Jul 22, 2020
So I finally got around to watching this, so here’s this.
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So I finally got around to watching this, so here’s this.
The prototypical Apple demo person is someone I’ll call Apple Man. Apple Man is a fortysomething dad who just wants to FaceTime his adorable children while he’s on a business trip, and also find a local pourover coffee shop while he’s in town. Apple Man has an Apple Watch (obvious). He needs a way to manage his photos of his adorable children and hiking trips with friends. He loves jogging and mountain biking and wants to use his Apple Watch to monitor his workouts, because he LOVES working out. Apple Man is very fit for his age — you can just barely tell he’s totally ripped through his light blue, off-the-rack, wrinkle-free, button-down shirt. Apple Man has a great head of hair. Apple Man owns his home and wants to be able to open his garage door from his phone to park his family-sensible-yet-sporty-crossover. (He’s on the Tesla Model 3 preorder list.) He wants to make brunch plans, and it would be great if he could add a brunch plan to his calendar app directly from text messages. Apple Man wants to track his health, but of course he has no need for a period tracker. His calendar is full; his inbox is zero.
my friend and hero, Katie Notopoulos
The Apple Demo - reinforcing the importance of HANDS-ON learning!
Rationale: To reinforce the importance of HANDS ON activities in the ECE environment. Not dittos and flashcards! You are going to walk your audience through the different ways their children can experience an apple. This is a great activity to do with parents at back to school night. As they move from Room #1 with a real apple through to Room # 4 with aflashcard of the word “a-p-p-l-e” they will come to experience first hand how the real teaches everything and flashcards, dittos and worksheets teach nothing!
You Need:
Real Apples of many colors shapes and sizes
Plastic Apples
Copies of an Apple drawn on a ditto (include the stem and leaf as you draw it)
Copies of A-P-P-L-E written on a paper like a “flashcard”
A white board or a black board
To Do:
You are going to pretend you are the teacher and that the parents are your kids!
ROOM ONE
Welcome to your first day of school!
This is room #1 and today we are talking about apples….
(give each participant a real APPLE)
Over the next few weeks we will cut them, taste them, paint them, plant seeds, etc. etc.
But first we are going to eat them…!!
If your child’s experience, here with me, of the concept of APPLE was this, (hold up the apple and take a bite) what kinds of words might you hear in the classroom?
(As the participants holler out words write them on the board…please know that you might need to eat one yourself to get some words going)
You will get words like: red, juicy, green, sweet, sour, bruised, stem, sticker, etc
Keep generating words until you have accumulated a pretty substantial list. Make sure you get the word STEM up there. Add it yourself if no one else does. You will see why as we progress.
Then move on to…
ROOM TWO
Welcome to your first day of school!
This is room #2 and today we are talking about apples….
(give each participant a FAKE plastic APPLE)
If your child’s experience, here with me, of the concept of APPLE was this, (hold up the fake apple) you’ll notice it’s a little different than room #1….what words won’t you hear?
ERASE the words that you wouldn’t hear… (make sure at least one of the fake apples has a stem so that “stem” stays on your list… you’ll see why in a minute) Juicy? No. Red? Yes. Green? Yes. Bruised? No. Seeds? No. Etc…
Go through the whole list and then move on to…
ROOM THREE
Welcome to your first day of school!
This is room #3 and today we are talking about apples….
(give each participant a ditto w/ an APPLE drawn on it complete with leaf and stem)
You’ll notice it’s a little different than room #1 and room #2….If your child’s experience of APPLE was this, (hold up the ditto) what words won’t you hear?
Again….ERASE the words that you wouldn’t hear… (again - make sure at least one of the fake apples had a stem so that “stem” stays on your list… you’ll see why in a minute) Red? No. Green? No. Stem? Yes. Bruised? No. Sticker? No. etc. etc…
Go through the whole list and then move on to…
NOTE: by now “stem” is probably the only word up there.
ROOM FOUR
Welcome to your first day of school!
This is room #4 and today we are talking about apples….
(hold up your A-P-P-L-E flashcard)
You’ll notice it’s a little different than room #1, 2 and 3….!!
Let me ask…If your child’s experience of APPLE was this, (hold up the flashcard)
What is your child going to learn about apples?
PAUSE AND LET THE ROOM REALIZE THAT THE ANSWER IS…
“NOTHING”
They will not be learning anything.
Summary:
By this time, the only word left up there (if any) is probably “stem”… and now even that will be erased. There is no word you can attach to this flat conceptualization of an apple.
Again….the main point to stress here is that children need experiences to attach words to! (Jane Healy, Endangered Minds) What is my vested interest in learning about an APPLE or how to spell it or recognize it in print if I have never eaten one, smelled one, tasted one, painted with one, planted the seeds, picked one off a tree, cut one, made one into a pie….
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