learn by doing.
self - organized learning:
Robin Hood School - negotiated learning
1) passion projects, hour everyday, but regurgitation of content, ie: that looks cool so all the boys would do that
2) scaffolded projects, planning, doing, sharing/reflecting, but spent a lot of time in organizational talk, we haven't done what we said we would do
3) provocation projects, give them something that will challenge them, lot of people thought this was mad, basically play, this showed if play is appropriately challenging and engaging, problem in supplying the challenge
let kids do what they wanted to do, listen to them, let them go off in tangents
not:
1) telling them, what would you like to do as a topic, and then planning the whole thing
2) asking what questions they have and then planning lessons with the answers
but
let children self-organize,
personally, that's what works best for us.... own the learning
[this was all in his great post here, with embedded video above and great post here]
i responded to his request in original post:
over the course of the last two years, especially this year in the lab, we've gone through several girations similar to your passion, planning, and provocation projects.
what we've been experimenting with,
in regard to focusing on resources that matter, namely people,
and in regard to a basis for self-organization.
kid voices
ok. good enough.
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