I'm going to take the twitter approach to the rest of the book, "Making Learning Whole" By David Perkins. I'll take the authors sage advice (pg 219 and also somewhere in the beginning) "do not read this book too closely". I feel that is exactly what I have done, although interesting and through enough, I'll stay true to the sprit with which this book was written and try the 140 character summaries.
I left off at the Chapter; Play Out of Town....Shepard the transfer of learning, ZOPD is real, necessary and effective, learn to do by doing, ask, "where else is today's learning useful?"
Chapter 5; Uncover the Hidden Games....all lrnng has hidden aspects, dimensions, perspectives, 4ex; hidden strategies, causal thnkng, inquiry, powr. Games hide n simplicity, "good enough", almost unconscious knowledge, readiness, so...empower learners to uncover the games
Chapter 6; Learn From the Team....+other teams, participation structures...including wkshp model. We are social animals, Vygotsky=social scaffolding....rule: "Hardly anyone does anything solo for long." How can paring learners and learning in groups serve learning?
Finally, Chapter 7; Learn the Game of Learning...learn how to learn=putting lrnrs in the driver's seat, avoid the shallow 4 shallow's sake=avoid the passenger seat (i.e just the facts and skills), go for deep=reaching for comp, learning the game of learning=name and label the games as they happen...games accessible to students
In the end I think Dr. Perkin's advice was well taken...even though I read the book closely, trying to stick to the 140 character summary, (and I didn't always make it... ) helped me visualize the big rocks. More advice...pick a place to start...his advice...play the whole game.
I left off at the Chapter; Play Out of Town....Shepard the transfer of learning, ZOPD is real, necessary and effective, learn to do by doing, ask, "where else is today's learning useful?"
Chapter 5; Uncover the Hidden Games....all lrnng has hidden aspects, dimensions, perspectives, 4ex; hidden strategies, causal thnkng, inquiry, powr. Games hide n simplicity, "good enough", almost unconscious knowledge, readiness, so...empower learners to uncover the games
Chapter 6; Learn From the Team....+other teams, participation structures...including wkshp model. We are social animals, Vygotsky=social scaffolding....rule: "Hardly anyone does anything solo for long." How can paring learners and learning in groups serve learning?
Finally, Chapter 7; Learn the Game of Learning...learn how to learn=putting lrnrs in the driver's seat, avoid the shallow 4 shallow's sake=avoid the passenger seat (i.e just the facts and skills), go for deep=reaching for comp, learning the game of learning=name and label the games as they happen...games accessible to students
In the end I think Dr. Perkin's advice was well taken...even though I read the book closely, trying to stick to the 140 character summary, (and I didn't always make it... ) helped me visualize the big rocks. More advice...pick a place to start...his advice...play the whole game.
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