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Manner of Speaking · Joined: 09 Jan 2003

I often wonder about how the classroom environment can be altered to make it more conducive to learning; certainly it gets overlooked a lot. This is an interesting article about an experiment in my home town, and I wonder how applicable it would be to teaching children elsewhere:

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060129/balls_classroom060129/20060129?hub=Health

peppermint · Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 9:26 pm Post subject:

Sounds interesting, and I can see how it might work but my students manage to fall off regular chairs a lot. .

caligirl78 · Joined: 26 Jan 2006 Location: Los Angeles

Haha.. yeah, I've had too many head injuries occur 'cause my kids like tilting their chairs. I feel bad but I can't help but sometimes laugh. Laughing

Faron · Joined: 13 Jan 2006

They're copying GOOGLE! Surprised

Return Jones · Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 3:56 am Post subject:

It would be a tragic bloodbath with my clumsy crew of kids! Rolling Eyes

Manner of Speaking · Joined: 09 Jan 2003

The last kid's camp we had the kids broke seven chairs...this might be a cure for their instinct to "beat" the chair.

Hollywoodaction · Joined: 02 Jul 2004

So, it's actually a classroom from Quebec that came up with the idea.

I wonder if it's safe for kids to sit on these things for hours at a time on a daily basis.

OiGirl · Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Location: Hoke-y-gun

Thanks for a great bit of information I was able to share at last week's staff meeting!

Manner of Speaking · Joined: 09 Jan 2003

You're quite welcome. I might actually buy one of those balls myself, I do too much sitting at work, and I'd like to lose some weight. Laughing

VanIslander · Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 6:34 pm Post subject:

the great use of imaginative thinking

innovation would be very hard to impliment in a Korean classroom

doing things the way everyone else is, is the way of business in this here parts