Mr. Kruse's post was about a process by Dan Meyer and his "3 Acts" that he has been following for quite some time now. Mr. Kruse thinks the reason Dan Meyer has so many followers is because his ideas are worth paying attention to. Mr. Kruse decided to focus on figuring out what makes "3 Acts" so effective. He concluded that the video helps make the problem more understandable and relatable to the students, which Kruse calls the "Developmental Learning Theory". Act 2, in Kruse's opinion, is the Act in which teachers struggle with the most because it cannot be planned for which forces teachers to react to student thinking. Kruse suggests that we need to encourage students to apply their thinking to new situations, which is where Act 3 takes over. Students are asked to apply their abstract knowledge to a new concrete situation. This was a very thorough and interesting post for me to read because I liked his correlations between the 3 Acts and the developmental learning theory as well as the Learning Cycle.
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