Maggie sent this very interesting link from Andrew Sullivan’s blog:
http://www.freakonomics.com/2011/11/02/the-way-we-teach-math-and-language-is-wrong/
Jeffrey Sachs was asked what the difference between people in Norway and in the U.S. was. He responded that people in Norway are happy and
Admins don’t actually read the research. They don’t have time. If or when they do read it, they do not really grasp it. How could
I got a question: “Hi Ben, I am preparing some documents that support CI teaching to show my administrators. I looked through the blog and
A teacher contacted me awhile back. She had been attacked about using CI from a team leader. I told her to get some research from
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4 thoughts on “Andrew Sullivan”
This is good…
“If we learned our first language like we usually learn second languages, it might look like this. A young child says, “I am hungry.” The parent replies, “Wait! Before saying am, you first must learn to conjugate to be in all persons and number, in the indicative, imperative, and subjunctive moods, and in the past, perfect, and future tenses.” After a few months, or maybe weeks, of this teaching, the child would conclude that it has no aptitude for languages and become mute. And human culture would perish in a generation.”
I think this guy’s experience with language learning illustrates perfectly the intrinsic motivation factor. I believe it’s power trumps even the best methodology. (But not the crushing factor of poverty, as Krashen often points out.)
I clicked on one of the links and was taken to an interesting video about teaching physics using “street fighting reasoning” rather than “rigor [mortis]” style precision.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CdbBHzw8yQ
I think I’ll share it with my colleagues and administrators. 🙂
I’m a fan of Sir Ken Robinson and came across this: http://juergenkurtz.wordpress.com/2011/10/14/sir-ken-robinson-bring-on-the-learning-revolution/
The video in the link I shared, you can either watch the whole thing, which is good, or at least start at 14:20. He says something that we TPRSers know all about he says “when we look at reforming education and transforming it…its about customizing it…personalizing education to the people you’re actually teaching”