FLOATING CLASSROOM

As one student said while we were kayaking & canoeing down the river, 'It's hard to believe this is CLASS!" The Praxis class I'm beginning to teach this semester (and it lasts for four semesters with the same twelve students) is confirming that I feel called to INTEGRATED (and experiential) learning. We were able to do so much more in one overnight river-camping trip than I think we could have accomplished in half a semester in the traditional classroom. We read, we talked, we observed, we reflected on things as we paddled down the river and sat around the fire on the river beach, and slept under the stars. I'm looking forward to the next two years of learning 'in motion' and 'in practice' together with these great 12 students.

Below is a slide-show of the trip. Each slide is default set for 4 seconds (too long), so you can speed it along by clicking the forward button.

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