"...by 6 to 7 months, babies can remember a sign. At eight months, children can begin to imitate gestures and sign single words. By 24 months, children can sign compound words and full sentences. They say sign language reduces frustration in young children by giving them a means to express themselves before they know how to talk." (Glarion, 2003)

Stanley donwood makes a woodcut

It's also ominous because all these colors that I've used are derived from the petrol-chemical industry. They're only possible because of the fractioning of hydrocarbons. That's how they get the pigments. None of it is natural. It essentially comes from black sludge. We've created this incredibly vibrant society, but we're going to have to deal with the consequences sooner or later.

I 0 ti people and things are objects to be used and expeiricne
man goes around hauling knowledge from the world they experience present man with only words of it

brainstorm-pick-plan-draft-review/assess-redraft ad infinitum
esl learner needs
a gifted 12 yr old made a mess of puck

a childs emoitions are far more improtant than his intellectual progress

autonomy..mastery..prupose

Stanley donwood
cy twom,bly
tadanori yokoo
david shrigley

Children , like adults learn what they want to learn
all prize giving and marks and..sidetrack rppoer personaility development
I know that under duiscsipline comparativley poor students pass exams but I wonder what becomes of these passers in later life..they become unimaginitve teachers, mediocre doctors and incompetant lawyers ..would possiblty be muxch happier as good mechanix or excellent bricklayers

if all schools were free and all lessons optional I bekleive that children wuold find their won level ..most of the school work that adolcesnents do is simply a waste of time and energy

We put out a differnet energy everyday
if all schools were free and all lessons optional
to escape moulding by adults who do nowt know how to live themselves

Authority/ownership
Love means approving of children
the function of the child is to live his own life..one should never help a child in any way unless he is not capable of solving the problem himself

fear of the childs future

noise and play between the ages of 7-14
school should make a childslife a game. Life presents so many difficulties that artificially made difficulties are unnecessary. The child should do nothing until he comes to his own opinion that it should be done

the curse of humanity is external compulsion…it is all facism
homer land- little commonwealth..the wheat germ , unpolished rice,the molasses, compost grown greens

Compromise with a less free civilization

this filthy earth
thelast green wilderness

Minesota mammoth, tuntable desserers, with any other teeth, are manipulated

Do Essays Go Viral?
9/11 Memorial Lights Trap Thousands of Birds

To factor in freedom without artificial constraints-
to seek damp woods

Outside my troons
killed off by the anti lifes
parents know what is right..children feel what is right
if positive pride is lacking , negative chagrin is not
nted strong evidence that babies as young as six months old communicate with their hands

make decisions slowly by consensus?-implement decisions rapidly
Richard florida-squelchers-those who underminecreativity-prefer convention-create bnlockages to new ideas

profile-think of it/do it/prove it

Kids like me in china
united nations declaration of human rights

beglers 5 fs- food,festivals,fashion,famous people,folklore
revoulition-people are willing to fight and die to change a political system
Harvard “project zero”
how international is my school?

1- schools culture accomopdate and reflects the cultres refelctedin the school
2- school takes positive advantage of the diversity withih n the school body to enrich the learning of the whole sxchooll community
3-the adults in the school community actively model inteculatural uinderstanding

2- top down goal process to define numerical goals
W Edwards demmings- squelchers
Frederick Winston taylor-scientific management
scores as principle model of success-as oppose to a complexapproach

pentagon plots
don’t forget what you learned in the desert
the vortex..yung jin must be disciplined

I would ask “who the hell took my sappner and didn’t give it back?” and willie did it and he heard his fathers voice and identified me with a cop and the next meeting shut up like a clam

Newspapers have called it a go as you please school and have implied that it is a meeting of wild primates

reuests & commands- permission
a civilization whose standards of success is money

the subaqua question-what hif he never tuires-overlapping skills- sees it, reccomentdit-
So what if he starts late..msiied potential= fear!

accuturative stress
in reggia inquiry is followed by more inquiry rather than investigation followe by anwers

talk about culture

Some sense of loss
decision making skills
enrichment model clusters

The hundered languages ofchildren
k-6 culture

French and bells iceberg

Davos/ raclette
pluralist world view

Mathas
contant stards-number,ops/algebra/geometry/measure/data,oprob
process standards-probsolv/reasongin,communication,connections,representation

physical model
use praise cautiously
express interes/value the thinking

Recount
shared objectives
audience
modeled wirting
s&l example
fixation on spelliong…beyond phoince

past tense verbs….ed=t/d
short vowels—doubles….dropped, spinning

Who is popular?
progressive liberal education
focus on provcess

long term memory-implicit/non verbal
a very robust memory can result when Ss reperatedly explainwhat they are doingcreating neural networks
memory types
for certain memories little effort or studying is required because of emaotional significance

if Ss we able to have lessons of great personal significance but without negative threats

we can create linages between a given lesson and students by facitlitating the search for patterns having Ss physically involved and especially when they have a p[ersonal interest in the outcome

if learning is memory- the retrieval of memory

concepts spread throughtout the entire cortex when the mromry is accesse we only access a portion of the network which is why we never have exactly the same thought twice

multiple assessments using different modalitles are necessary to overcome the limited access to the memory of a concept at a particu;ar time

a single assessment givwes only a poor snapshot of what is in the brain and may miss large portions or what a student knows

Mirror neurons
imitation can make us slow fast smart dumb..good at bad at math…
involved in the development of addictions and impulses

impact on cherished notions of freee will and why some actions

Theory of sparse coding
after a concept is established Ss create a wide variety of conncetions using different learning modalities
should reinforce and revisit the concept

reggio Emilia- umst be wiling to give time
constructivist using Emilia lead to deeper understandiong of l;earing
documentation

to have cognitive conflict without emotional conflict

Self organised learning envitronemtns—soles
call the granny cloud

A question...A place to search..a time to talk..a place to share...a time for feedback...
self organiseing systems produce emergence..where tyey begin to create things that they were never meant to do

From fasrmers to factory workers-to knowledge workers-creatior and empathisers
creativity / innovation- inquiry-critical thinking/problem solving/ communication./collaboration/global thinking/leadership/responsibility
big actions/everyday actions
global citizens live out their learner profile as adults

PYP action- choose/act/reflect
actions havea n enduring impact when they affect a students inner cionviction and genuine choice and responsibility
often childrne4 are no conscious of their choices
they may learn fioormulainc responses to refelction that the T will accept
the more we focus on the issues outside the chns sphere eof influence the more we hightlight their powerlesseness the shere of influence is profoundly significant to them

make sense of a deluge of stimuli be trying to find patterns and seing how these patterns fit together with still other patterns
walking and taklking

make the emotional contact first then worry asboutt he lesson

fromntal loves mature between 21-24 they are major executive functions in decision making..it processes much of our impulse and inhibition control, focuses attention in working memory, logic and reaaoniong

you may learn superb study skills but may not intitiate the use of those skills without some direction

leartning os arguabvly about the formation of returnable memories which include theknowledge process, habits , skills, attrivbutes andbiases…perceptions develop through experiences

Actual experimentation, the manipulation and testing of ideas in reality, provides children with direct, concrete feedback about the accuracy of their ideas as they work them out. Both play and exploration are self-structured and self-motivated processes of learning.

Working memory
sensory memory

Alan howarht / penderecki/ goblin/ cantometrics/ renato rinaldi/ By the time we came to do the first vinyl, I knew exactly how I wanted to do it,” he recalls. “I wanted it to be completely sealed in a waterproof,

a selection of entr’acte releases moisture-proof, any kind of proof bag.And totally invisible as a record…I wanted something that was just more anonymous.Oddly enough, starting from the premise that the label should be almost invisible, and considered as a facility. It would just say artist, title, catalogue number in a very pharmaceutical kind of way,which I’d state is an obvious influence.”
If it’s primarily led by chance and opportunity

technobrega/ blue oyster cult- red and black-tyranny mutation/ heironymous bosch

By accident I got first in line at a gate and I got to stand in front of the Mona Lisa and after a while start takin’ away at her face, to just her eyes. And they were John Coltrane’s eyes. He’s just somebody

preface it with ‘I could be wrong’. How about that? And ten, 12 hours of practising, like that. This guy I played a show with, he went to the Hiroshima show and Trane’s been blowing for three hours. Guy wants to get his album signed, goes backstage and Trane’s got a towel on his head, practising! After the gig [laughs]! Miles writes about Trane practising after a gig. Rashied [Ali] said he’d be at the airport and pull out the flute! He says, ‘Why? He was so good.’ I could be wrong but I think I know why. He’d get going on something and it’d lead to other things. He’d chase them down.

So to me, there is something about it. Music is real strong on me. Something about it changed my life, big time, this thing with D Boon. This thing. Coltrane gave it to us. He’s a big symbol in a lot of ways.

catherine christa hennix / bertold brecht/ joseph beuys/ ryoanji gardn/ pil poptones/
ascension/ kulu mama/ meditations/ expression/ om/ cosmic music/ sun ship/ interstella space/
Huntington Ashram Monastery
black chow

process driven
fcc Michael powell
2005 adbusters…fear of all misplaced..sems like they were off track and fearmonger of their own ..will be less likely to believe 2010 adbusters on reread..
growing plants anm man made constructionsong
james blake

(i)
So Reading Age = ( L × 0.0778 ) + ( N × 0.0455 ) + 2.7971 years.
This test is NOT suitable for secondary age books, and is most suitable for material in the 7 - 10 age range.

A number of informal procedures can be used in the classroom to assess fluency

(NICHHD, 2000):

􀂃 informal reading inventories

􀂃 miscue analysis

􀂃 pausing indices

􀂃 running records

􀂃 reading speed calculations.

At the heart of Sugata Mitra’s work is his dramatic exposition of the fact that children are highly capable of organising their own learning. “I thought, 'What would happen if you just leave a computer with them?' and I have discovered from similar results from around the world that children can achieve on their own…” he says. “If they have a reason to.”

This has inspired him to form a theory about “self organising systems for education” which, if fully developed, appear to have profound consequences for teaching and learning in schools, colleges and universities and the education system world-wide. And his emerging work in England is already beginning to support this.

Sugata has begun to test this theory in the North East of England in Gateshead where he placed 32 10-year-olds in eight groups of four, each with just one computer, a netbook, between them.

“My hardest job was just getting the teachers out of the room,” he said, “and it is really important that the pupils have to share the computer; they can switch groups, observe other groups and learn from each other. Interestingly one child responded “You mean cheat sir!”

The children were set real questions, including six from last year’s GCSE exams, and the outcomes were astonishing. “The quickest group produced a full and correct answer in 20 minutes… The slowest group took just 45 minutes and this demonstrates that groups of children can navigate the net to achieve educational objectives on their own.”

When I met Arthur C Clarke some years ago when he was interested in the “hole in the wall” experiment, he told me, ‘A teacher that can be replaced by a machine should be.’ The second thing he told me was, ‘If children have interest, then education happens."

Nobody works harder at tlearning than a curious kid-

Daniel pink

If you leave it on the pavement and all the adults go away ...then they will show off to each other what they can do..

True inquiry and HO skills

The method of the grandmother..stand behind say “thats great”..”why does that haoppen” “Can you show me more of that?”

Grandmothers were asked to give 1hr of broadband time in their homes once a week
skype...the granny cloud

children cannot become fully literate until they develop fast recognition of words and “accurate production of words in writing”

Gunning 'FOG' Readability Test

Select samples of 100 words, normally three such samples. (i)
Calculate L, the average sentence length (number of words ÷ number of sentences).
Estimate the number of sentences to the nearest tenth, where necessary. (ii)
In each sample, count the number of words with 3 or more syllables.
Find N, the average number of these words per sample. Then the grade level needed to understand the material = (L + N) × 0.4
So the Reading Age = [(L + N) × 0.4 ] + 5 years. This 'FOG' measure is suitable for secondary and older primary age groups.

Fry Readability Graphs

Select samples of 100 words.

(i) Find y, the average number of sentences per 100-word passage (calculating to the nearest tenth).

(ii) Find x, the average number of syllables per 100-word sample.

Then use the Fry graph (below) to determine the reading age, in years.

This test is suitable for all ages, from infant to upper secondary.

The curve represents normal texts. Points below the curve imply longer than average sentence lengths. Points above the curve represent text with a more difficult vocabulary (as in school science texts).

Powers-Sumner-Kearl Formula
This is the only one of the formulae suitable for primary age books.

Select samples of 100 words.

(i) Calculate L, the average sentence length (number of words ÷ number of sentences). Estimate the number of sentences to the nearest tenth, where necessary.

Count N, the number of syllables per 100 words.
Then grade level = ( L × 0.0778 ) + ( N × 0.0455 ) - 2.2029