EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING – Taking on textbooks & tablets with statues, movies, and stickers
Today, on the anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination, I’m again reminded of when I was in eighth grade and went to see Ben Kingsley play him in the classic Oscar-winning film. I remember a big group of us went together and the pain and suffering of India, the world outside of my little town, was indelible. Comparing childhood memories with a colleague recently, he saw the movie too but we recalled the experiences very differently. It was obviously an important film since it was playing on BOTH screens of our tiny respective town theaters (which never happened!). But he had…