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Metaphorical Thinking

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Look around your home or office and find some object that you can use as a metaphor of learning or teaching. Don’t worry about finding the “right” object. The idea of this exercise is to push your thinking about teaching or learning by relating it to something that isn’t obvious.

When you’re done, take a picture of your object and share it in your portfolio with a brief description of why you chose it and how the metaphor works for you.

Submit to Your Portfolio

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Photo of a pile of scrap paper.
Liz

Tumbleweed

I chose this tumbleweed as an object to use to explore metaphors of teaching and learning. It’s mounted to a wall above a window in

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Photo of the Adventure Camp Cozy Cabins LEGO Friends set.
Alexandra

Lego Metaphor

My 5 year-old daughter is getting into Legos. I was initially psyched, but now I’m not so sure. From my limited experience, the set comes

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Photo of a desk lamp next to a calendar open to February, both objects located near a window showing a snowy day outside.
Margaret

Lightbulb

It isn’t that ‘creative’, but I think of teaching and learning as watching lightbulbs go off- because I will never forget having it go off

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Photo of a painted glass.
Maria

Glass dancer

The dancer is free and yet contained within the glass orb. I can see this representing both teaching and learning. Teachers and learners constantly face

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Photo of a group of people in the outdoors.
clothrop

Group picture

This is an existing picture I had in the very limited files I can access on my laptop at home.  This was a group that

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