February 24, 2016

Artist Insight

The tripod in my classroom that the artist draws on was faced so that the artist’s back was to me and the class. We could see what she was drawing, but she couldn’t see what I was doing. I turned the tripod so that the artist could face me. That has helped with the problem […]

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Sandbox Seating

About a month ago John brought up the subject of Socratic circles in CI classes. We were trying to figure out if seating arrangements similar to circles could help at all, although certainly not in the real Socratic way which can’t be done in our field. It was Sean whose comment on this topic let

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Word Bubbles

I’m starting to see the story not in linear terms (first we create the story, then we read it, then we do all the ROA activities) but in spatial terms, where all the activities that we can do with a story, and there is a ton of them, can be tagged onto the story in

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