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Kineticult
Move along, there's something to see here... | |
There is a school of thought that children and even possibly adults learn via kinetic motion.
At the same time:
1) A famous old Greek mneumonic technique requires that you visualize ideas which are placed along a path in some familiar setting
2) Students and people (still) can't congregate anywhere
safely except for possibly outdoors.
3) One recent British study claims that people who walk more have remarkably healthier hearts.
So...in this school of thought, each day's lesson should take place while the students are hiking somewhere. Signposts are placed along the path, in dramatically different sizes and shapes, to match the Greek mneumonic technique. The signposts have the same topical theme, front and back, so the class can review them on their hike back.
I was going to say something funny, but there is nothing funny about today's education.
Reminded slightly of this
3D_20Study_20Maze
[4and20, Mar 05 2021]
Forest school
https://www.forests...t-is-forest-school/
[pocmloc, Mar 05 2021]
Burma Shave ref
Corona_20Burma_20Shave
[xenzag, Mar 05 2021]
[link]
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I always take my students for walk and talk and
draw sessions. A lot of good work starts this way. |
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Harder for practical sessions requiring large equipment (retort and bunsen burner on a little wheel-along trolley?) |
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"Why do our kids know so much about Burma Shave?" |
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Great reference. At first I thought Burma Shave was a song title or lyric. Technically, it is a song by Tom Waits. |
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I have a feeling that there is a lot of process-prescriptive specialization in schools. I sometimes struggle to express myself in simple English, but this Forest School has too many process-oriented buzzwords, even if it's only a matter of marketing. There's nothing greatly new in the idea in general, so why isn't it widespread as a COVID-era alternative, evolving eventually into a better standard than soporific old classrooms? |
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//Technically, it is a song by Tom Waits// Burma Shave was referred to in a song by Tom Waits, but it was actually a marketing exercise that involved the positioning of a series of signs along American highways. I posted an idea that uses the same principle last year on the halfbakery. (see link when I find it) |
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+ i like it (although i misread it as *kinetikilt*) |
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Sounds a lot like Connecticut to me. Too much like it. Like
living there in a cult or something. Some sort of blood-
drinking left-wing cult people, maybe. Also, you mentioned
children. Are you sure you aren't related to Qanon? |
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Mnemonic: to do with memory
Pneumonic: to do with lungs |
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Take a deep breath and try to remember the difference. |
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