The purpose of the learning
What students become able to do, how readiness develops through experience, how curiosity leads to investigation and why understanding needs to come before terminology.
The book
Learning To Think
Designing Experiences
That Develop Capability
Practical ideas for building understanding, investigating problems and becoming more capable and confident.
Ken shares his insights, educational philosophy and teaching methods acquired over many years of experience, both as a student and as a teacher. That experience extends from his career in industry through to his encore career teaching elementary students.
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Inside the book
From educational purpose
to practical choices.
Experiences that develop thinking
Giving students responsibility for the thinking, making a challenge manageable, working out an approach, investigating unexpected results and examining what the evidence establishes.
Learning from the work and carrying it forward
How Ken prepared the Forge materials for other instructors, improved the way he created them and brought the ideas together so others can use them.
A wider audience
You can use the ideas
in your own way.
The book draws on Forge and programming, with examples from other subjects and everyday life. You do not need a programming background to follow its educational discussion.
For instructors considering Forge, it explains why the course is arranged as it is, why its activities and materials were prepared that way and how to help students gain the most from them.
Other readers can take the ideas that resonate with them and consider where they could be useful.
Explore the companion course