This blog is dedicated to sharing the concept that our hands are essential to learning- that we engage the world and its wonders, sensing and creating primarily through the agency of our hands. We abandon our children to education in boredom and intellectual escapism by failing to engage their hands in learning and making.
Friday, December 14, 2007
This morning teacher Pete and I divided the students into teams of two for making cars. The purpose of this was to encourage cooperation in the design, and to reinforce of course the real world concept of working in teams. That is hard for some who would rather work on their own, but we all know that many wonderful things come when we work closely with others on the completion of a task. The photo above shows Colter with a finished car, and below you see the class with the proceeds of the morning's work.
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