I was cruising(not much for swimming so I don't surf) Youtube for videos of Stampy Long Nose, my kid's current favorite character. Stampy makes kid-friendly videos of his adventures as a cat character in Minecraft.
Here is a Stampy
video, below it is the subject of this
thread.
Anyway I wanted to download some audio
books so I went looking for audios to harvest from Youtube, sorry I don't see many libraries at the truck stops so I do a search at Youtube with the "audiobook full" and up pops a bunch of great stuff. Some are classics from days gone by and others are from a month ago.
I also like to download Ted Talks to listen to. I discovered I could use Mozilla's Firefox browser, it has an add-on that comes up on the Youtube page that lets you download various size files. I was looking for a way to take Stampy home to my son who is 8, we are out in the boonies in WV without internet. My wife used to like it but got away from it and she is sort of scared to let our 8 year old loose with all the freaks uploading homemade porn.
To the title of this thread, Hands-on, self directed learning. One of the Ted Talks has a man by the name of Gever Tulley. You can background information
here.
Gever co-authored a book
50 Dangerous Things (You Should Let Your Child Do) First thing to do in the book? Put your tongue on a 9 volt battery. (Raise your hand, or at least grimace if you did this.)
Gever Tulley urges us to stop thinking of education as something that we *do* to
people, and start thinking of people as voracious self-directed learners.
Gever Tulley is all for letting kids play with fire, use a pocket knife and play with power tools. He believes that in order for them to be creative as well as safe, they must experiment with these objects (with adult supervision of course) so he founded the Tinkering School, a week-long, sleepaway summer camp for children, where kids can release their creativity and learn by doing. Gever is also the founder and Education Architect of Brightworks, an innovative new K-12 school in San Francisco.
Gever Tulley teaches life lessons through tinkering.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUbIu9m2Kks
Here is a link to all sorts of videos of
Gever Tulley
I cringed on talking with my wife about our second grader who was a joy for his kindergarten and first grade teachers. The second grade teacher was always sending home orange and yellow faces for talking out of turn, running around and OMG "touching" other students. Family figured, "Jeremiah just needs more of a whipping." We have a really great kid, got him long after we thought we would be parents, spanking sucked. After my wife talked with his teacher about something suggested by a neighbor about "scaring him straight" with a visit from a
local policeman, the teacher woke up and realized Jeremiah wasn't the terror she was making him out to be to us. As soon as she stopped, so didn't he. Hmmm?