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“Dutch designer Tomáš Gabzdil Libertiny built a glass vitrine and suspended this martyred figure in the middle during Design Miami/Basel 2010 back in June. He then released 40,000 worker bees over the course of the event to create a wax honeycomb structure over the figure. Libertiny infused the figure with a natural red pigment that tinted the entire honeycomb structure red. This came to represent flesh and blood.”
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You will all need this later.
exactly how the end of the semester feels
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“Imagine, for instance, a third-grade classroom that was free of the laundry list of goals currently harnessing our teachers and students, and that was devoted instead to just a few narrowly defined and deeply focused goals.
In this classroom, children would spend two hours each day hearing stories read aloud, reading aloud themselves, telling stories to one another and reading on their own. After all, the first step to literacy is simply being immersed, through conversation and storytelling, in a reading environment; the second is to read a lot and often. A school day where every child is given ample opportunities to read and discuss books would give teachers more time to help those students who need more instruction in order to become good readers.
Children would also spend an hour a day writing things that have actual meaning to them — stories, newspaper articles, captions for cartoons, letters to one another. People write best when they use writing to think and to communicate, rather than to get a good grade.
In our theoretical classroom, children would also spend a short period of time each day practicing computation — adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing. Once children are proficient in those basics they would be free to turn to other activities that are equally essential for math and science: devising original experiments, observing the natural world and counting things, whether they be words, events or people. These are all activities children naturally love, if given a chance to do them in a genuine way.”
Brilliant op-ed about education. I rarely read things that I feel this excited about from start to finish.
Raindrop on butterfly wing
Nikon Small World - Gallery - Image of Distinction, 2009 - Karie Holtermann
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