Please type in the "reply" section below effective and in-effective learning experiences. If it is negative, please keep names and identifying details out of it. It is the experience itself I need, not a venting forum for teachers you have hated :D. (Yes, I am protecting myself...j/k!) Bring it on! (I thought the cats would generate some discussion if nothing else...Spencer??)
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As I read through"Norms and Nobility," Piaget's "The Child" and Dewey's "Experience and Education," I keep coming back to why the Vanguard Method is so effective in creating a whole learning experience. David Bednar captured the heart of what whole or complete education is when he outlined the process in his book "Increase in Learning." Simply put, the learning process is as follows: --Knowledge: information acquired without context --Understanding: information taken, considered and given context, allowing the individual to make meaningful connections with the knowledge --Intelligence: once that understanding it taken within, an individual should be given agency and accountability to act on that understanding to create intelligence.* Piaget references the power of this method of learning when suggesting that "socialization" (see post on "Piaget: The Child" ) as a component of mental development requires that t...
Conclusion : Learning and intelligence are not just generated from environment or from nature but a combination of both. This supports what Dewey says in his "Experience and Education" where he warns those who are trying to pull away from what he calls "traditional education" by simply creating an education everything that traditional education is not . His definition of traditional education is one that is rote memorization and reverence of the past without room for personal input, exploration or contribution. He contrasts that approach with "progressive education" which is exclusively centered upon individual experience and interpretation of data without any reference to the "restricting mentality" of the past. I will go deeper into his ideas later, but superficially he warns against thinking about education in extremes or absolutes, which goes along with Piaget's conclusions. ------- Other interesting points: DIVERSE EXPOSURE IN...