Good – Antonia Malchik
“Two years ago, the Albermale County school system in Charlottesville, Virginia, moved forward with a rather bold experiment: They abandoned traditional explicit instruction in all summer school classrooms, replacing classic lesson plans with student-directed Maker Camps—an educational subset of the Maker Movement…Increasing research suggests that to connect words with purpose, it helps to directly work with the hands…The best path to literacy might be very simple: use your hands and know that the words will follow.”(more)