tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10348701.post815689888476232108..comments2024-03-13T21:26:03.011-07:00Comments on Right on the Left Coast: Views From a Conservative Teacher: MemorizationDarrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15730642770935985796noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10348701.post-28197477177644207202011-04-02T08:48:17.207-07:002011-04-02T08:48:17.207-07:00Your comment about knowing the features on your da...Your comment about knowing the features on your dashboard to automaticity got me thinking how many things I know "to automaticity." Some of them I learned by repeated exposure outside a formal learning situation. Some of them stay in my brain, after the formal learning is over, because I continue to use them. But I could not have gotten started on using them, if I had not learned them well in the classroom. The list is very, very long: French vocabulary, how to use irregular verbs, how to manipulate fractions, major bones of the body, ALL of the countries of the world (very, very useful when watching the evening news), the different geological eras. What all these things do for me is provide a framework for understanding and thinking.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10348701.post-36642894939303672102011-03-31T06:40:01.741-07:002011-03-31T06:40:01.741-07:00Sylvanus Who?
:-)Sylvanus <i>Who</i>?<br />:-)Darrenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15730642770935985796noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10348701.post-33474634116584861182011-03-31T05:02:30.978-07:002011-03-31T05:02:30.978-07:00And also lost on most who think they have all of t...And also lost on most who think they have all of the answers for educating kids!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10348701.post-86776434818727000112011-03-31T04:46:36.549-07:002011-03-31T04:46:36.549-07:00Darren, maybe Sylvanus Thayer was on to something?...Darren, maybe Sylvanus Thayer was on to something?Steve USMA '85https://www.blogger.com/profile/01098957060650513905noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10348701.post-5143642663003195062011-03-30T19:13:30.982-07:002011-03-30T19:13:30.982-07:00Core knowledge is integral to success - from event...Core knowledge is integral to success - from eventually internalizing every menial task from walking to the alphabet to times tables.<br /><br />Effective readers and thinkers use "existing knowledge" to make sense of new information.<br /><br />This fact in education is absolutely indisputable.mmazenkohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06602797515366983639noreply@blogger.com