Is Free Play In Childhood The Solution To Our Partisan Politics?
New York Times
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9/1/18
“The constant presence of adults is intended to keep children safe, but what are its likely effects? How might kids deprived of opportunities for free play, risk-taking and self-governance differ from previous generations when they leave the nest? We would expect two main areas of difficulty.”
One Method For Convening Class Discussions Of A Text
Cult of Pedagogy
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8/26/18
“When they arrive in class, students get into small groups, where they have 15 minutes to share thoughts, lingering questions, and epiphanies (TQEs) they have about the reading… By the time the 15 minutes is up, each group needs to choose their top 2 TQEs from the group and write them on the board… Thompson then moderates a whole-class discussion of the reading, using the TQEs that have been written on the board. This takes about 40 minutes of class time.”
"The Best Experts Sometimes Make The Worst Educators”
New York Times
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8/25/18
“It wasn't that they didn't care about teaching. It was that they knew too much about their subject, and had mastered it too long ago, to relate to my ignorance about it.”