Re: About Teaching and Learning #1
-=- most usefully, how to build a washing up station from bamboo and string!-=- I know how to do that!? I didn't have bamboo, but I know how to lash a table between two trees, If I have two long
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Sandra Dodd
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Re: About Teaching and Learning #1
Keelia, I've learned from your list about trash pumps and cyanobacteria. Trash pumps don't pump trash, and cyanobacteria are not the color cyan (which I know from printer inks¡ªfour-color separation,
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Sandra Dodd
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Re: About Teaching and Learning #1
Sarah, I love the added " useful and pleasant, and I have used in the past week:" Someone on facebook put up a question about things we learned in school that we had never used since. I thought a
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Sandra Dodd
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Re: About Teaching and Learning #1
I was thinking without formal instruction. There are three people I have credited with having taught me guitar, recorder, and calligraphy¡ªall learned long before I was a mom.? Every one of my
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Sandra Dodd
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Re: About Teaching and Learning #1
So, in no particular order I learnt to garden, from basic maintenance like mowing and hedge trimming, to pruning, planting, weeding, and so on How to strip and repaint wooden window frames. That was a
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Lorna Bateson
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Re: About Teaching and Learning #1
--List five things you learned after the age of twelve that you learned totally outside of school.-- Wow, so many interesting things have happened to and around me, that it can be hard to pin down
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Nowhere Man
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Re: About Teaching and Learning #1
1- How to cook (in my teens)2 - learning all I needed to settle and integrate into a new country and completely new culture(20's)3 - Social etiquette and how it varies from culture to culture4 -
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Rachael Sanya
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Re: About Teaching and Learning #1
==List five things you learned after the age of twelve that you learned totally outside of school.== Honestly - pretty much everything! But - specifically: 1. Knit (about 12 or 13) 2. How to make
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Jo Isaac
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Re: About Teaching and Learning #1
I learned to play clarinet out of school - didn't have a teacher until I was fairly advanced, playing grade 8 music. And then only five or six lessons. My mother and I dug out foundations and built a
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Bernadette Lynn
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Re: About Teaching and Learning #1
1. Age 23ish - many things about wildfire, running a chain saw, and how to prime a gasoline powered trash pump. Knowing how to prime a pump manually has transferred and come in handy a lot. 2. Age
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Keeliaj@...
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Re: About Teaching and Learning #1
It¡¯s harder to think of things I learned in school past the age 12 that are still useful. But here¡¯s some things that I¡¯m certain I didn¡¯t know anything about before 12, didn¡¯t learn from
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Sarah Peshek
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Re: About Teaching and Learning #1
Interesting, too, was that I did go to University for Visual Arts but after I got my degree I began a personal mission to unlearn much of my training because I found it got in the way of what I hoped
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Karen James
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Re: About Teaching and Learning #1
As a kid, outside of school, I learned to ride a bike, identify insects (not always by name), identify trees (again, not always by name), identify wildflowers (which led me to learn that the
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Karen James
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Re: About Teaching and Learning #1
Interesting! Does ¡®outside of school¡¯ mean outside sll formal learning? Shoujd we count things we learned on courses/from teachers we volunteered for or paid for? Or are we asking what we learned
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belinda dutch
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Re: Learn Nothing Day 2020
We've failed at learning nothing every year so far. But if you fail, try, try, try again. Usually it's hard because it's my sister's birthday, but this year we won't be seeing her AND it won't be for
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Bernadette Lynn
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About Teaching and Learning #1
I have something to help stir up ideas here.? It's a questionnaire I made for a talk I gave in Albuquerque in 1997.? It was passed out as people came into the room, and we didn't talk about it
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Sandra Dodd
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Learn Nothing Day 2020
In a month, July 24, it's Learn Nothing Day.? I thought it would be the 12th one, but Holly and I double checked.? There have already been 12.? This will be #13.? UNLUCKY? Maybe! But unlucky might
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Sandra Dodd
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#announcements
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Some news! -------------------- FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 2020 -------------------- Pressure, Politics, Late-Night Learning (
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Sandra Dodd
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Re: Podcast?
A fumble lost me a long post.? Summary; the old one was better :-) I don't have a podcast, nor does this group. Pam Laricchia has one, 60-90 minutes, usually, and is up to #227:
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Sandra Dodd
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Boredom (a study, you can sign up)
I think this is still open for people to join. :-) In this podcast is are several articles about scientific studies that were benefitted by stay-at-home conditions¡ªwhale sounds in Glacier Bay, air
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Sandra Dodd
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