Robert Paterson: ChildrenWhy are so many having trouble at school and in life generally? What can we do about this? What is the opportunity of the Early Years?Blogging and Education - eBay- August 29, 2003 Enrollment for the media courses at our community college is way down this year. Is this part of the dot-com fallout or is something more going on What is on offer is a one year full time class based course that costs $10,000 and teaches you to create web pages. I asked my blogging friends on PEI, none of whom are older than 24 and most younger and all of whom are experts in web based communication, - note I did not say experts in web creation.- to tell me how they learned to be so good. They..http://radio.weblogs.com/0107127/categories/children/2003/08/29.html#a752 (Untitled)- August 14, 2003 Missing the Librarians for the Trees. The Myth of Generation N "For decades, social scientists and technologists have alternatively predicted the emergence of 'computer kids' or a 'net generatio'&148;&151;a cohort of children, teenagers, and young adults who have been immersed in digital technology and the digital way of thinking since their conception. This new generation, the thinking went, would be everything that their parents weren&146;t when it came to technology: They would know...http://radio.weblogs.com/0107127/categories/children/2003/08/14.html#a731 Boys in trouble at school - Trouble for all of us- August 13, 2003 I had coffee with a colleague yesterday who has a 7 year old son.. We were talking about education - specifically about the poor literacy rates on PEI. She works at our Community College we are working to find better ways of remediating this problem. But then we turned personal and I asked her how her son was doing. He is 7. A month into grade 1, she was told that shehe had a problem. Her son was too active. Here is a dialogue from another page but I think it sums up what she...http://radio.weblogs.com/0107127/categories/children/2003/08/13.html#a729 Learning and Games- August 6, 2003 I had lunch with Dan and Steve yesterday and one of the items we talked about was why boys are so turned off by school. Our bottom line that real learning was as much about motivation as any other factor. Becoming expert at something seemed linked to motivation. Is this why boys like games so much Is there a lesson for so called educators like me Jeremy Hiebert has some great stuff on learning and play. I read last week that boys are starting to turn away from action flicks. The stated reason...http://www.hatrack.com/osc/books/ender.shtml Marriage - Another Ptolemaic Construct- August 6, 2003 As the debate about Gay Marriage builds, I wonder what is the "natural state of marriage". Much of what I read in our local paper righteously informs me that Jesus, God and the church determine what marriage is all about. In short in this view, marriage is a union of one man and one woman whose role is to have children. Just for fun, let's explore the history of the union of adults a bit further than the few thousand year perspective that the CW allows for. For most of the 4 million years that.http://radio.weblogs.com/0107127/categories/children/2003/08/06.html#a712 Kane on Education- August 5, 2003 "The last obvious policy is in education. There is already a gathering counter-consensus in the UK around educational reform, led by voices like Tom Bentley of Demos, CreativeNet and the Scottish Council Foundation: they want to stop "factory schools turning out factory minds". The creative child can imagine new problems (rather than have them handed down to them); mingles ideas easily from one realm to another; makes mistakes, as long as they lead to more interesting solutions, and focuses on..http://www.theplayethic.com/pages/654103/index.htm What is going on with Boys and Men in Education- August 5, 2003 There is a North American problem for boys and school. Boys are doing very badly in the education system. But on PEI, we have reached a crisis. We have the highest drop rate for males in high school at 22.6%. Male literacy is in the basement. In 1998 82% of females could read at a level 3 compared to only 60% for boys. Way below the national average. In a 2001 survey of grade 12 - 62% of females said that they planned to attend university. Only 42% of boys made the same claim...http://charlottetown.cityfilter.org/ Innocent summers - Where have they gone- August 4, 2003 Games People Play On Summer Evenings I was trying to tell someone this weekend about the summers I spent as a kid in a really rural place with a gang of cohorts my age, no TV, bikes, rowboats, catamarans, pogo sticks, Monopoly, playing cards, dogs, flip flops and a lot of penny candy from the general store in town. It's hard to explain -- seems to be a childhood completely lost these days -- one that can never exist again. We had enormous freedom. We were outside all day and a good part of the..http://halleyscomment.blogspot.com/2003_08_03_halleyscomment_archive.html#1059965167096879... |