But it also brought to mind a cartoon John Golden drew for me after I shared with him a talk I heard at a leadership conference at the University of Michigan's School of Education. This was before Twitter, so he had to wait until I drove back from Ann Arbor to tell him about it. I do not remember who the speaker was, but I do remember the message: we need to be figuring out what learners are saying and not the other way around.
The idea that "The question the child answers, she always answers correctly" goes back to Jean Piaget. Piaget says that Seymour Papert said it and Papert gives credit to Piaget.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Gary. This affirms that we know (and have known) how to support learning for a long time. Why is it that the majority of schools ignore this wisdom and focus on right answers?
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