1. ELEM 3275 Dr. Brian Housand East Carolina University Balanced Stanley Flat Stanley Online Resources A Balanced Curriculum Your Assignment
2. Here is the book that started all of the fuss. First published in 1964. It is the story of a young boy who is “flattened” by a bulletin board, but it otherwise unharmed. Being “flat” allows him to be able to do new things. Such as being able to be sent places in the mail. In 1995, Dale Hubert, a third grade teacher in Ontario, had the idea to create a Flat Stanley to teach letter writing to his students. Since that time, thousands and thousands of Stanleys have been sent around the world.
3. http://www.flatstanley.com/ Wikipedia on Flat Stanley Flat Stanley Goes High Tech Flat Stanley Goes “Virtually” to the Moon Edutopia on Flat Stanley Flat Stanley Online
16. From the standpoint of the child, the great waste in the school comes from his inability to utilize the experiences he gets outside the school in any complete and free way within the school itself; while on the other hand, he is unable to apply in daily life what he is learning in school. That is the isolation of the school - its isolation from life. John Dewey, 1899
17. For the first time in history, our jobs as educators is to prepare our students for a future that we can not clearly describe.
18. The illiterate of the 21st Century will not be those who cannot read or write, but those who cannot LEARN , UNLEARN AND RELEARN . (Toffler, 1970)
