Re: [IAEP] How can we help kids get into the habits of looking for all possible causes and counter examples to problems?

2011-10-03 Thread Walter Bender
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 3:04 PM, Gary Martin wrote: > > On 3 Oct 2011, at 18:35, Frederick Grose wrote: > >> On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 12:58 AM, wrote: >> >On 02/10/2011 09:07 a.m., Maria Droujkova wrote: >> >...I have never had to do anything with REASONS for seasons or phases of >> >the moon, outs

Re: [IAEP] How can we help kids get into the habits of looking for all possible causes and counter examples to problems?

2011-10-03 Thread Gary Martin
On 3 Oct 2011, at 18:35, Frederick Grose wrote: > On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 12:58 AM, wrote: > >On 02/10/2011 09:07 a.m., Maria Droujkova wrote: > >...I have never had to do anything with REASONS for seasons or phases of the > >moon, outside of curriculum design. Have you? > --

Re: [IAEP] How can we help kids get into the habits of looking for all possible causes and counter examples to problems?

2011-10-03 Thread Frederick Grose
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 12:58 AM, wrote: > *>On 02/10/2011 09:07 a.m., Maria Droujkova wrote: > >...I have never had to do anything with REASONS for seasons or phases of > the moon, outside of curriculum design. Have you?* > > --

Re: [IAEP] How can we help kids get into the habits of looking for all possible causes and counter examples to problems?

2011-10-03 Thread Maria Droujkova
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 12:58 AM, wrote: > *>On 02/10/2011 09:07 a.m., Maria Droujkova wrote: > >...I have never had to do anything with REASONS for seasons or phases of > the moon, outside of curriculum design. Have you?* > > --

Re: [IAEP] How can we help kids get into the habits of looking for all possible causes and counter examples to problems?

2011-10-03 Thread Maria Droujkova
On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 5:59 PM, wrote: > Maria wrote: > > Looking back at my life, I have never had to do anything with REASONS for > > seasons or phases of the moon, outside of curriculum design. Have you? > > No, I doubt that > 0.001% of us have any reason to understand these things. > > The re

Re: [IAEP] How can we help kids get into the habits of looking for all possible causes and counter examples to problems?

2011-10-03 Thread Carlos Rabassa
English translation follows Spanish text Excelente mensaje Paolo: siempre recuerdo que en mi infancia en Uruguay me explicaban que la luna crece cuando tiene forma de "C" y decrece cuando tiene forma de "D". Deseo agregar un punto a tu mensaje: Hay un porcentaje considerable de uruguayos que t

Re: [IAEP] How can we help kids get into the habits of looking for all possible causes and counter examples to problems?

2011-10-02 Thread nanonano
/>On 02/10/2011 09:07 a.m., Maria Droujkova wrote: >...I have never had to do anything with REASONS for seasons or phases of the moon, outside of curriculum design. Have you?/ --- One

Re: [IAEP] How can we help kids get into the habits of looking for all possible causes and counter examples to problems?

2011-10-02 Thread Alan Papert
An effective way to achieve this attitude of mind is through a program called 'philosophy for children' (p4c). In the words of Professor Thomas Jackson, director of the philosophy in schools project in Hawaii, p4c is “gentle Socratic” inquiry; not what has become known as the Socratic method, nor t

Re: [IAEP] How can we help kids get into the habits of looking for all possible causes and counter examples to problems?

2011-10-02 Thread forster
Maria wrote: > Looking back at my life, I have never had to do anything with REASONS for > seasons or phases of the moon, outside of curriculum design. Have you? No, I doubt that > 0.001% of us have any reason to understand these things. The reason to teach about these things is that in practicin

Re: [IAEP] How can we help kids get into the habits of looking for all possible causes and counter examples to problems?

2011-10-02 Thread Maria Droujkova
On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 5:11 AM, Steve Thomas wrote: > Early in the Alan's > talk(~34:30, > sound terrible, content good) Alan talks about a survey done at the > Harvard commencement ceremonies where students, teachers and faculty were

[IAEP] How can we help kids get into the habits of looking for all possible causes and counter examples to problems?

2011-10-02 Thread Steve Thomas
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 12:18 AM, Alan Kay wrote: > I gave a talk on how they did this in the Kyoto Prize lecture followups in > San Diego in 2005. Aristarchus was one of several key figures. > > The shame of it is that for both math and science learning, the important > heuristic of trying to id