Vol. II No.4 * January/February, 1997
(links were valid through April 1997)
Contents
- Announcement: Third Annual Teaching for Intelligence Conference
- New
Horizons International Advisory Board Member Professor Reuven Feuerstein
will be joined by an outstanding slate of presenters in Vancouver, BC,
Canada in March. Don't miss this opportunity to see demonstrations of
research-based techniques that have a dramatic impact on learners of all
age and ability levels.
- Tool Room:
Strategies and Resources
- More new contruction in the Building! The
Tool Room contains a database of the best research-based strategies and
practices. We invite your suggestions and contributions to this resource,
as well as your comments on its usefulness and suggestions for
improvement.
- Window On The Future
- We've done some new construction on the Observation Deck
in the Building. The newest addition is called Window On The Future,
a place where network members share observations about trends and issues that
will affect the future. We begin with:
-- Dr. Jim Botkin: The Club of Rome: A Learning Organization?
-- Glen Hiemstra: What If There Are No Jobs?
We encourage you to write to us and to
the authors with your observations and comments.
- Mind/Brain
Learning Principles
Renate Nummela Caine and Geoffrey Caine
- The 21st Century Learning Inititative has just sent this article to
us. Renate and Geoffrey Caine outline twelve principles that must be
considered in the design of any learning program. Don't miss this
important piece!
- Releasing
the Isolated Warrior
Marlene A. K. Goss, Ph.D.
- Most teachers in the United States are isolated warriors, struggling
to meet their students' needs with an arsenal of tools limited by society
and their own reluctance to change. First appeared in Technos. Reprinted
by permission.
- Partnership Brings Inquiry-Based
Science to Seattle Classrooms
Valerie Logan
Hood
- Scientists are taking part in an innovative program to bring hands-on
science to students, teachers, and families. A National Science
Foundation
grant for Local Systemic Change is making it possible to connect
classrooms with researchers.
- A Picture is
Worth a Thousand Words? Not Necessarily!
Harry Reinert
- Harry Reinert's research into learning styles is now available in the
Building. You can try ELSIE, the simple assessment tool he developed for
use in his classroom. Everything you need to use ELSIE is right here in
the Building. One of our most requested handouts -- just one of the
resources we are assembling in the Building's Toolroom.
- Community
Learning Centers
Dee Dickinson
- Thoughts on the importance of building places that support lifelong
learning and make communities stronger.
Have You Seen . . .
Links to interesting reading and great
resources.
- Kindergarden
- Texas
A&M
sponsors a website with tips on using gardens as a learning opportunity
for young children.
- Learning With New Technologies
- Technology on a Human Scale: Teaching and
Learning in the Information Age is the subject of a two day
conference
sponsored by the Washington Center for Undergraduate
Education.
- NASA Offers Telerobotics Course on the Web
- Get college credit or just drop in on an
interesting distance learning opportunity.
- SPU Distance Learning Opportunities
- Seattle Pacific University now offers busy professionals the chance to take
college courses over the Internet. Thanks to David Kinard at SPU's Division
of Continuing Studies, e-mail: dkinard@paul.spu.edu for telling us
about SPU's online learning community.
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