Playing on the Edge Here I discuss a structured learning activity, in the broader curriculum of canoeing, that allows for a range of skill levels to engage in, and be challenged by. At Flying Moose Lodge, after campers have had some experience and instruction on how to do the basic C- and J- strokes, and [...]
Why Ruddering is Good: There’s a certain structure to learning any task. As educators, we are often cognizant of ”inefficient” moves, or the “wrong way” to do things (that we may have gone through or done ourselves when learning), and we often try to squash guide learners around these moves. I argue that sometimes it’s [...]
Falling Over I believe we are failing in teaching our students how to fail. We learn quite effectively through failure. When we remove failure from learning, we have to rely on other ways to get lessons across. Here’s one way we teach failure at camp. One of the first things we let campers learn at [...]
My first summer, in 1993, at Flying Moose Lodge, Harrie 4 gave me the dubious job of “taking care of tents” which I thought was something of a ridiculous task. But throughout the summer, I inspected, fixed, assigned, checked-in, and maintained all the Eureka tents that the camp used on trips. It *was* a ridiculous [...]
As some know, I’ve spent the past 15 summers at a deep woods camp in Maine called “Flying Moose Lodge.” I’ve also turned it into my doctoral research, made researching its history into a sort of hobby of mine. As such I scanned in Harrie B. Price III’s book A Bad Case of Moosepox. Here’s [...]
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