Demonstrations of learning are also happening inside the walls of our Lower School as our 2nd - 4th graders use 3D modeling software to design animated scenes about geometric shapes and solids. Sketchup is an exciting program that students love to use to better understand the relationships between concepts like prisms and pyramids. After identifying basic shapes and their properties our learners then extrude 2D shapes to 3D solids to experience the behaviors associated with this transformation. Here's a short video I shared with teachers illustrating how Sketchup can help our students understand geometric principles.
Friday, February 1, 2013
Tech Talk: How do we learn best?
"What I hear, I forget. What I see, I remember. What I do, I understand." Xunzi (340 - 245 BC) This Confucian scholar makes a strong point that when it comes to learning, hearing is not as good as seeing, seeing is not as good as experience, and true learning is only evident when experience produces an action. This week our FIRST Lego League Robotics team put their learning to action as they demonstrated at the President Clinton Library in front of 160 Cedar Ridge middle school students. It was an outstanding presentation held in the Great Hall where team members ran the projection screen, directed guests, and took over the microphone to explain how they solved this year's Senior Solutions challenge with applied science and technology.
Demonstrations of learning are also happening inside the walls of our Lower School as our 2nd - 4th graders use 3D modeling software to design animated scenes about geometric shapes and solids. Sketchup is an exciting program that students love to use to better understand the relationships between concepts like prisms and pyramids. After identifying basic shapes and their properties our learners then extrude 2D shapes to 3D solids to experience the behaviors associated with this transformation. Here's a short video I shared with teachers illustrating how Sketchup can help our students understand geometric principles.
Demonstrations of learning are also happening inside the walls of our Lower School as our 2nd - 4th graders use 3D modeling software to design animated scenes about geometric shapes and solids. Sketchup is an exciting program that students love to use to better understand the relationships between concepts like prisms and pyramids. After identifying basic shapes and their properties our learners then extrude 2D shapes to 3D solids to experience the behaviors associated with this transformation. Here's a short video I shared with teachers illustrating how Sketchup can help our students understand geometric principles.
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