CMK08 Day 3




Bob Tinker

You can put kids in front of a computer, project, etc. but until you give them guidance and motivation no magic.  He believes in guided inquiry.  They have to be on the right path to stumble upon the facts and discoveries we want for them.  There is a trap- you fall into instructivism.  It is much easier to tell them.

He is in the Concord Consortium.  They are strongly committed to open source and free resources.

He is totally excited about his content, and I am not so much.  As my mind wanders, I am going to guess that the way I feel right now is how many of my students feel when I wax on about poetry or sentence structure or paragraph organization.

This also convicts me that I am too one dimensional and should be more interested on multi-curricular opportunities for my class and my students.  Things to think about.

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