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Re: Mary says...

Marina Bers 15 Sep 2009 02:40
in discussion What Additions Do We Want For The Workshop Program / Discussion of Other People's Relevant Research » Mary says...

I am so sorry I won't be able to make it. It is a bad date since I need to teach on Thursday and Rosh Hashanah starts that Friday evening__ I have 20 people over for dinner after services ;-).

I am very much looking forward to be part of the discussion on-line…and I am honored that someone posted my book. You can get it through Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Blocks-Robots-Technology-Childhood-Classroom/dp/0807748471 (It is in stock).

Also, on my website I have several links to papers I wrote that my be relevant to the discussion
http://www.tufts.edu/~mbers01/

Have fun!

Marina

Re: A Tour

Tomarelli 15 Sep 2009 02:29
in discussion What Additions Do We Want For The Workshop Program / Do We Want to See the Purdue Child Lab Classroom? » A Tour

I think we can do it. We're finishing up the program and it looks like it should fit in; the main thing is to find a time when we'll need a break, but when the kids aren't eating or napping. The Lab School is just across the street from Burton Morgan, where we're meeting, so it isn't a major trek.

Re: We have a volunteer!

Tomarelli 15 Sep 2009 02:26
in discussion What Additions Do We Want For The Workshop Program / Discussion of Our Own Research in Progress » We have a volunteer!

Let's see if we can squish the program a little and fit you in. Would you mind if I add the articles to the Suggested Readings?

Re: Mary says...

Tomarelli 15 Sep 2009 02:24
in discussion What Additions Do We Want For The Workshop Program / Discussion of Other People's Relevant Research » Mary says...

I don't think so. We were hoping to have Marina herself, but she's unable to come this time. None of the readings are required. People have been proposing articles and books they think could be useful.

Oh, and Marina didn't propose her own book. ;-)

locating a book

Jean Mendoza 14 Sep 2009 17:00
in discussion What Additions Do We Want For The Workshop Program / Discussion of Other People's Relevant Research » Mary says...

We have not been able to get a copy yet of Marina Bers' book, though we were able to download a single chapter. Will there be copies available at the workshop?

Re: We have a volunteer!

Jean Mendoza 14 Sep 2009 15:35
in discussion What Additions Do We Want For The Workshop Program / Discussion of Our Own Research in Progress » We have a volunteer!

Here are the urls to 2 of the Project Approach reports mentioned above. Note that in the Katrina project, preschool age children whose lives were directly affected by the hurricane worked on such problems as how to construct a levee with accessible materials, and how to make structures that could not be blown down in a strong wind.

The Combine Project
http://ecrp.uiuc.edu/v3n1/wilson.html

Project Katrina
http://ecrp.uiuc.edu/v7n2/aghayan.html

Re: A Tour

Nancy Barbour 14 Sep 2009 15:18
in discussion What Additions Do We Want For The Workshop Program / Do We Want to See the Purdue Child Lab Classroom? » A Tour

I would also like to see the lab.

Re: We have a volunteer!

Jean Mendoza 14 Sep 2009 14:42
in discussion What Additions Do We Want For The Workshop Program / Discussion of Our Own Research in Progress » We have a volunteer!

If there is time and if it fits into the schedule, Lilian and I would be glad to talk about what we have seen in early childhood classrooms that use the Project Approach, as the children planned, designed, and constructed models of such things as a car and a combine. Children's use of observational sketches of such "objects" as locomotives might be of interest, too… But primarily, we think we have much to learn from what Purdue colleagues have been doing.

A Tour

Tomarelli 14 Sep 2009 01:16
in discussion What Additions Do We Want For The Workshop Program / Do We Want to See the Purdue Child Lab Classroom? » A Tour

Jean M. and Lilian want to see the lab School! Then so we shall. Anybody else want to go?

Ideas?

Tomarelli 20 Aug 2009 01:57
in discussion What Do We Want To Add To The Knack? / How Can We Improve the Website? » Ideas?

Bill Graziano says we need pictures of cute kids playing with blocks.

We have a volunteer!

Tomarelli 19 Aug 2009 02:41
in discussion What Additions Do We Want For The Workshop Program / Discussion of Our Own Research in Progress » We have a volunteer!

Molly Bolger is going to talk about her and Rich Lehrer's research. Brava, Molly!

Mary McMullin says...

Tomarelli 18 Aug 2009 15:33
in discussion What Additions Do We Want For The Workshop Program / Discussion of Other People's Relevant Research » Mary says...

…we need to discuss some methodological issues.

Re: Must be engineering students!

Tomarelli 17 Aug 2009 19:53
in discussion Humor / A Day Without Humor is a Day Without Sunshine! » Must be engineering students!

Alas, it must be computer engineering students, as this turns out to be a clever bit of film editing. Fun to watch, though.

Must be engineering students!

Tomarelli 09 Aug 2009 19:44
in discussion Humor / A Day Without Humor is a Day Without Sunshine! » Must be engineering students!

Who else would do the math?
http://www.todaysbigthing.com/2009/08/05?utm_source=newsletter&utm_med

Teaching Developmental Engineering Humor

Tomarelli 09 Aug 2009 19:25
in discussion Humor / A Day Without Humor is a Day Without Sunshine! » Teaching Humor

This field may be too new to have its own jokes. ;-)