tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3958281833470249056.post3321658128065195957..comments2023-06-23T01:26:40.976-07:00Comments on Visibly Learning in the Early Years: Toys, Science & SOLO; Classifying With 5 Year OldsBridgetCassehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04902631355879245396noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3958281833470249056.post-70227279547693674632019-11-23T14:03:03.682-08:002019-11-23T14:03:03.682-08:00Hey Bridget,
My name is Naomi Toland and I am a ...Hey Bridget, <br /><br />My name is Naomi Toland and I am a teacher in Stonefields School, Auckland. I was looking on Twitter today and growing my network of educators in New Zealand and I came across your learning. <br /><br />I love your findings and research into visible learning and how we can empower learners especially by growing student voice. <br /><br />I wanted to share some of my learning as well as I have similar passions and I have been interviewing people this year to share on my youtube channel - you can check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCv6tX_ugENm0xVZDj-oEFAg?view_as=subscriber<br /><br />I have interviewed teachers and students as well as people who are researching education and neuroscience for example I interviewed John Hattie and Nathan Wallis over the past few months. <br /><br />I am having a networking evening this Thursday in Speights, Stonefields and I thought you might be interested in attending. We strive to make learning fun for our kids so I want to make learning fun for us bigger kids too!! Let's learn together in an interactive, social setting! Here is the link to find out more: bit. http://bit.ly/nerdyneuro<br /><br />Look forward to hearing from you! Thanks for your sharing!! create educatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18169227535380177308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3958281833470249056.post-75770167029234914012015-05-13T23:42:49.584-07:002015-05-13T23:42:49.584-07:00Lovely post Bridget - using classification to look...Lovely post Bridget - using classification to look for similarities between diverse objects - living, non-living and dead (once living) is great activity when thinking like a scientist about living and non living things.<br /><br />I wonder what will happen when you introduce more examples of plants into the mix given young children's misconceptions about plants. <br /><br />Indeed how would your Junior team teachers categorise a fruit that has been removed from a plant - a freshly picked banana, pear, avocado or tomato? Is it living or dead - after all it continues to change colour and respire after it is picked? And why? Plastic is made from petroleum (fossil fuel derivatives) the end product of a few million years of natural decay of once-living organisms - early plastics were made from plants (biomass) also check out bioplastics - can you make an argument for plastic as a once living thing? Do we need to create a categories for - Living - Non-living but once part of living thing and Non-living and never part of a living thing<br /><br />This Scientic American article is pretty cool - <a href="www.scientificamerican.com/article/dont-know-much-biology/" rel="nofollow">Don't Know Much Biology: Our Trouble Classifying the Living World - Learning to categorize the life on our planet is surprisingly difficult for the human mind</a><br /><i>Children may be natural-born taxonomists, but they are not all that good at it. That is because they have a deep-wired urge to see the world as designed and simple—and to be at the center of it all. Apparently that impulse never entirely goes away. </i>Pamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11030033180999459337noreply@blogger.com