Making things… Learning Things
"I am convinced that the best learning takes place when the learner takes charge…" –Seymour Papert
It's effortless to hop onto social media, whatever social media you interact with (for me it's primarily Twitter, Medium, WordPress, and news sources), and read through stories and ideas created by other people. In fact, I 'found' myself the other day after work having spent about 90 minutes straight on social media. But many other... Continue Reading →
During the summer of 2016, I read this book (left) edited by Yasmin Kafai and Mitch Resnick. I was inspired by Chapter 4 (called Learning Design by Making Games). In it, Kafai described her study in which a group of 4th grade students spent one hour per day (over a six-month period) writing, designing and... Continue Reading →
Royan Lee (@royanlee) is using student facilitators during his session at this year's ECOO conference in Richmond Hill. In fact, it seems appropriate that I blog about this because I am sitting here now in the middle of his session at ECOO. He brought with him ten student facilitators, all from classes he teaches, to... Continue Reading →
I had a great conversation with some middle school teachers recently. They have been using Kidblog to encourage their students to share ideas, thoughts, and reflections with the rest of the class. It has been working well but one teacher brought up the point that there always seems to be a subset of her students... Continue Reading →
Making things... Learning Things 