oh my word - I was looking for a specific quote about problem solving I shared with my students today that got my brain puzling over Sally's aframe woes ... and I have found a whole string by the same person that may have relevance to the great aframe dilemna.
Here they are:
Most teachers waste their time by asking questions which are intended to discover what a pupil does not know, whereas the true art of questioning has for its purpose to discover what the pupil knows or is capable of knowing.
It is better for people to be like the beasts...they should be more intuitive; they should not be too conscious of what they are doing while they are doing it.
I'm working very hard to identify what the challenge is about an aframe with Sally. Is she unclear about touch behaviour? On the flat she's fine, on a step, teeter or dog walk it's clear (though often her 2 off is 2 toes off .. which I'm actually fine with. She doesn't really care about doing it a bunch of times while I watch and bite my nails and worry it will never come. I need to just work it through.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
So clarify, simplify and don't give it is my take away from this combo of quotes ...
and, finally, the one that led me on this hunt
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
As I'm not sure what created this issue it's hard for me to know what not to repeat ... however it seems that putting her endlessly on the side of the frame and having her bounce into 2o2o is NOT likely to solve the problem as she GETS what to do in that set up. So these great quotes haven't solved the problem but they have given me fodder to mull over.
Who expounded all this wisdom for me to consider as I ponder the freakin' aframe issues? I'm so glad you asked. Albert Einstein. Yup - a fellow I'm pretty darn sure never even imagined agility let alone pictured aframe issues.
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Hey Andrea,
I just posted about Beckett and his A-frame and dog walk behaviour. Sounds rather similar to your quandry. It was suggested to me to stop using the "target" command so last night we just tried waiting for Beckett to offer the behaviour. It seemed to work but now I have to see if I can get him driving to the position a little faster.
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