Showing posts with label ghost sign. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ghost sign. Show all posts

Thursday, December 20, 2018

Observation and curiosity

If you look closely, and are curious, learning happens.

New input + questions = new hooks to hang other information on.

Look at the image on the building. It's a parachute, with a zia. Why? Come and see how a collection can branch off and curl back, touching on unexpected people, places, times and ideas.

Zias and Pickups (on facebook)

Those without facebook access might want to
play around with one of these collections of connections:
ziathings.blogspot.com
wheelbarrowthings.blogspot.com
thinkingsticks.blogspot.com
photo by Brie Jontry; click it for a larger image

Wednesday, April 15, 2015

The language they hear and see


With unschooling, children will learn from the language you use and they use, from the words they see around them, from using games and computers, from signing greeting cards or playing with words. There's no need for any school-style structure at all. For those who have wondered about phonics and reading and spelling, please don't press that on your children.

SandraDodd.com/phonics
photo by Sandra Dodd, of a ghost sign in Texas
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Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Do it

Do it,
      and do it,
            and quietly do it.

Dunn ghost sign on an old brick building

SandraDodd.com/doit
photo by Sandra Dodd

Friday, December 16, 2011

A million-piece puzzle

Today I'm quoting something Joyce Fetteroll wrote on Always Learning yesterday:

The way schools get academics into kids goes against how we're naturally wired to learn. It's very hard for humans to memorize someone else's understanding of the world and then make sense of it. That's why it takes so long in school. It's why kids can "pass" classes and yet still have little practical understanding of what's been pushed in their heads.
We're hard wired to pull understanding out of life. We're pattern seeking creatures. Natural learning often doesn't look like much of anything from the outside. But it's like working on a million-piece jigsaw puzzle. Kids are working here and there, jumping all over the place, spending a chunk of time in one area, then seemingly abandoning it for another. It doesn't look like progress. But by the time they're teens, the connections they've been creating between all the areas they've been working on shows. And it's not a bunch of memorized facts (that will fade) but a deeper understanding of how things work.

Whereas the kids in school have been told what pieces to put where and how to put them in, to drop that interesting piece because it's not part of the curriculum. By the time they hit middle school most are ready to slam the door on the puzzle and have nothing more to do with it.
—Joyce Fetteroll

SandraDodd.com/connections
photo by Sandra Dodd, and it's a link