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		<title>Are Your Art Lessons Dragging?  Are You Looking for Resources?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:37:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane Scaiff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This web site might help revive the doldrums of your midwinter Canadian art program.  Check it out. <a href="http://sdscaiff.wordpress.com/2012/01/24/are-your-art-lessons-dragging-are-you-looking-for-resources/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sdscaiff.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5227991&amp;post=892&amp;subd=sdscaiff&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Problem Solving and Ill-Structured Problem Solving</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 01:15:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane Scaiff</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[mathematics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[ill-structured-problem-based solving]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[McMaster University Medical School]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new job]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[How well can children be taught to solve problems?  Can they be taught to discern when a problem cannot be solved and why?  How soon can a child be introduced to ill-structured problem solving?  <a href="http://sdscaiff.wordpress.com/2012/01/16/problem-solving-and-ill-structured-problem-solving/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sdscaiff.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5227991&amp;post=866&amp;subd=sdscaiff&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why do we have a Free Universal Educational System?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 21:35:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane Scaiff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[purpose]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[universal education]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The why of education will determine the how.  Why do we want our children educated?  To become good citizens?  To be knowledgeable and thoughtful about their world?  To meet labour market demands?  To be appreciative consumers of the arts?  A little of this and a little of that?  As a society we need to pull back from asking the schools to do it as a reflex whenever a problem springs up and ask ourselves: why do we spend the money and time on educating all our children? <a href="http://sdscaiff.wordpress.com/2012/01/11/why-do-we-have-a-free-universal-educational-system/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sdscaiff.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5227991&amp;post=858&amp;subd=sdscaiff&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>KEEPING THEM WARM AND DRY:</title>
		<link>http://sdscaiff.wordpress.com/2011/12/27/keeping-them-warm-and-dry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 22:14:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane Scaiff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[canoe camping]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[CLEAN AND STYLISH IS NOT AN OPTION If you have done a fair bit of canoe camping yourself, then you already know how to do this for yourself.  The only difference is that children can chill quickly . for more &#8230; <a href="http://sdscaiff.wordpress.com/2011/12/27/keeping-them-warm-and-dry/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sdscaiff.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5227991&amp;post=851&amp;subd=sdscaiff&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>THUMP, SCREAM, SPLASH: SAFETY    Part three of Camping with Kids</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 02:04:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane Scaiff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[canoe camping]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[panic]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The very first thing that keeps a child safe is the child’s competence in her environment and her ability to stay calm and think.  What is important is that your children learn not to panic, to rescue themselves first and &#8230; <a href="http://sdscaiff.wordpress.com/2011/12/18/thump-scream-splash-safety-part-three-of-camping-with-kids/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sdscaiff.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5227991&amp;post=842&amp;subd=sdscaiff&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Guess Who Is Stronger in Math?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 21:40:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane Scaiff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[gender]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mathematics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[debunking myths]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two articles on a subject dear to my heart: the first is a summary by a journalist, the second is the original academic article.  Before you get excited, remember that the plural of anecdote is not evidence.  I think that &#8230; <a href="http://sdscaiff.wordpress.com/2011/12/13/guess-who-is-stronger-in-math/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sdscaiff.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5227991&amp;post=831&amp;subd=sdscaiff&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>OOO GROSS!  Part Two of Camping with Kids: Feeding Them.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 22:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane Scaiff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[canoe camping]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[beans and rice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The second big challenge when you take your kids canoe camping is feeding them.  Will their response be "oooo gross" or" I'm hungry, when do we eat next?" <a href="http://sdscaiff.wordpress.com/2011/12/11/ooo-gross-part-two-of-camping-with-kids-feeding-them/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sdscaiff.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5227991&amp;post=827&amp;subd=sdscaiff&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>And Now for Something Completely Different</title>
		<link>http://sdscaiff.wordpress.com/2011/12/05/and-now-for-something-completely-different/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 22:50:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane Scaiff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[behaviour]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Canoe camping and how to educate a child to grow in responsibility for his behaviour and safety. <a href="http://sdscaiff.wordpress.com/2011/12/05/and-now-for-something-completely-different/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sdscaiff.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5227991&amp;post=799&amp;subd=sdscaiff&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas in a Whisper</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 15:51:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane Scaiff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A teacher of Christian background questions the necessity of hiding Christmas in the name of respecting all religions. <a href="http://sdscaiff.wordpress.com/2011/12/05/christmas-in-a-whisper/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sdscaiff.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5227991&amp;post=796&amp;subd=sdscaiff&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Being young is a fault which improves daily. Swedish proverb</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 22:22:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane Scaiff</dc:creator>
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