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A Teaching/Learning Lexicon: To Instruct, to Show, to Lead
Summary: A return to fundamental constructs of teaching and learning. All this talk about NCLB (last week’s post), and how directives from the feds may or may not be successful in steering the educational ship of state, leaves me wandering … Continue reading
Teaching/Learning Lexicon: “Education” as Cultural Artifact
Today I find myself meditating on the word “education”. In some ways I avoid a more comprehensive set of topics that I will get around to, I suppose. But also a workshop earlier today and an article read this evening … Continue reading
Teaching/Learning Lexicon: “Explain” and “Guide”
Summary: This post extends the “Lexicon” of teaching and learning introduced 8/23/11. It may be useful to review that post before diving into what follows….. Here be the introductory paragraph from the 8/23/11 post, which sets the groundwork for this … Continue reading
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Teaching/Learning Lexicon: A Paradoxical Implementation
Though my last post, “Teaching/Learning Lexicon: An Introduction”, was some part whimsy and some part semantic history, at my high school the concepts in that last piece are embodied, paradoxically, in a data driven effort by our ninth and tenth … Continue reading
A Teaching/Learning Lexicon: Introduction
More by whimsy at first, but later by design, a number of years ago I began examining the derivations of words such as “teach”, and “learn”, and followed their origins into associations themselves derived from my experience teaching, and from … Continue reading
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