Stephen Jacobs (cced) the Professor of the OLPC/Sugar course at the
Rochester institute of Technology is a product of Montessori schools.
His mother was a Montessori teacher.
I have found it helpful to include him in Montessori related
discussion. He has a good sense of what happens 'in the class
Montessori, and all of Experiential Education, rely so very much on the
personality of the teacher that they have very limited scalability. This
single matter is a whole sub-science in itself, with scant actual work
beyond the empirical.
Because some Schools of Montessori (there are factions and
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 7:54 AM, Gerald Ardito wrote:
> I wanted to add something to this conversation.
> I am a public middle school science teacher, and, as some of you know, the
> technology facilitator in my building working with our 5th grade students
> and teachers with a set of 150 XOs.
> I
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 1:55 AM, Martin Langhoff
wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Sameer Verma wrote:
>> I've been reading "Montessori Madness" for a few hours now, and I find
>
> Another good one is "Montessori Today"
> http://www.amazon.com/Montessori-Today-Comprehensive-Education-Adu
I wanted to add something to this conversation.
I am a public middle school science teacher, and, as some of you know, the
technology facilitator in my building working with our 5th grade students
and teachers with a set of 150 XOs.
I am sympathetic to the thread of this conversation about Montesso
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Yama Ploskonka wrote:
> Let me go a step further than Martin. Anything, including the bestest and
> newest computer thingie, will fail when the expected enabler is an
> unenthusiastic teacher.
Sometimes. And sometimes it will make an unenthusiastic teacher
intere
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Dave Bauer wrote:
> Hi Martin, can you point to Bryan's "theory" or give me a hint on
> search terms to find it?
I googled for it too, don't think he's posted anything
google-readable. He mentioned it in a couple of presentations at OLPC.
Boils down to the fact t
Some sweet old brother already pulled me over once for basically agreeing to
somebody's post, but I will risk that again.
Martin is so very right here, painfully so considering that with XOs and
Sugar we are trying some very different options to work. We are assuming
that we can use technology to
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 4:55 AM, Martin Langhoff
wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Sameer Verma wrote:
>> I've been reading "Montessori Madness" for a few hours now, and I find
>
> Another good one is "Montessori Today"
> http://www.amazon.com/Montessori-Today-Comprehensive-Education-Adu
On 12.10.2009, at 10:55, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Sameer Verma
> wrote:
>> I've been reading "Montessori Madness" for a few hours now, and I
>> find
>
> Another good one is "Montessori Today"
> http://www.amazon.com/Montessori-Today-Comprehensive-Education-Ad
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Sameer Verma wrote:
> I've been reading "Montessori Madness" for a few hours now, and I find
Another good one is "Montessori Today"
http://www.amazon.com/Montessori-Today-Comprehensive-Education-Adulthood/dp/080521061X
The funny thing is that since I've been exp
I've been reading "Montessori Madness" for a few hours now, and I find
that it has interesting parallels with some of the discussions here
(and in other related forums). http://www.montessorimadness.com/ The
site has an excerpt pdf.
Thought I'd pass it along.
cheers,
Sameer
--
Dr. Sameer Verma,
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