Saturday, March 26, 2011

Whose job is it anyway?

I woke this morning and found this tweet from Alfie Kohn in my Twitter Stream:
It immediately reminded me of the article I wrote with my GVSU colleague, Dr. Pamela Wells - Are They Wrong? Or Did They Just Answer a Different Question?

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.
So what is your paradigm?

2 comments:

  1. 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.

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  2. Thanks, 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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