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.
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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
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
Education is like sailing out onto a pond, a lake or the ocean. Sometimes it’s one, sometimes it’s another. And, we’re never alone while doing
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
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
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
“Design Bites” are a special kind of portfolio post. They’re an opportunity for us to share practical design ideas that we’ve tried or are planning to try. As DF participants add more Bites, we will assemble a library of these that will be searchable by type, tags, and modules.
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