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Metaphor enrichment

Submitted by Anne Dalke on Tue, 09/02/2008 - 2:00pm.

Just to enrich our first feast....
here's a record of the metaphors for the classroom which were offered up in Dalton 2 today. In all of them, the college became the "holding structure" for what we will be doing together, but there were many different ideas and visions for just what that might be, as well as quite a variety of thoughts about where the agency and energy and shape of the classroom comes from....

classroom students teacher
college
adventure adventurers map
forest
dinner party guests host other dinner parties
baby family head of family
 everyone the baby comes in contact with
blank canvas
 paint brush easel
a new home
 furniture rug/floor roof
library books librarian tripod (internet server for 3 colleges)
cold room
 heat thermostat weather
book
 characters plot/conflict library
nest
 worms mama bird
 tree
conference
 presenters convener conference host
dark basement
 friends hanging out t.v. or couch other rooms in the house
fountain drops of water
 spurty thing
 stones
collage pieces glue base
snowball ice particles what holds it together

original snowball

 

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