Do You See What I See?
3-D Reasoning, 2-D Students
Peg Cagle
This session focused on how students today are different. Peg Cagle spent the majority of the session demonstrating the differences in play for students today.
Play was different
mechanical vs. electronic
do-it-yourself vs. pre-made
nature of public playgrounds
She talked about each of these in more detail.
I was hoping to walk away with the so what do I do to help students and toward the end of the session she gave these suggestions:
- encourage physical activity (team sports to tree climbing)
- introduce 2-d and 3-d dissection puzzles
- full, pour, estimate, measure as much as you can (figure it out - which holds more?)
- play with string (make knots, shapes, loops)
- build stuff
At one point she had us look at paper folding and all the questions you could ask students.
She wonders if memory is stored in a geometric construct how students lack of experience with spatial reasoning might influence memory access.
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