Sharon Friesen
Dr. Sharon Friesen is a founding partner and president of Galileo Educational Network, at the University of Calgary in Calgary, Alberta. She is also the Vice Dean of the Faculty of Education. More biographical information...
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"We created the resources in this website to inform, to educate and to restore to the young children in our province, in our country of Canada, in the Western world in particular, a rightful place for play and to re-invite people to rethink the way in which young children come to learning." - Dr. Sharon Friesen |
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Welcome |
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"Allowing young children to formulate strong theories about how the world works and be able to put those forward and to investigate those to see if that's exactly how it works or if it doesn't becomes really important." - Dr. Sharon Friesen |
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How Do We Learn? |
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Dr. Friesen says children take great pleasure in discovering the patterns that live underneath quantative systems. |
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Learning Math |
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Dr. Friesen expresses concern about the confusion between structures and playful encounters with deep, rich and meaningful encounters underpinned by theories of learning in early childhood education. | 5:37 | Learning - Setting the Stage |
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Dr. Friesen tells about how by being focused on the underlying purpose of a task, it can change the perspective of all to improve the learning environment. In a later section of the interview (not included in this clip) she suggest teachers look at the type of imaginative engagement, social learning, object play, measurement, quantitative literacy, numeric activities, social negotiation and problem solving that can take place in a task. | 3:39 | |
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Intelligence tests as they are presently designed, are built and very narrow ways of understanding and are a product of the factory mindset of education suggests Dr. Friesen. She states that it is an exciting time because of what we're learning about learning and education and this questions many widely held beliefs about intelligence and the need for intelligence tests. | 4:18 |
