/blog_archive/2015/09/11/let-em-talk/ iteration, making, building, and coding in education Fri, 11 Sep 2015 09:09:54 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.7.6 /blog_archive/2015/09/11/let-em-talk/#comment-400 Fri, 11 Sep 2015 09:09:54 +0000 http://evanweinberg.com/?p=2296#comment-400 I love the way you have stated your classroom practice; the way you have managed to remove yourself from the “sage on the stage”. I have found that children enjoy challenging work instead of boring lecture, and your experience with what children are doing as you intro a topic is exactly what I have experienced. For me, one of the hardest parts of getting started was/is deciding what problem to put out there for the discussion. The second difficulty was/is creating the student led group environment. For the former, I choose a complex example of what I need them to be able to solve on their own. For the latter, I ask “why” and “how do you know” to get them started. A few weeks into school, they start telling me how they know without my prompt- and I hear them doing this to each other in their groups–

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