ThinkBox - Ideasys
Let's read quotes from slides
Predict the future
"you can change today, so you can own tomorrow"... pause...
as if we need to think some more on that
What does it mean to learn?
(this is a room full of educators. We know all the things learning can be)
Lane's ThinkBox info
The irony of this info is that at the top of the graphic of the box that holds all her tools, Lane has written "think outside the box"
Lane has just suggested that doing "animal projects" with children is not the best way for us to teach them because it is not real world and as adults we don't do animal projects. Animal projects are real world for kids, because kids are interested in animals. I think it is the process of doing the "project" that is real world learning... transferable.
Okay, so encourage students to create questions as they are learning, but how are they learning the content in the meantime in order to ask those questions.
So, Lane looked at friends photos two years ago and wasn't interested because she said it wasn't relevant to her. Then when she wanted to go to those places she wanted to see the photos because they were now relevant. Yet she started her "lecture" telling us about being life-long learners. My question is: If she is a life-long learner, why wasn't she interested two years ago?
Doesn't the term life-long learner imply curiosity and a continuously inquiring mind?
So this is a session on the process of inquiry based learning.
Lots of good practical "tools" for the inquiry process.
However, it is really a promo for her thinkbox products.
Once again, a keynote speaker tell us that this generation will lead change and will be more advanced than ever. Isn't that the nature of each new generation, since the beginning of time?
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