relevance

May 8, 2012 (Rare Discoveries Week)

1990s, Computers, Constructionism, Epistemology, Learning, Mathematics, Project-based learning, School Reform, Teaching / By

“So there are other ways, through this computer system that have opened up, that enable somebody to get knowledge when you need it. Now this leads to, not only to a radically different idea of what kind of knowledge it is, because there’s nothing numerical and nothing about fractions in the description of the parabola …

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February 3, 2011

1990s, Learning, Teaching, uncategorized / By

“I contrast this with a sex education class I witnessed in a school. Teacher produces a diagram showing the plumbing of human genitalia and gives a lesson full of physiological information. I could almost hear him ticking off in his mind the “content” that has to be “covered” in the lesson plan. Meechai didn’t teach …

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