Sunday, November 21, 2010

Additional Assignment #5

Tom Johnsons Adventures in Pencil Integration
This is a great way to teach children!! Life in general is confusing so children need to be exposed at looking at everything in life from several different angles; so I believe that a metaphor is an excellent thing to teach children. The metaphor of the pencil compared to the middle school children was very well described and very true. The middle school children are up one day and down the next just like how a pencil can write dark black and then be gray! These are totally different things that one person and pencil can do. In “He just likes the class for the pencils” was very moving. The child loved the class because she was respected and the teacher listened to him we need to respect all of the children and they will all love the class for the “pencils”. In “The medium shapes the learning” we see that mediums shapes what we are trying to teach our children.

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