Yes, but sometimes parents cringe when we say fun ("I don't work hard to pay
taxes for my kid to be having so-called-fun"), and sometimes one kid lets loose
with wild abandon, forgetting all common sense and creating a hazardous
learning environment.
Joy/NC/4
How children learn is as important as what they learn: process and content go
hand in hand. http://www.responsiveclassroom.org
--- On Thu, 7/3/08, Palmer, Jennifer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From: Palmer, Jennifer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [Understand] how my thinking changed....
To: "Special Chat List for "To Understand: New Horizons in Reading
Comprehension"" <[email protected]>
Date: Thursday, July 3, 2008, 2:50 PM
Perhaps what we need to do is redefine "fun!" This is some serious
thinking we do on this listserv but I also think it is fun to be a part of it!
"Engaged is good, but it has a technical feel to it, to me.
Jennifer Palmer
Reading Specialist, National Board Certified Teacher
FLES- Lead the discovery, Live the learning, Love the adventure.
"Children grow into the intellectual life around them."
-Vygotsky
From: Beverlee Paul
Sent: Thu 7/3/2008 2:34 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Understand] how my thinking changed....
I do love the word "satisfying" (from Lilian Katz) in place of
"fun" when describing engaged learning.
*********************************(I hate the word fun relating to education, it
seems to devalue what we are doing - perhaps engaging is a better word?)
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