Comments on: Chaos vs Coherent http://www.thethinkingstick.com/chaos-vs-coherent-2 Jeff Utecht - Bangkok, Thailand Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:47:21 +0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Michele http://www.thethinkingstick.com/chaos-vs-coherent-2/comment-page-1#comment-24958 Michele Fri, 27 Jul 2007 16:41:39 +0000 http://www.thethinkingstick.com/?p=500#comment-24958 At the end of this school year, my principal informed me that the standardized scores in science were low and needed to inprove. However, our students do well when they transitioned to high schools. Infact, most of our students tested into honors science classes. So, I need to find a balance between chaos and coherent. In my science classes, I encourage the students to investigate different subject matters by using hands-on experiments and make their own conclusions without concern of being right or wrong. TAKE A RISK. On the other hand, I am trying to please my principal by improving skills like data interpretation and test taking by using the computer lab. There are sites to improve standardized test scores. So, I feel there needs to be a balance between chaos and coherence to encourage learning and accountability. At the end of this school year, my principal informed me that the standardized scores in science were low and needed to inprove. However, our students do well when they transitioned to high schools. Infact, most of our students tested into honors science classes. So, I need to find a balance between chaos and coherent. In my science classes, I encourage the students to investigate different subject matters by using hands-on experiments and make their own conclusions without concern of being right or wrong. TAKE A RISK. On the other hand, I am trying to please my principal by improving skills like data interpretation and test taking by using the computer lab. There are sites to improve standardized test scores. So, I feel there needs to be a balance between chaos and coherence to encourage learning and accountability.

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]]> By: Jonathan Edson http://www.thethinkingstick.com/chaos-vs-coherent-2/comment-page-1#comment-24481 Jonathan Edson Thu, 17 May 2007 15:54:37 +0000 http://www.thethinkingstick.com/?p=500#comment-24481 Jeff -- I really appreciate your post and in some ways think the Genie is out of the bottle already. I blogged myself about the incipient potential for search to render the idea of "curriculum" much different from our current understanding (carmun.typepad.com). As students increasingly study with Internet-enabled machines as their companions -- their imaginations and the search box make it very hard to control what they will learn and in what order -- and to my mind this is awesome. Jeff — I really appreciate your post and in some ways think the Genie is out of the bottle already. I blogged myself about the incipient potential for search to render the idea of “curriculum” much different from our current understanding (carmun.typepad.com). As students increasingly study with Internet-enabled machines as their companions — their imaginations and the search box make it very hard to control what they will learn and in what order — and to my mind this is awesome.

]]> By: David Gran http://www.thethinkingstick.com/chaos-vs-coherent-2/comment-page-1#comment-24459 David Gran Wed, 16 May 2007 14:54:00 +0000 http://www.thethinkingstick.com/?p=500#comment-24459 Jeff- I'd highly recommend the book "The Dialectic of Freedom" by Maxine Greene. She's a brilliant educator who talks about these issues in great depth. She referred to classrooms that allowed for the sort of controlled chaos that you're talking about as an "Open Space" - a place where students are free to explore answers to their own questions within a certain framework. These 'spaces' create a context for learning in which students are empowered to imagine new possibilities. It is perhaps, one of the best books on education theory I've read. Jeff-

I’d highly recommend the book “The Dialectic of Freedom” by Maxine Greene. She’s a brilliant educator who talks about these issues in great depth. She referred to classrooms that allowed for the sort of controlled chaos that you’re talking about as an “Open Space” – a place where students are free to explore answers to their own questions within a certain framework. These ’spaces’ create a context for learning in which students are empowered to imagine new possibilities. It is perhaps, one of the best books on education theory I’ve read.

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