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#2 about Teaching and Learning

"Try to think of three friends who make a living at things they learned outside of school (list by occupation/skill)." (#2 of 7 from a set of questions I wrote up when I was newly speaking about

By Sandra Dodd · #78587 ·

Re: About Teaching and Learning #1

On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 07:47 PM, Sandra Dodd wrote: List five things you learned after the age of twelve that you learned totally outside of school. List five things you learned after the age of

By Sandra Dodd · #78586 ·

Re: About Teaching and Learning #1

On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 10:35 AM, Lorna Bateson wrote: most usefully, how to build a washing up station from bamboo and string! -=-most usefully, how to build a washing up station from bamboo and

By Sandra Dodd · #78585 ·

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Keelia, I've learned from your list about trash pumps and cyanobacteria. Trash pumps don't pump trash, and cyanobacteria are not the color cyan (which I know from printer inks—four-color

By Sandra Dodd · #78584 · Edited

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Sarah, I love the added " useful and pleasant, and I have used in the past week:" Someone on facebook put up a question about things we learned in school that we had never used since. I thought a

By Sandra Dodd · #78583 ·

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On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 12:22 AM, belinda dutch wrote: Does ‘outside of school’ mean outside sll formal learning? Shoujd we count things we learned on courses/from teachers we volunteered for or

By Sandra Dodd · #78582 ·

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So, in no particular order I learnt to garden, from basic maintenance like mowing and hedge trimming, to pruning, planting, weeding, and so on How to strip and repaint wooden window frames. That

By Lorna Bateson · #78581 ·

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--List five things you learned after the age of twelve that you learned totally outside of school.-- Wow, so many interesting things have happened to and around me, that it can be hard to pin down

By Nowhere Man · #78580 ·

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>>List five things you learned after the age of twelve that you learned totally outside of school.>> 1- How to cook (in my teens) 2 - learning all I needed to settle and integrate into a new country

By Rachael Sanya · #78579 ·

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==List five things you learned after the age of twelve that you learned totally outside of school.== Honestly - pretty much everything! But - specifically: Knit (about 12 or 13) How to make different

By Jo Isaac · #78578 ·

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I learned to play clarinet out of school - didn't have a teacher until I was fairly advanced, playing grade 8 music. And then only five or six lessons. My mother and I dug out foundations and built a

By Bernadette Lynn · #78577 ·

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1. Age 23ish - many things about wildfire, running a chain saw, and how to prime a gasoline powered trash pump. Knowing how to prime a pump manually has transferred and come in handy a lot. 2. Age

By Keelia Johnston · #78576 ·

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It’s harder to think of things I learned in school past the age 12 that are still useful. But here’s some things that I’m certain I didn’t know anything about before 12, didn’t learn from

By Sarah Peshek · #78575 ·

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Interesting, too, was that I did go to University for Visual Arts but after I got my degree I began a personal mission to unlearn much of my training because I found it got in the way of what I hoped

By Karen James · #78574 ·

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As a kid, outside of school, I learned to ride a bike, identify insects (not always by name), identify trees (again, not always by name), identify wildflowers (which led me to learn that the

By Karen James · #78573 ·

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Interesting! Does ‘outside of school’ mean outside sll formal learning? Shoujd we count things we learned on courses/from teachers we volunteered for or paid for? Or are we asking what we

By belinda dutch · #78572 ·

Re: Learn Nothing Day 2020

We've failed at learning nothing every year so far. But if you fail, try, try, try again. Usually it's hard because it's my sister's birthday, but this year we won't be seeing her AND it won't be for

By Bernadette Lynn · #78571 ·

About Teaching and Learning #1

I have something to help stir up ideas here. It's a questionnaire I made for a talk I gave in Albuquerque in 1997. It was passed out as people came into the room, and we didn't talk about it

By Sandra Dodd · #78570 ·

Learn Nothing Day 2020

In a month, July 24, it's Learn Nothing Day. I thought it would be the 12th one, but Holly and I double checked. There have already been 12. This will be #13. UNLUCKY? Maybe! But unlucky might

By Sandra Dodd · #78569 ·

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Some news!FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 2020 Pressure, Politics, Late-Night Learning Addition and clean-up on page about what can happen if parents pressure children: https://sandradodd.com/pressure Reminder of

By Sandra Dodd · #78568 ·

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