Friday, May 01, 2009

contextualization again

I love this thought from Tyler Kenny ... it's about teaching children but I think the point is more universal ...

Let's take a little people group called three-year-olds, for instance. If I only use words they don't know, they obviously won't learn anything. But if I only use words they do know, they won't learn anything either.

So contextualization isn't the most important thing with kids. The most important thing is concept creation. Children need to be given new categories of thought in order to learn.

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