The Imagination Ball

Let's have an Imagination Ball. (age 4) 

What's imagination? (age 30 +4 something)

Ideas and inventions (age 4)

Yes, let's. (True story)

Constructivist theory  IS Neural plasticity. We have proof? Is it so?

We have PROOF, scientific proof of learning? Of how understanding is constructed? Discuss it. Debate it. Chew it. Is it? 

But TIME, it's of the essence.

THEY will win.

but children are being left behind, shareholders are taking all their resources, gobbling them up

Standards-based reform is TOP down

no

student up, not bottom up

Let students drive instruction, not data

Let them drive us to places unexpected, beyond the expectations of our limited minds

But the distance must be MEASURED, SHOW GROWTH, COLLECT DATA, LONGITUDINAL, DISAGGREGATE, DRIVE INSTRUCTION, RANK, SORT

RACE to the TOP, to the finish.

What happens at the top? We finish learning? That's silly

START the clock.

ON your marks

Take your data. Connect my dots. Can you see my face? Do you see my life? Do you know my possibilities? 

NO, 

you don't.

You can't. You never will. 

Big man in the chair, at a desk, looking down. You will never connect my dots with a birds-eye view. 

Take a seat, listen and learn. I'll connect my own dots.

But I need your help. 

Could you...

 buy me some books?

let me explore?

grant me an art lesson? 

expose me to ballet?

Allow me to bloom.  

Please.