Thursday
Dec102009

Flicks, Clicks & Flips

The World's Fastest Indian: Mentoring


 

Flick: A Working Tea in The World's Fastest Indian

This clip shows real work and real mentoring. When we work we talk and do. In the real world, we do and talk at the same time and in real work you are solving problems that do not have answers. It is by testing and re-testing as a scientist does that you find answers. This flick has lots of parts about being a citizen scientist. Also, it delves into how people who are experts may teach and instruct beginners in a ‘safe’ environment by having them do things they are doing with different and much safer tools. Mimicking is very powerful as is the power of informal learning with interest in both the person and the objects being manipulated.

Click: “The perfect recipe”

             “Twenty-seven test runs”

Flip: Do and know not just know and do, mentoring, positional learning, citizen scientist, talking and doing at the same time

Article: Perspectives on Relevance and the Quest for Rigorous Student Learning: Balancing Life to Text and Text to Life

Activity: Use the Klutz books or the making of an origami crane as activities. Have participants pair up where one observes the other on how they make something from the Klutz activity book or the origami crane and then have them talk about the kind of learner they are. Then, have the observer talk about the kind of learner they saw.

Discuss the way Anthony Hopkins sets up the environment in a safe way so the boy can learn.

Discuss how the participants capture this type of learning at an internship and give credit for it.