Vincent 'Zac has been acting really stupid lately.'
Me 'Hmmm?'
Vincent 'He never wants to get out of bed for school, you have NO IDEA how hard it is for dad to get him out of bed!'
A moment's pause.
'Oh, maybe you do...'
I asked about other ways Zac was acting stupid, or whether it was just the morning thing. He said 'Oh, he is fine the rest of the time. As long as dad doesn't ask him to do anything.'
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Book List
Some interesting books dr Plato has mentioned which I am looking forward to reading some time soon. In my spare time indeed. Sharing for W and whoever else is interested.
Anyone read any of these books? If so, please let me know whether you liked them.
- Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are by Joseph LeDoux
- Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School by John Medina (Author)
- My last note says 'What goes on in there' in my notes, but I can't find a book by that title. I did find What's Going on in There? : How the Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years of Life by Lise Eliot.
Anyone read any of these books? If so, please let me know whether you liked them.
Sunday, May 2, 2010
Four Levels of Learning
A list which dr Plato shared with me. Very interesting.
Levels of learning from lowest to highest:
1. FACTS - this is information gathered from books, the internet, anything one reads. You don't need to go out in the world to learn this way. Anyone can do it with little need for social interaction.
2. SOCIAL LEARNING - this is information one gains from others, often by their own personal experience. For example someone tells about hiking Mt Washington and the trail maintenance they were doing there as a team. The learner lives vicariously through the other person's experiences.
3. EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING - this is doing things, it involves the full sensory, emotional and cognitive experience. This could be hiking in the woods, it could be volunteering for trail maintenance or at the Humane Society. It can be anything that one actually experiences first hand.
4. EXPERT - when one reaches a high level of learning, then one is able to go out and teach others effectively at the vicarious learning level. The best experts can convey their experience to many different type of learners. The ability to convey their experience to all of these brain modalities often results in motivating students to the experienal learning level and beyond.
This was from Penny's evaluation. It is followed by the statement that Penny's learning has accelerated because she has moved beyond the first level. Hower she does not fully recognize or appreciate this phenomen. She will slowly but surely achieve this if her social anxiety does not cause her to retreat back to homeschooling.
As an aside, I find it interesting to see that even dr Plato doesn't recognize how much social learning there is in homeschooling. Even he still seems to think that homeschooled kids are at home all the time, he doesn't see the rich environment which is created by homeschool groups with many levels of learning and many different aged kids. But that is not what this post is about, I wanted to share the four levels of learning and the fact that all learning is social (if one wants to reach a higher level than just reading about it that is).
I haven't posted much, not because nothing is happening, but because of being swamped. I feel more on top of things than I did even a few months ago though. Which is good because I still am juggling so many balls and dropping some all the darned time.
Today I printed out the hardiness / heartiness vision statement and hung it on the family room wall so I can refer to it till my kids get sick of it and will just do it to shut me up. Penny and Baby Bear both have told me that they prefer to call it character instead of hardiness which is just fine with me. As long as they work on it.
Levels of learning from lowest to highest:
1. FACTS - this is information gathered from books, the internet, anything one reads. You don't need to go out in the world to learn this way. Anyone can do it with little need for social interaction.
2. SOCIAL LEARNING - this is information one gains from others, often by their own personal experience. For example someone tells about hiking Mt Washington and the trail maintenance they were doing there as a team. The learner lives vicariously through the other person's experiences.
3. EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING - this is doing things, it involves the full sensory, emotional and cognitive experience. This could be hiking in the woods, it could be volunteering for trail maintenance or at the Humane Society. It can be anything that one actually experiences first hand.
4. EXPERT - when one reaches a high level of learning, then one is able to go out and teach others effectively at the vicarious learning level. The best experts can convey their experience to many different type of learners. The ability to convey their experience to all of these brain modalities often results in motivating students to the experienal learning level and beyond.
This was from Penny's evaluation. It is followed by the statement that Penny's learning has accelerated because she has moved beyond the first level. Hower she does not fully recognize or appreciate this phenomen. She will slowly but surely achieve this if her social anxiety does not cause her to retreat back to homeschooling.
As an aside, I find it interesting to see that even dr Plato doesn't recognize how much social learning there is in homeschooling. Even he still seems to think that homeschooled kids are at home all the time, he doesn't see the rich environment which is created by homeschool groups with many levels of learning and many different aged kids. But that is not what this post is about, I wanted to share the four levels of learning and the fact that all learning is social (if one wants to reach a higher level than just reading about it that is).
I haven't posted much, not because nothing is happening, but because of being swamped. I feel more on top of things than I did even a few months ago though. Which is good because I still am juggling so many balls and dropping some all the darned time.
Today I printed out the hardiness / heartiness vision statement and hung it on the family room wall so I can refer to it till my kids get sick of it and will just do it to shut me up. Penny and Baby Bear both have told me that they prefer to call it character instead of hardiness which is just fine with me. As long as they work on it.
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