John Holt on Big Bird

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It's the 40th anniversary of Sesame Street. I am employed on a news for Fast Company that relates to Sesame Street and I talked to their CEO, metropolis Knell, terminal hebdomad most all the stuff they are doing to try to ready the exhibit firm and bring it to newborn audiences, around the concern and on newborn media. This past assemblage was the prototypal that more grouping saw bits of Sesame Street videos on YouTube, iTunes, and on the Web than on television. There are lots of mutual games online and newborn Muppet characters--one is a rattling girly sound princess and another one, Murray,

Back when the exhibit prototypal came out, in 1971, activity meliorist and "deschooling" exponent Evangelist Holt wrote most it for The Atlantic (thx, Kottke for the link). I quote from Holt individual nowadays in my newborn aggregation DIY U. I conceive his ideas most activity are rattling empowering and relatively liberated of cant. He basically wants institutions to get discover of people's (including childrens') artefact so they crapper ingest their God-given abilities to see what they want to learn, by doing what they want to do.
Holt sounds disappointed in Sesame Street. He says, patch well-intentioned, they're clearly employed from a deficit model that assumes that the prizewinning they crapper do with poor kids of color is blarney them along to change more neatly to the expectations of schools, not unlock a true love of learning.
On the other hand, he also has a lot of shaping suggestions. He wants the exhibit to verify flooded plus of the seeable medium. To exhibit text on the screen patch grouping are talking, to get the intent of reading. To exhibit kids attractive creative, self-directed state and lots of documentary footage from the actual world.
It seems Sesame Street took up some of these suggestions over time. This assemblage they've done something rattling cool for the prototypal time that Holt suggested artefact backwards when: verify the Muppets discover into the actual streets of New York City. (I conceive there were probably technical and budget restrictions on this backwards in the day.) Here's Murray with the "Word on the street" segment:


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