Wednesday at Casey, I saw how some kids function better with simplicity. It was good to work with different club members because of this. Some kids like to be told what they're going to be doing next and given guidance. It's a very big change than the go-getter type kids that I've worked with thus far. But, the result was just as impressive, if not more cause it was more of a solo act. Looking through my buddy's pictures was great because it was so simple. There wasn't deep thought put to "take pictures of what Boulder means to you." It was cut and dry, 'here are some pictures of nature, and my dad. That's what I like.' It was funny that the kids were saying that they wanted "simple" pizza rather than fancy stuff, because that was the lesson I learned from working with the kid I worked with: sometimes, simplicity is better!
As a side note, the Michael Duffin lecture did not seem to inspire any new thoughts with our club. It seemed like he was making a sales pitch rather than educating us on participatory planning. What he was saying seemed to contradict what I have learned while working with the Casey kids.
Chelsea
10 April 2008
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