Category Archives Learning Theory
High-Impact Leadership' Symposium to be Held on April 13 http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/newsRelease.php?id=1848
New Paradigm of the Learning Process in era of Globalisation Information and communication technologies (ICT) have effectively revolutionized our society. In the era of globalisation, technology has dramatically penetrated into every area of society and, every aspect of social and cultural lives. But, teaching, and the world of education more generally have not taken the advantage of these changes. We…
Sending American-style education to China could stunt the dragon
Teenage scholar mentors underprivileged kids, leads ethical inquiries, studies world affairs.
KIRAN YADAV of the Financial Express of India reports: That Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner has identified seven types of intelligences in children is not big news. What rather is, that according to researchers only three of Gardener
http://www.financialexpress-bd.com/index3.asp?cnd=3/11/2006§ion_id=16&newsid=18324&spcl=yes
The walls lack a student-of-the-month plaque, an honor roll list and a trophy display case. Outside the classroom, you won't find any school group competing in sports or academic contests. Yet, students flock here every day, year-round. Dozens more are on a waiting list. Welcome to Key Learning Community, the first Indianapolis elementary school to rely on the multiple intelligence…
"The New Creative" Learner. (via BoingBoing) London's Ravensbourne College is creating a new program called the School of Computing for the Creative Industries. The whole of the coursewear is Creative Commons licensed and the school itself is organized via a wiki. I love this description (pronoun disagreements aside) on the school site of what they define as "The New Creative":…