Words for Wednesday
The original Words for Wednesday was begun by Delores and eventually taken over by a moveable feast of participants when Delores had computer troubles. Sadly, Delores has now closed her blog forever due to other problems.
The aim of the words is to encourage us to write. A story, a poem, whatever comes to mind.
If you are posting an entry on your own blog, please let us know so we can come along to read it and add a few encouraging words.
This month the words/prompts are supplied by Sean Jeating and can be found here
Charlotte's colour of the month is Heavenly Blue
This week's words/prompts are:
1.technique 2.think 3.taught 4.way 5.completely
and/or:
1.learn 2.write 3.exist 4.reading 5.lost
use either list or both, or mix and match, just have fun.
My own story will appear on this blog on Friday 14th
Working on it, will get there.
ReplyDeletemessymimi; looking forward to it.
DeleteIt's over here.
DeleteAPRENENTATGE
ReplyDeleteA un petit poble, l'educació ha estat transformada per una TÈCNICA innovadora. Els estudiants han après a LLEGIR i escriure de MANERA efectiva, COMPLETAMENT enfocats a l'aprenentatge SENSE distraccions. En aquest entorn, se'ls ENSENYA a PENSAR críticament, desafiant les seves percepcions sobre què significa EXISTIR i contribuir a la societat.
Les aules, pintades d'un BLAU CEL que convida a la creativitat, han esdevingut espais on les idees flueixen lliurement. Aquest mètode ha demostrat que no només es tracta d'adquirir coneixements, sinó d'APRENDRE a aplicar aquests sabers a la vida quotidiana. Tot i això, el veritable desafiament rau en ESCRIURE la seva pròpia història sense PERDRE la identitat.
La comunitat observa com el futur es construeix amb cada estudiant que gosa somiar i innovar.
Aquí vos deixo la meva història.
Gràcies!
sa lluna; thank you. I wish all schools could be like this and I am sure the children would love to learn this way and be happier about going to school. I also wish I had been taught to think critically, alas, I was taught "do as you are told".
DeleteAn interesting-sounding school model. "Without distractions" sounds downright revolutionary! ;-)
DeleteWell, done, Paula.
Aferradetes.
River: És ben cert que l'educació està mol mal enfocada. Quan vaig sortir de les monges, a l'institut vaig tenir la sort de tenir la majoria de professors que em van ensenyar com en aquest col·legi i n'estic molt satisfeta.
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DeleteSean: Sense distraccions no vol dir que no t'ho passis bé, com li he dit a River, a l'institut on vaig anar, passaven les hores gairebé volant. ;-)
DeleteGràcies!
Brilliant, I wish it were this way here.
DeleteYou don't need to tell me that, Paula. I was just thinking about today's little smombies (smartphone zombies)
Deletesa lluna; as you describe is how it was when I was in school, but now there is too much of the "extras" on the curriculum. silly things that children should be taught at home, like how to get on with others, how to handle bullying etc.
Deletemessymimi : Crec que ara, malauradament, és a molt pocs llocs que es fa. Gràcies!
DeleteSean: I tant! :-(
River: Crec que és una tasca conjunta, escola i casa. Els nens avui en dia tenen massa distraccions per "centrar-se" en res... Els pares massa ocupats amb els seus treballs i els mestres tampoc no es volen comprometre en res...
I can't wait to read how you use these words.
ReplyDeleteDVArtist; I haven't even begun to think about them, I spent the morning christmas shopping in the city and just now got home. Tomorrow I have to be out again....
DeleteHappy Writing, Everyone!
ReplyDeleteThe Happy Whisk; thank you from all of us.
DeleteEven from lazy Sean. ;-)
Delete"To think about the technique I was taught to learn in the way they did, it was completely good! Yet often reading I get lost...!"
ReplyDeleteLooking very much forward to yours, which I know will be much better!!!
P.S. I have an important addendum to the Ukraine-post... Reckon you´d want to see (it´s English).
DeleteI get lost sometimes, too, if there are too many distractions!
DeleteOffer me a distraction, and I shall take it. ;-)
DeleteIris; at school I learned the old way too, children behaved and listened to the teacher and we passed weekly testing and the teacher could see by thta testing who learned and who needed more help, so he or she could plan lessons for the next week to include things that others needed more time with. Distraction in the classroom generally was not allowed.
DeleteI think in rural places children behave at school still. But in big cities teachers have a very tough job, you often can read in online news, sometimes it´s even on TV. Sad. But that´s what happen when the parents refuse to learn the German language and teach their children women are less worthy... or worse, they are the rulers...
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ReplyDeleteHow did I develop my unique piano technique you ask. I think that it was simply that I was taught the right way by a practitioner who was completely in love with her craft. She happened to live in Adelaide and had twin granddaughters. Learning to play with her was like learning to write with William Shakespeare or Dickens. My fingers moved over the keyboard and nothing else seemed to exist. It was like reading summer clouds, lost in the heavenly blue above.And if I may, I would like to express my eternal gratitude to Ms Elsie Hamburger. Without her guidance, I would never have been appearing here on the stage of The Sydney Opera House tonight.
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DeleteYorkshire Pudding: No hi ha com tenir una bona professora. ;-)
DeleteIf I'd had such a good teacher, I might not have given up on music.
DeleteCaughing with amusement, my face is heavenly blue.
DeleteA while ago it went pale then blushing red, when noticing you'd for already three weeks been trapped in Omnium's dungeon of oblivion.
Enjoy the concert, Neal. You deserved it.
Yorkshire Pudding; this is wonderful, though I wish I knew this Ms Elsie Hamburger, she sounds a lot like me, but I don't have the music in me. Thank you.
DeleteI think technique can be taught but I think
ReplyDeletethe only way to learn to write is to read,
and I see writing and reading as completely related.
One almost couldn't exist without the other.
[With thanks to dear John McGahern, who would today celebrate his 91. birthday. Sláinte, John!
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Sean: Totalment d'acord amb aquestes afirmacions. ;-)
DeleteThe best reading/writing program I've used to teach a child to do both is the Spalding Method, called The Writing Road to Reading. It only teaches mechanics, however, learning how to put the words together in a pleasing manner, well, that's years and years of reading great literature, saturating your mind with it.
DeleteNice use of your prompts.
Sean Jeating; thank you for this excellent piece. I agree reading is the way to writing, for once you can read, you can learn to form the letters and know that you have made a word, then a sentence, and so it goes.
DeleteI will have story up on Friday, the 14th. For some of you it will already be Saturday the 15th
ReplyDeleteDora; I look forward to reading it.
DeleteHi River - here's mine:
ReplyDeleteLearning to write with a fountain pen, usually a Parker pen, and blue ink, which sometimes turned a heavenly blue when it was mixed, inadvertently, with a green one. Splodges of colour appeared along with new letters …
I certainly couldn't exist without reading, in fact I'd be lost without it. Thinking back I've no idea whether I was taught to write, read in a particular way (no technique that I remember) – perhaps I was lucky and was able to pick both up and could disappear off to a corner with a book and just read, our make notes in a journal …
Writing now that was another matter … I wanted to copy a friend's handwriting when I was 12 or 13 … now I can hardly write legibly. Thankfully typing came along – oh lucky us to be born in this age … we can lie under the sky and appreciate the world around us.
Thanks for the words Sean, and River for posting them - cheers Hilary
Hilary: Màquines d'escriure intel·ligents, això fa que puguis escriure un text amb mil faltes d'ortografia, que elles ho arreglen tot sense pensar ni fer-hi res. O escriure amb la IA i que ella treballi amb unes paraules ben escrites o no; mentre nosaltres podem estar panxa enlaire... Visca la tecnologia! :-(
DeleteTe n'has sortit molt bé. ;-)
Hi sa Lluna - I'm afraid I'm lost ... sadly only speaking/reading in English. You do mention IA I see ... perhaps another day I'll check. Cheers Hilary
DeleteParlo català, castellà, francès i una mica d'italià, ves per on quasi res d'anglès!. Ho sento molt, Hilary! Salutacions.
DeleteHilary; highlight the text then right click and select "translate selection to English"
Deletesa lluna; I don't like the idea of smart typewriters, they might fix spelling to American version instead of English, or vice versa. Anyway I think people shuld learn how to spell.
DeleteRiver: Crec que no és qüestió de llengües, cadascú aprèn a llegir i a escriure de la millor manera que pot o que li ensenyen. No sé gaire anglès, tot i que m'agradaria aprendre tots els idiomes (gairebé impossible a la meva edat), el que sí hi hauria d'haver és un traductor una mica més fiable per a tots i com li has explicat a la Hilary, és tan fàcil com clicar amb el ratolí, tot i que no et faci una traducció perfecta. ;-)
DeleteRiver: Ah i tot que ens faciliten la tasca, també prefereixo escriure a mà, com he fet sempre!
DeleteLa meva resposta a la Hilary estava carregada d'ironia. ;-)
Interesting. ;-) My Parker pen HAD to have black ink.
DeleteSean: Jo en tenia de tres colors a la feina, blau, negre i vermell, cadascun tenia la seva funció. ;-)
DeleteHilary Melton-Butcher; I don't remember when I learned to write, but I learned to read at age three, by watching and listening as my mother tried to help my older sister with her first school reader. Sister was brain damaged at birth and took a long time to learn things like this. To make things harder, her language up until school had been German.
ReplyDeleteHi River - yes I wonder how we learn ... at our mother's knee. I was the eldest ... so I guess had more help at the beginning. Your story is interesting ... and on top of that her second language ... thanks for the prompt re translating: time ... I'll try and do that. Cheers Hilary
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