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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.

After you’ve completed the activity, you can upload it to your portfolio, so other’s can see it in the gallery below.

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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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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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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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