At the cricket ground: "Learning about cricket in middle age is, like studying Mandarin, an effort best left to scholars, optimists and members of the Foreign Service".
After a couple of hours under the ground learning about trunk road gritting, I emerged into the sunlight in need of fresh, non-salty air, my eyebrows caked with grubby crusts like an unwashed Arctic explorer.
A complementary approach to grounding learning in action is grounding learning within familiar or concrete experiences.
They argued that professional learning communities position teachers as active learners and typically ground learning in teachers' professional practices and research on effective practices.
More precisely, failures are discarded if and when decision makers are innovators on the ground, learning to avoid losing their own money on ideas that fail to bear fruit in a given time and place.
It grounds learning in basic problem solving, not jargon and syntax and, right off the bat, if they get stuck, they can turn to the platform's instructional videos, and if that doesn't answer their questions, they can ask questions of real, live tutors.
In Paris, you can lose an hour, two, maybe more, just exploring the Palais and its grounds, learning the layout, the most effective routes of escape, the best hiding places.
The problem, therefore, lies more upstream, in an earlier stage of biomolecular grounding (learning through perception [icons] and conceptual instructions).
With simple animal facts, math, science and basic language skills, "Stanley," a new daily series on the Disney Channel that begins Saturday at 10 a.m., is fantasy grounded in learning.
