tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7897286065374355890.post267229551838105619..comments2024-03-19T04:21:59.320-07:00Comments on Mike Rose's Blog: Portraits of Thinking: A Novice CabinetmakerMike Rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14013622839240394965noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7897286065374355890.post-37961862657735994942009-05-23T00:36:19.228-07:002009-05-23T00:36:19.228-07:00I agree with both Tamsen and Robert Bradley. Ther...I agree with both Tamsen and Robert Bradley. There is a world of difference from having academic knowledge to worldly knowledge. An example of this comes from my own experience. I am terrible at math, I have always just squeaked by with barely passing grades. When I was in high school I would work with my uncle laying tile. He taught me how to measure the floor and how to calculate how many Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7897286065374355890.post-4998335753141035382009-05-16T11:04:00.000-07:002009-05-16T11:04:00.000-07:00I have come back to re-read this post numerous tim...I have come back to re-read this post numerous times, drawn both by the topic of woodworking and the topic of how our minds adjust via mode according to situations. As someone who has struggled with mathematics but managed to design and build many things with wood, I can attest to the notion that “spacializing” math in the woodshop is altogether different from tackling mean numbers on the page. Jessica Hadidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10667714256794881459noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7897286065374355890.post-85420386603584540902009-05-10T22:46:00.000-07:002009-05-10T22:46:00.000-07:00Thank you for the post!
Although it was not neces...Thank you for the post!<br /><br />Although it was not necessarily the main argument of your post, what I most enjoyed was seeing Vygotsky’s Zone of Proximal Development in action. Your story explained that Felipe and his peers struggled to understand the measurements of the cabinet that they were building for his school’s main office. You claim that they had not yet developed the “cabinet sense.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7897286065374355890.post-20507236644726183432009-03-24T19:35:00.000-07:002009-03-24T19:35:00.000-07:00This story of Felipe is an interesting reminder th...This story of Felipe is an interesting reminder that there is sometimes a difference between book learning and putting that learning to practice out in "the real world." Felipe's experience shows how learning doesn't stop with reading and classroom assignments, but continues with exposure and interaction with projects like the one he embarked on.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7897286065374355890.post-74704928964129302952009-03-18T11:48:00.000-07:002009-03-18T11:48:00.000-07:00It is wonderful to see Felipe taking a kinesthetic...It is wonderful to see Felipe taking a kinesthetic process in learning difficult aspects of mathematics. By hands-on trial and error, he is learning through his mistakes. I believe that it is only through actually doing, practicing and experimenting with new concepts or ideas (and we might and must fail at first) that we truly learn—gain knowledge that will genuinely stay with us. This can be Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7897286065374355890.post-33179197526826827892009-03-17T15:22:00.000-07:002009-03-17T15:22:00.000-07:00I am an ESL/English/Reading teacher pursuing a doc...I am an ESL/English/Reading teacher pursuing a doctorate in Reading. Therefore, a lot of your stories really resonate with me because they represent "my" kids. I, too, feel that there are so many in-roads to a person's mind and intelligence, but academia views intelligence so narrowly. I am heartened, however, by the development of career center high schools. At the same time, these schools Bobbi Faulknerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10064977557965217965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7897286065374355890.post-6062275394048758952009-03-15T14:11:00.000-07:002009-03-15T14:11:00.000-07:00I love to see experiences such as Felipe's. He see...I love to see experiences such as Felipe's. He sees the contradiction of simple but difficult math, but he is working through it with real, kinesthetic assignments. With the budget cuts of California, I am afraid that these experiences will also be cut. How can teachers provide these assignments while managing standards, curriculum, and overcrowded classrooms? Teachers will have a hard time, Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7897286065374355890.post-33779289285668963342009-03-13T06:26:00.000-07:002009-03-13T06:26:00.000-07:00I really enjoyed reading this post since I have be...I really enjoyed reading this post since I have been thinking about intelligence in this way for a long time. I have been teaching English to college students for almost twenty years and in that time I taught myself how to crochet, knit complicated garments, and spin my own yarn. The intelligence I used to learn these skills was different than the intelligence used in my academic pursuits, yet Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7897286065374355890.post-50540935312470258902009-03-11T19:22:00.000-07:002009-03-11T19:22:00.000-07:00Felipe’s story is a perfect example of how subject...Felipe’s story is a perfect example of how subjects can be made “tangible.” It is my sense that all subjects – not just mathematics - should be made as tangible as possible. When students are able to work with and apply concepts in a hands-on way, the relationship to the subject matter becomes more personal and concrete. Knowledge becomes a tool to be used - not just a list of abstract facts or ellzabethjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02902401999375707958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7897286065374355890.post-89291791674529851652009-03-08T00:47:00.000-08:002009-03-08T00:47:00.000-08:00I am interested in Felipe’s contradictory thoughts...I am interested in Felipe’s contradictory thoughts on what he considers “simple” but also “difficult” mathematics. It is clear that the isolated mathematic equations are simple, but the combination of many mathematical equations creates some difficulty. This reminds me that understanding concepts of a particular subject is only a step in the process of learning. For the learning process to Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09805613968585452349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7897286065374355890.post-65066446420209179382009-03-06T09:41:00.000-08:002009-03-06T09:41:00.000-08:00I completely agree on the point that the academic ...I completely agree on the point that the academic world looks too narrowly at intelligence. What do we do with students who do not see (or may not want to see) the beauty in Anna Karenina or the intricacies of a chemistry equation, but they are complete geniuses when it comes to things like mechanics and cabinetry? Should we continue to cram the literature cannon down their throats when they Tamsenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05442886054908918695noreply@blogger.com