Bus<http://www.amazon.com/Majic-Bus-American-Odyssey/dp/1560254963/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1283474989&sr=8-1>:
An American Odyssey* by Douglas Brinkley ready to go to the beach with me
this weekend. From *Publisher's Weekly*: Six weeks on the road with an
experimental college history class which crisscrossed the country on a
sleeper bus.
I'm looking forward to the reading!
Sarah Hanawald
Cannon School
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 9:24 PM, William New <wnew@novent.net> wrote:
> On Aug 30, 2010, at 1:02 PM, Bassett, Patrick wrote:
>
> > a box with movable parts (chairs, desks, manipulatives, technology, etc.)
>
> Rather than have the inside parts move around inside a fixed box, perhaps
> we should put the classroom inside a big bus or railroad car. That way the
> inside parts stay the same and the outside moves as the bus/train travels
> around seeing different scenery, different cities, different regions.
>
> I am reminded of the sea captain's family who joined him on voyages. Mom
> taught class on the deck, and every day there was a different outside world,
> traveling from port to port, country to country, hearing different languages
> and seeing different peoples.
>
> These kids (like many other children of American expatriates) became Third
> Culture Kids (TCK/3CK) with substantial multi-dimensional advantages over
> stay-at-home kids.
>
> We might think about starting a school in a bus or a train or a ship -- and
> thereby move the outside box instead of the inside parts.
>
> === Bill
>
>
> William New
> Trustee
> Putney School
> Putney, VT 05346
>
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