Kagan Training

It was interesting.  The workshop was too focused on elementary – I wasn’t the only one that felt that way – and not enough on high school.

I need to sit down and look at the materials, as there is some things at the beginning of the year where doing some group work might be good.

Basically Kagan is very structured group work, getting kids to discuss things and work together.  Since I tend to do the opposite in computer science – have the students work independently and give them more work than they can accomplish, Kagan isn’t as useful as it could be.

However, it was interesting.

Oh, and their software was amusing.  Several things weren’t set up well, and she said – well just run it this way – and I couldn’t help myself, I had to comment loudly, well, why couldn’t they just write the program right.