Introduction to Education: Looking Forward and Looking Back on Education

Week #4

Topics

• Schooling America presentation and Current Events

Activities

• Writing Activity

Assignments

• Straw Towers Part I and Part II (Draft due: Week #4; Finale due Week #6)

  • Building Straw Towers presentation (PDF)  (Courtesy of Susan Yoon. Used with permission.)

  • Straw Towers and Learning Environments summary (PDF)

  • Towers will be judged on: originality, hurricane resistance (using a fan), and height (to the top)

  • Straw Towers Results

  

  The results of the Straw Towers activity are written on the board. (Image courtesy of Eric Klopfer and Wendy Huang.)

Readings

• [Learn] = Chapter 4: How Children Learn and Chapter 6: The Design of Learning Environments.
• Polman, Joseph L., and Roy D. Pea. “Transformative Communication as a Cultural Tool for Guided Inquiry.” Science Education 85, no. 3 (2001): 223–38.
• [Schooling] = Chapter 1 summary.