Reference - Education - Methods and Theories

Reference - Education - Methods and Theories

ED 626: Software Design and Authoring - Education 626: Educational Software Design and Authoring
Tips for Rapid Instructional Design - Some tips, tricks, and techniques for rapid instructional design.
Training Supersite - A resource for training professionals with information on research, materials, education and employment.
An Educator's Guide to Evaluating The Use of Technology in Schools and Classrooms - Being able to evaluate curriculum, particularly technology based curriculum is essential for instructional designers. This entry level publication guides developers through the evaluation process, providing guidance in the how's and why's of evaluation.
UMUC-Bell Atlantic Virtual Resource Site for Teaching with Technology. - Provides information about using the web to design and deliver interactive online courses.
Glossary of Instructional Strategies - Design and planning resource for classroom teachers, instructional designers, and professors of education. The glossary lists, describes, and provides links for over 600 educational strategies, theories, and activities.
Interactive Learning Online - This is a simple graphic tutorial about online learning by a company that sells design and hosting services.
Enrichment Games and Instructional Design - Essay by Robert Nagle that attempts to justify the use of computer games for instructional purposes.
Visualizing Earth - Has examples and recommendations for developers interested in creating instructional modules for authentic investigations in geography and geology.
Instructional Designers Forum - Forum for individuals to discuss instructional design.
Principles of Instructional Design Web-based Resources - A list of links concerned with information and resources on Instructional Design.
Educational Development Resource Centre - The EDRC contains a large number of resources for the improvement of teaching and learning in higher education.
Instructional Design Bibliography - Citations to classics in instructional design along with recent articles tracking current trends.
Nydek Accessibility Options - Provides information, advice, consultancy and tutorials on accessible website design and planning. Aims to promote more accessible websites for disadvantaged users with assistive devices.
Resources for Thoughtful Educators - Over forty articles on topics ranging from brain research and science inquiry to school facility planning and Native American culture curriculum.
Multimedia Instructional Design - Design course for those who intend to incorporate multimedia into training for engineers, educators, and managers.
Teachers' Learning Center - Information on distance learning in cooperation with Portland State University, including graduate level education classes.
International Association of Information Technology Trainers - Features certification information, training materials, membership directory and application.
Daniel DelGesso, Ed.D. - Project management in instructional design, training, education, and adult learning.
Vector Instructional Design: Gallery - Specializing in the development of training materials including Web-based training, CD-ROMs, and classrooms.
The Training Doctor - Serves the field of workforce development, corporate education and adult learning through instructional design, training consulting and evaluation
Instructional Design - Media resources from the multimedia instruction course from Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Instructional Design - University of Houston's introductory course to the theoretical, experiential, and critical components of the instructional design process for computer-based instruction.
Edge Interactive Total Training Solutions - Specializes in multi-lingual web based (WBT), computer based (CBT) and instructor led training, online and distance learning, instructional design, and multimedia production.
Distance Education: Discovering Instruction in Cyberspace - Commentary and links on distance education programs in higher education.
Instructional Design Models - Instructional design methodologies and techniques.
Instructional Design Models - Presentation on designing models.
Visualization Techniques - Information about visualization techniques and how to effectively improve a person's level of understanding of abstract concepts.
Instructional Theory and Design - Educational Research Room at Scott's Library.
Instructional Technology Essays - Essays on instructional technology and learning by Robert Nagle.
Ritmia - Describes a form of music education and of motion activity aimed to bridge a gap left by the traditional teaching methods.
Introduction to Motor Behavior and Control - PowerPoint Presentation.
Implicity - A different model of human learning changing the role of educational technology.
John Dewey and Informal Education - Read about the life and works of a man considered to be the father of educational philosophy.
The Epistemology and Learning Group (MIT) - Explores how new technologies can enable new ways of thinking, learning, and designing.
Instrumental Enrichment / Mediated Learning - Based on the work of Israeli psychologist Reuven Feuerstein who developed his theory in the late 40's through his work with children who were orphaned or separated from their parents as a result of the Holocaust.
Aesthetic Realism - Article by teacher Leila Rosen on her success using the Aesthetic Realism teaching method.
BrainConnection.com - An online source of information about the brain for educators, parents, students and teachers.
Educational Theory - Quarterly journal of philosophy of education and related disciplines.
Learning and Teaching - Explores major and current themes in the learning and teaching process from an international and comparative perspective.
Total Human Development Model (THD) - An integrated philosophy, psychology and technology of education which provides the foundation for the entire learning organization. Specifically, the THD model provides philosophy of learning, levels of respect, levels of responsibility, psychology of learning, and technology of learning.
Meta-Intelligence - An infinite number of connection possibilities in the brain permits formation of unique patterns of thinking -- creating an unlimited unlimited potential and a diversity of learning styles. Meta-Intelligence Institute consultations and publications.
Music Learning Theory - Information and explanation of how we learn and when we learn music.
Aesthetic Realism of Eli Siegel as Teaching Method - The aesthetic realism of Eli Siegel as a teaching method through which students (K-12) can learn.
Youth Motivation using Natural Learning Environments - Motivating "at-risk" youth by employing natural learning environments consistent with the "learning personality" of the individual student rather than with traditional "schooling" models.
Dr. Thomas Armstrong - Educator and psychologist in the fields of multiple intelligences, explanation of "the myth of ADD/ADHD, and the natural genius of kids". Suggests strategies for nurishing each child's unique developmental potentials.
Manipulative Visual Language - System and theory for teaching English to deaf children.
Education for Sustainable Development - Approach to the whole curriculum and management of a school from sustainable development theory.
Diversified Learning - Suite 101 topic about the many ways people learn through methods utilized in teaching gifted and talented as well as at risk students.
Desuggestive Learning - Describes desuggestive learning and offer advice on how to use it.
Perspectives on Learning - Learning and developing learning environments based on behaviorism, cognitism, and constructivism.
Intentional Learning Projects - Describes projects, research and articles addressing mass customization and personalization issue (adaptive learning) for E-LEARNING (Web, WBT, CBT, etc.)
About Learning Theories - Briefly examines some theories of how people learn.
Kolb's Learning Style Inventory - As you consider continuing your education, you should identify your learning style's strengths and weaknesses by taking the inventory.
Roof On Fire - Report of a training course on experiential learning, including methods and theory.
Classical Education Theories - Articles on the educational theories of Charlotte Mason, Maria Montessori, Dorothy Sayers, Mortimer Adler, E. D. Hirsch and David Hicks, with a focus on classical education.
Chaos Theory and Education - Describes how chaos theory can impact educational theory. Explains chaos theory and gives examples in education.
Business Thinking Meta Model - Describes the model which is composed of three thinking patterns such as proactive thinking, reactive thinking, and passive thinking.
Education: Public or Private Goods? - Examines theories that argue that learning in education is either a private or public good.
Infed.org - Resource for educators and others interested in informal education, youth work, community development and lifelong learning.
Learning and Instruction: The Theory-Into-Practice Database - Descriptions of about fifty learning theories.
Learning Theories - Links to learning theory sites.
How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School - E-text of a 300-page 1999 National Academy of Sciences report. Recent research provides a deep understanding of complex reasoning and performance on problem-solving tasks and how skill and understanding in key subjects are acquired.
No Homework - Campaign to stop homework in public schools. Includes reasons why homework should be abolished.
Using Outcome-Based Education in the Planning and Teaching of New Information Technologies - Details how outcome-based education can be useful for library instruction.
The Truth About Homework - The negative impacts of homework on students. Includes opinions, polls, message board, and links.
Waldorf FAQ - Basic introduction answering 23 frequently asked questions about this type of education.
Waldorf Education - A Growing School Movement - Brief introduction to the method with list of appropriate links.
Waldorf Resources - Information for present and prospective Waldorf school parents.
Peter Normann Waage Answers Allegations - Anthroposophical response to Nazi-allegations against Rudolf Steiner and anthroposophy. The excesses and excrescences of Waldorf critics.
Head, Heart, Hands: A Waldorf Family Newsletter - Collection of articles on issues in Waldorf education.
Online Waldorf Library - Searchable database of Waldorf education resource materials.
The Waldorf Way - Feature story in Boston Globe Magazine on Waldorf education.
Schooling the Imagination - Article from the Atlantic Monthly describing Waldorf education.
School With Balance - Education Week 10/18/95 - Article on this type of education deriving from a visit to the Pine Hill Waldorf School in New Hampshire.
Waldorf Education List - Mailing list with some 800 participants on Waldorf educaion.
Waldorf Education Home Schooling List - Discussion forum for homeschoolers whose philosophy and curriculum are inspired by the writings of Rudolf Steiner.
Waldorf Resources - A guide to Rudolf Steiner's Waldorf educational philosophy. This site offers resources for homeschoolers and traditional schoolers alike.
Waldorf Inspired Students at Home - Provides lesson plans and support materials for homeschooling based on the Waldorf model.
Waldorf Education: Learning With Rhythms - Describes the way rhythms are used as a methodical pedagogical tool in Waldorf education.
Teaching About Computers in Waldorf Schools? - Discusses approaches to teaching about computers under the Waldorf methodology.
Emerson College - England; an international Adult Education College for art and science, based on the work of Rudolf Steiner.
Association of Waldorf Schools of North America (AWSNA) - An association of independent schools working out of the pedagogical indications of Rudolf Steiner. Provides support for developing Waldorf schools, and a central resource for information on Waldorf education.
Waldorf School Association of Ontario (WSAO) - French and English guide to Waldorf education in Canada.
Steiner Waldorf Schools Fellowship - Association of Steiner Waldorf Schools in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
Constructivist Learning Design Paper - Describes the constructivist approach to "designing for learning" rather than planning for teaching. Includes sections on constructivist learning design and educational precedents.
Constructivism in Science Education - Links, essays and information on constuctivism, by the Virginia Association of Science Teachers. Contains links to other web sites and essays/journals on constructivism. Some information on Piaget and Vygotsky.
Constructivism: From philosophy to practice - Contains sections on Constructivist Epistemology, Learning Theory, Characteristics of Constructivism, and Constructivist Checklist for educators.
Constructivism Mind Map - Constructivism Mind Map. Describes overall principles, goals of constructivist education, and the roles of teachers and learners.
Constructivism - A very comprehensive list of links to essays, articles and other resources on constructivism. Includes a section on "Opposition to the theory."
Constructivism Links - Very comprehensive site. Contains links to other sites on constructivism. Includes sections on Sociocultural Theory, Enactivism, Postmodern Thought as well as links to information about Bartlett, Seely Brown, Bruner, Dewey, Fisher, Hanley, Piaget, von Glaserfeld, and Vygotsky.
Holistic Education - Tasmanian WWW Site - Official site of the Holistic Education Network of Tasmania created to discuss the application of the principles and practice of holistic education to teaching and learning.
Great Ideas in Education - Great Ideas in Education is the joint website of Holistic Education Press, Psychology Press, and the publishing division of the Foundation for Educational Renewal.
Holistic education @ the encyclopedia of informal education - A scholarly article on Holistic Education. Answers the following questions: What is holistic education? What are the primary philosophies that distinguish it from traditional education? Who were the pioneers in holistic education?
Inquiry-related Web Sites - A resource site at Farmington Public Schools, Farmington, MN.
Institute for Inquiry - Database for inquiry resources including articles, speeches, presentations, and links; a project at the Exploratorium, San Francisco.
Learning Paths - Research and teacher's resources on learning and teaching styles, learning strategies, learner autonomy, metacognition, motivation, with particular reference to language learning but with ample opportunities for cross-curricular work.
First Hand Learning, Inc. - First Hand Learning is a non-profit corporation founded to promote inquiry teaching, learning from direct experience, and closer links between cultural institutions and schools.
Learning Strategies Database Home Page - computerized version of information on learning strategies compiled by personnel of the PLUS Program and Center for Advancement of Learning(CAL) at Muskingum College over a ten-year period. The strategies information derives from a number of sources, including books, professional journals, and presentations from professional meetings.
The Inquiry Page - A resource allowing educators to share curriculum units and reflections on those units.
Student Inquiry in the Research Process - Developed to assist educators with incorporating information literacy standards and guided inquiry in the student research process.
Science Education and Research for Children - Undergraduates work with teachers in schools and after-school clubs to promote hands-on science learning.
Inquiry Teaching and Learning - Explores the creation of classrooms in which students and teachers are actively engaged in making meaning through personal and collaborative inquiry.
Four Directions - A community of people across 19 schools interested in educating Native American students. Multimedia presentations created by students and lesson plans integrating technology and culture are shared in a common database.
BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium - Supports a network of educators interested in undergraduate biology. The curricula provide opportunities for students to learn biology by posing problems, developing answers for their own problems, and persuading their peers that their answers are valid and useful.
Science Learning Network - Community of educators, students, schools, science museums and other institutions demonstrating a new model for inquiry science education. Contains a variety of inquiry posed problems, information, demonstrations, and labs.
Whole Language Umbrella - A group that studies whole language theory and practice in teacher support groups, encourages collaboration among teachers, researchers, parents, administrators and teacher educators, and promotes whole language theory, curricula and policies.
Global Schoolhouse - A major contributor to the philosophy, design, culture and content of Internet-based learning; collaborates with individuals, schools, businesses and community organizations to design, develop, and manage collaborative learning projects.
TERC - A nonprofit R&D organization committed to improving mathematics and science learning and teaching; TERC is internationally recognized for creating innovative curricula, fostering teacher professional development, pioneering creative uses of technology in education, contributing to educators' understanding of learning and teaching, and developing equitable opportunities for underserved learners.
Collaborative Action Research Network - Devoted to action research; has a web site, discussion list, annual conferences.
Dialogues in Methods of Education - An informal community of educators interested in open dialogue about their problems related to teaching. Two-day conferences are held in March and October. The primary interest is in searching for solutions to the "everyday problems" of classroom teachers.
Social Studies Education: National Council for the Social Studies - Social studies resources and information.
Center for Highly Interactive Computing in Education - An interdisciplinary group of faculty, staff, and students at the University of Michigan. They develop learner centered software tools and curriculum founded on the pedagogy of inquiry, or project-based science.
The Exploratorium Institute for Inquiry - Provides workshops, programs, on-line support, and an intellectual community of practice which afford science reform educators a deep and rich experience of how inquiry learning looks and feels.
Science Network News - A newsletter devoted to dialogue with children about their science questions; the archive contains detailed responses by the late science educator, Jack Easley.
Inquiry Almanack - Archives of a monthly magazine for science education; naturalists, wildlife, longitude and latitude, and dissection.
Networks: An On-line Journal for Teacher Research - The first on-line journal dedicated to teacher research, providing a forum for teachers to share their experiences and learn from each other; has a discussion forum, which includes an archive of messages posted to XTAR, the list for teachers as researchers.
Inquiry and Problem Solving - A special issue of Focus: A Magazine for Classroom Innovators from the Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Mathematics & Science Education.
Education Resources (Action Research/Teacher as Researcher) - A good collection of links from McREL (Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning).
Centre for Action Research in Professional Practice - Concerned with approaches to action research that integrate action and reflection and collaboration; aims include helping practitioners develop skills of reflective practice and communities of inquiry.
Educating as Inquiry: A Teacher / Action Research Site - Resources on action research, literacy, curriculum, and technology.
Resource Based Learning Online - Workshops, presentations and other professional development resources related to resource based learning and information literacy.
Critical and Creative Thinking Program - Interdisciplinary graduate program at UMass Boston providing its students with an understanding of critical thinking and creativity, and with ways of helping others develop these processes in a variety of educational, professional, and social situations. The program appeals to reflective practitioners who want to transform their schools, workplaces and lives and are interested to learn from other students whose interests and backgrounds are diverse.
Classroom case studies - Guidelines for doing classroom-based research on students' learning.
Discoveries, a Multimedia CD-ROM Series - Series of CD-ROMs, each including a 360-degree panorama, maps, multimedia books, and artwork. There are also various activities and extended project ideas. Students have an electronic journal that they use to write about what they learn and a camera to take photographs of anything on the CD.
VisIT - The web is growing in importance as a means for student inquiry. Given this growth and the failure of search engines to adequately cover the nearly billion current pages, better tools must be developed for the location and analysis of information. VisIT is a tool for the visualization of this web-based information.
STAR.Legacy (Software Technology for Action and Reflection) - The Legacy software shell allows the creation of guided generative learning environments that use rich macro contexts as anchors for learning.
Icon Media Productions Inc - Creators of high-quality, curriculum-based software and broadcast media to stimulate "learning by exploring and doing": "One Two TREE" CD-ROM (K-3); "A Home for the Planet" 3 CD-ROMs and Video.
Center for Community Involvement - Miami-Dade Community College - Definitions, rationale, information for developing and executing service-learning and information about the programs and scholarships offered.
Communications for a Sustainable Future Service Learning Virtual Guide - A virtual guide and library of programs, courses, organizations, and resources, specifically concerning higher education, including the discussion group archives.
The International Partnership for Service-Learning (IPS-L) - Information, events and how to join this incorporated not-for-profit organization serving colleges, universities, service agencies and related organizations around the world by fostering programs that link community service and academic study.
American Association for Higher Education Service-Learning Project - Strengthening the educational infrastructure supporting service learning through coalition building and providing resources to those in higher education.
Need in Deed - This non-profit organization works with students, educators and community organizations to prepare youth for civic responsibility and service to others. Our goal is to enable youth to become agents for change-capable, contributing members of their community.
The Big Dummy's Guide To Service-Learning - Simple answers to questions introducing and integrating service learning with faculty, program, student, administrative, and nonprofit issues.
The Joe W. and Dorothy Dorsett Brown Foundation Service Learning Program - Sponsors projects for Louisiana sixth through twelfth grade students. Information on service-learning for students and for teachers.
Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning (MJCSL) - Academic journal containing papers written by faculty and service-learning educators on research, theory, pedagogy, and issues pertinent to the service-learning community.
Facilitating Reflection: A Manual for Leaders and Educators - A useful tool for educators and leaders in higher education, K-12, and community and service organizations. Introduces "reflection" and contains a compendium of compiled activities for educational use in service learning.
Learn and Serve America - National service grant program, part of the Corporation for National Service, that helps support nearly one million students from kindergarten through college who are meeting community needs while improving their academic skills and learning the habits of good citizenship. In addition to providing Learn and Serve grants and scholarships for student service.
Reflection in Teacher Education - A review of literature on reflection, in particular focusing on strategies which assist its development in preservice programs, with a framework for types of reflection as a basis for further research and development in teacher education.
National Service-Learning Clearinghouse - A repository of resources for kindergarten through higher education, including literature, programs, organizations, and links.
Chickscope 1.5 - Students raise chicken embryos in the classroom and obtain magnetic resonance images through the Internet.
Biology Guided Inquiry Learning Environment (BGuILE) - Inquiry-based learning environment for high school biology, using computers to support student investigations.
Developing Inquiring Communities in Education Project - Practitioners and university-based researchers committed to action research and promoting inquiry as a key mode of learning and teaching.
Physics Outreach - A set of projects by the U. of Illinois Physics Department, including Physics Van and Operation Physics, designed to enhance the learning of physics in K-12 classrooms.
Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, Office of - Promotes collaboration in the innovative use of new technologies in mathematics and science education
Illinois Chickscope - A professional development program using the Chickscope approach for P-12 teachers in Illinois.
Museum in the Classroom - Illinois State Museum and Brookfield Zoo provide online access to museum and zoo collections, data, and expertise. Students from partner schools visit the museum and zoo to take digital images of their holdings and meet with the staffs.
The Natural History of Genes - A science education tool for teachers, students and families - Takes cutting-edge science from the laboratory to the classroom. Inquiry-based activities and hands-on experiments encourage investigation and application of science concepts and ways to confront misconceptions about DNA science.The site offers plans for making inexpensive lab equipment and interactive pages where teachers and students can connect with scientists.
"I Don't Know. Let's Do the Experiment": Microscopes, Cells, DNA and You - Hands-on, inquiry science resource for learning about and doing science, and teaching optics, cells, and DNA.
Philosophy for Children - Provides a way to enhance the sense of community that is pivotal to philosophical inquiry in Philosophy for Children; a way to extend community of inquiry beyond the space-time bounds of the classroom; and a way to participate in inquiry on a multitude of levels.
Visual Understanding in Education - A non-profit organization that conducts developmentally-based educational research and disseminates its findings. Its mission is to foster cognitive growth through interaction with art images, through specially designed programs for schools and museums.
Computer Clubhouse Network - An after-school learning environment where young people explore their own interests and become confident learners through the use of technology. Using the "original" Clubhouse as a model, the Computer Clubhouse Network supports community-based Clubhouses around the world
Inquiry-Based Learning and Teaching - Contains curriculum units, interactive programs for students, and links to resources.
Children's Literature Web Guide - Links to authors, books, teaching ideas.
The WebQuest Page - Ideas for using the web for research in the classroom, including the one-computer classroom; web rings to link WebQuest projects.
Informal Education - A resource for community education, informal adult education, community work, youth work, youth development, animation and social pedagogy.
Investigating Chicks Through the Multiple Intelligences - A resource for students and teachers for chicken development activities organized according to Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligence Theory.
Visible Knowledge Program - The educational site of the New Museum of Contemporary Art offers online classrooms and studios to high school students and educators and interdisciplinary lesson plans.
Young Authors Workshop - Children in grades 4 to 7 are taken through the writing process in a step-by-step fashion, beginning with how to find ideas for stories and continuing through finding online markets for publishing those stories.
The National Center for Issues-Centered Education - Introduces teachers to issues-centered approaches to teaching social studies and other school subjects, with the aim of helping teachers create stronger linkages between students' lives and the subjects, topics, issues, and themes they study in school.
CyberEdQuest: Creatures of the Night - Bat and Wolf Webquest and links.
Supporting Critical Conversations in Classrooms - Critical conversations are important because they highlight diversity and difference while calling attention to the nature and role of literacy in our society. This chapter identifies books that are particularly useful for starting and sustaining critical conversations in classrooms.
Internet Databases for Education and Research - Social science and social studies materials organized into broad learning units; for grades 7-12 and college; fee based; password restricted.
Co-nect Teleprojects and Activities - Co-nect's collection of online curriculum involve classrooms from all over the world in project based learning. Most teleprojects are free and open to the public.
Web Links for Inquiry-based Learning and the Internet - A useful collection of links on developing questions, search engines, electronic portfolios, and online instruction.
LEO Launching Education Into Orbit - LEO brings space-based science experiments into the classroom.
iwonder - Inquiry-based site with resources for educators (teaching strategies and classroom realities) and interactive activities.
Ellen Weber, MITA Center, Multiple Intelligence Teaching Approach - Features multiple intelligence curriculum reform for higher education. New Five-Phase Curriculum Approach to implement inquiry based learning, reflective teaching, brain based curriculum, collaborative teaching and roundtable learning.
Service Learning and Social Education Demonstration - A demonstration of Service Learning that promotes the development of our young people as active and contributing community members.
Using the Internet to Promote Inquiry-based Learning - Page supports a staff development workshop on the Internet and inquiry-based learning; developed as a result of an interest in taking Web-based learning to the next level. The workshop empowers teachers with the strategies necessary to make Web learning a truly productive and meaningful experience for their students.
Problem Based Learning - Provides an overview of problem based learning (PBL) and offers a searchable archive of PBL resources.
Movers and Shakers Unlimited - An advocate for children; educational programs that teach young people how to develop their potential and begin a lifelong Journey of Success.
Vermont Community Works - A resource for educators interested in making service learning and social education a core part of the public school curriculum.
Haudenosaunee Iroquois Homework Help - A team of native people provides to students culturally sensitive and factual information about the Haudenosaunee also known as the Iroquois (Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora).
Science Lesson Plans - Lesson plans for physical and life sciences.
Lesson Plans from Smithsonian Education on the Web - topics ranging from presidential elections to ocean ecology to landscape painting, in lesson plans designed for upper elementary and middle school students.
High Performance Charter School Curriculum - Building a coherent and intentional curriculum from the ground up: essential questions, core content, basic skills and "habits of mind" that underlie and connect learning experiences at all levels.
Service Learning: connecting learning through action - Teachers and students will find a list of service learning projects.
Comprehensive Resources for Educators - A variety of teaching resources from the National Council for the Social Studies.
Problems with an Inquiry Lesson Plan - A critique of the traditional lesson plan format an inquiry perspective.
Education Quote of the Day - A diverse set of views on education, especially related to goals for student-centered learning.
Paulo Freire and Informal Education - Perhaps the most influential thinker about education in the late twentieth century, Freire has been particularly popular with informal educators with his emphasis on dialogue and his concern for the oppressed.
Dialogic Inquiry in Education: Building on the legacy of Vygotsky - Vygotsky's theory of learning and development can integrate recent research; by conceptualizing the classroom as a Community of Inquiry, we can see how collaborative group work, dialogic knowledge building, and an inquiry-oriented curriculum are essential and interdependent components.
"What Have You Learned?": Co-Constructing the Meaning of Time - Learning in science can be seen as part of a continuing cultural process of appropriating the achievements of the past and transforming them into a resource for creative and innovative problem-solving in the present and future.
Educational Technology: Media for Inquiry, Communication, Construction, and Expression - Describes a new way of classifying uses of educational technologies, based on a four-part division suggested by John Dewey: inquiry, communication, construction, and expression.
Inquiry and Problem Solving - A special issue of Focus: A Magazine for Classroom Innovators from the Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Mathematics & Science Education.
Spinning Webs of Significance - This paper looks at activity systems from the perspective of the World Wide Web and Web publishing. It discusses notions of value surrounding web artifacts and considers the mediational value to the developer of anonymous communities that appropriate one's own online artifacts. The author investigates the significance of referring links from one web document to another, particularly from the socio-cultural perspective of Activity Theory.
Of Chickens and Projects - A project-based curriculum is intended to improve the environment for learning in schools -- to give students a fuller spectrum of opportunities for building their strength and confidence as learners.
John Dewey - John Dewey (1859-1952) was an American philosopher and educator whose writings and teachings have had profound influences on education in the United States. Dewey's philosophy of education, instrumentalism (also called pragmatism), focused on learning-by-doing rather than rote learning and dogmatic instruction, the current practice of his day.
Teaching Science Through Inquiry - Digest of an ERIC Clearinghouse article by David L. Haury reviewing inquiry-oriented approaches to science education.
Socio-cultural theory - A collection of links to research and theory on social and cultural dimensions of learning.
Teaching Science - Thoughts on inquiry approaches to learning and teaching science.
Constructivism (from Classroom Compass) - Good introduction with geometry examples.
Constructivism (Martin Ryder) - A useful set of definitions and readings on constructivism.
Activity theory - Work of Vygotsky and many others towards understanding human activity in terms of social, historical, cultural, and individual development; includes definitions, readings, links to conferences
ISCRAT - International Society for Cultural Research and Activity Theory - Information about International Society for Cultural Research and Activity Theory, including membership, publications, congresses, society business, and relations to Society for Sociocultural Research.
Activity Theory, an Introduction - Activity Theory originated in the USSR, developed by Russian psychologists Vygotsky, Rubinshtein, Leontjev and Lurija. The theory is a philosophical framework that allows the study of different forms of human practice. The practice can be viewed as developmental processes where both individual and social levels are interlinked.
Centre for Sociocultural & Activity Theory Research - This is a new Centre established in 2000 with the express intention of developing the research field through a multidisciplinary forum. We wish to contribute to and benefit from the community of practitioners and researchers working within the area.
Center for Activity Theory and Developmental Work Research - We coordinate and carry out research and development projects on change and learning in work organizations. We create and apply new conceptual tools for understanding and mastering transformations in work, technology and organizations.
Activity Theory Special Issue - A special issue of the Journal of Computer-supported Collaborative Work on activity theory and design, guest edited by David Redmiles and me, will appear in December 2001.
Mervi Hasu: Critical transition from developers to users - Mervi Hasu's doctoral dissertation - Helsinki University. Activity-Theoretical Studies of Interaction and Learning in the Innovation Process. March 2001.
Spinning Webs of Significance - Martin Ryder's paper looks at activity systems from the perspective of the World Wide Web and Web publishing. It discusses notions of value surrounding web artifacts and considers the mediational value to the developer of anonymous communities that appropriate one's own online artifacts. The author investigates the significance of referring links from one web document to another, particularly from the socio-cultural perspective of Activity Theory.
International Society for Cultural Research and Activity Theory - International association for researchers and practitioners committed to a cultural-historical approach of human development.
Activity Theory: Basic Concepts and Applications - Introduces activity theory, a conceptual approach that provides a broad framework for describing the structure, development, and context of computer-supported activities.
Center for Inquiry - A collaborative K-5 magnet program between the University of South Carolina and Richland County District Two public schools. The Center emphasizes a 'hands on' learning environment and promotes a high level of parental involvement, providing the learning continuity so necessary for success in today's society.
Supporting a Study Programme - Using Repertory Grid interviewing, to measure the student's knowledge and direct the student to the priority areas for learning, to accompany the student in the enrichment of their understanding, giving instant feedback on the growth in their comprehension.
Geography World - A massive collection of links on all aspects of geography by Brad Bowerman.
inQuiry Attic - The Franklin Institute Science Museum has in storage a century's worth of scientific instruments. Each month, it offers an online exploration of an object that would not otherwise be available for the public to see.
CWRU Astronomy Dept: Nassau Station - An online astronomical observatory, including a database of photographs.
Chicken Resources - Resources on raising and hatching chickens in the classroom, chicken embryology, and other poultry resources.
Microworlds - Describes the concept of "microworlds" and their use as tools for learning; includes several examples from the MIT Media Lab.
Proof of Concepts - Addresses techniques teachers can use in developing interactive science instructions for grades 6-12; also holds a dissertation project scheduled to be implemented in January 2000; also parts of a Web-textbook on earth/space science.
Teaching and Learning Resources in Central Illinois - Museums, libraries, nature centers and other resources for teaching and learning in Central Illinois
World Wide Words - World Wide Words. More than 400 pages on the history, origins, evolution and idiosyncrasies of English. New words and words in the news regularly featured.
Project Approach - A comprehensive site on the theory and methodology; contains interactive spaces as well as examples (Sylvia Chard).
Constructivism and the Five E's - An explanation of the five E's approach: Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate and Evaluate (Miami Museum of Science).
Problem-Based Learning - A method in which learners are progressively given more responsibility for their own education. PBL uses real world problems to stimulate learning, and to integrate and organize learned information in ways that will ensure its recall and application to future problems.
Publishing or Programming? Framework for WWW Sites for Kids - Discusses web research and publishing by children, suggesting the use of maps for the work children do on particular topics from launch, through brainstorming and early research, through pilot investigations and expert contributions to the final presentation.
Problem-posing, Problem-solving, Persuasion - The BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium emphasizes the 3 P's of science education: Problem-posing, Problem-solving and Peer Persuasion.
Learning Cycle - A graphic display of the five E's approach.
Instructional Design Models - Comprehensive set of links to major models for instruction.
The Socratic Method: Teaching by Asking Instead of by Telling - An explanation of the Socratic method of teaching by guided questioning.
Problem Based Learning (Maricopa Community College) - An overview, a collection of reviewed web sites and print material, lesson ideas and original publications. Includes a mathematics lesson that involves using the Internet to research the problem underlying an automobile purchase.
If I Teach This Way, Am I Doing My Job? Constructivism in the Classroom - Article describes the value of integrating technology with student-centered, meaningful, and engaging learning experiences based on constructivist theory.
IMSA Center for Problem-Based Learning - The Center was established by the Illinois Math and Science Academy to engage in PBL research, information exchange, teacher training, and curriculum development in K-16 educational settings.
Student Questions: Foundations for Inquiry - Masters thesis reporting a qualitative study on "how science instruction can develop student questions into centerpieces of ongoing classroom inquiry."
Teen Literacy - Young people share stories, poems and other writing with others.
News from Everywhere - Short weekly bulletin of news from everywhere, designed for young people: focus on the main issues behind the headlines. Includes questions for discussion.
Better Grades Today Message Forums - Student and teacher message forums relating to education and inquiry based learning. Includes homeschooling, teacher, student, software, and science forums.
Learning Theories of Instructional Design - Focuses on similarities and differences between behaviorism, cognitivism, and constructivism.
Behaviorism - Behaviorism originated in the field of psychology, but it has had a much wider influence.
Operant Conditioning and Behaviorism - A historical outline.
About Charter Schools - The Center for Education Reform tracks charter school grassroots efforts, legislation and laws, research, and how charter schools are improving academic standards and educational choices for students and parents.
Challenge and Opportunity: The Impact of Charter Schools on School Districts - June 2001 report which is part of a four-year study of the charter school movement in ten states.
National Charter School Clearinghouse (United States) - Assisting in the development and maintenance of successful charter schools through disseminating research and funding information and providing direct technical assistance. Discussion board, current topics, news, newsletter, and upcoming events.
Charter Friends National Network - Publications, contact information, and tools.
US Charter Schools - Resources, how to start and run a charter school, contact information, and profiles of schools.
The Learning Project - A project to create quality schools in low-income neighborhoods.
The Charter School Project - A non-profit organization networking with charter schools to bring about much needed education reform.
Top Schools - Information and resources for charter school founders and for general educational improvement.
Charter School Law - A collection of charter school resources useful to those in or affected by the charter school movement.
Mid-Atlantic Consortium of Charter School - simplify the process of selecting and purchasing products and services for your charter school.
School Choice and Charter Schools - Offers the Heritage Foundation's collection of policy papers on charter schools and education reform, including the comprehensive annual state-by-state analysis of school choice and education reform in the United States.
Charter Schools - Education Week's overview of the movement with a excellent collection of articles and essays.
National Charter Schools Institute - Provides information and training for those starting and operating charter schools.
Charter Schools: Are They Needed? Looking at Both Sides of the Debate - Looks at the charter school issue by examining both pro and con arguments from the educational literature.
Virtual Charters: Public Schooling at Home - K12, a Virtual charter school led by former education secretary, Bill Bennett, provides free curriculum, computers and connections for homeschoolers.
Brains.org - Classroom Application of Brain Research - Serves as a link between current psychological and neurological research and education. Site offers information on current research, articles and a free newsletter.
Caine Learning - Brain based learning web site offers information on how the brain and mind work as well as articles and links to books and videos.
Valiant, Etc. - Resources on brain based learning, scientific inquiry, and Native American curricula. Includes news, forums and user-generated content.
Brain-based Learning - Core principles of brain-based learning are provided along with a brief discussion of each. Instructional techniques are provided with a discussion of the impact on instruction.
Learning to Go with the Grain of the Brain - Present a model of education connected to cognitive research.
Learning Forum - Section about brain-based learning including links to articles.
The International Learning Styles Network - Fosters life-long academic, intellectual and personal success through the promotion and dissemination of research, information, publications and other resources focusing on learning, teaching and productivity styles. Emphasizes the Dunn and Dunn model.
Cognitive Pattern of the Yakima Indian Students - Study of four groups of Indian children suggests that they may learn better spatially and sequentially than by traditional verbal methods.
Oklahoma Institute of Learning Styles - Most of the research and applications are based on the pioneering work of Dr. Rita Dunn and Dr. Kenneth Dunn.
Price Systems, Inc. - All about peoples learning styles.
Seven Learning Styles - Linguistic, logical, spatial, musical, bodily, interpersonal, and intrapersonal learning styles introduced and discussed.
Insight Learning Foundation - Provides tools that help students learn the skills they need to succeed in life.
Abiator's Online Learning Styles Inventory - Free exams, and some explanatory materials to help act on the results.
Gardner's Multiple Intelligences - (non-official site) Immersion in each of the nine intelligences through virtual experiences.
MITA Center - Provides model for practical application of problem-based, inquiry based, constructivism, and reflective thinking in secondary and university settings.
An Explanation of Learning Styles and Multiple Intelligences (MI) - Find out what learning styles are all about and assess your own learning style/MI.
Teacher Training and Coaching - Strengths Based Programs - Offers teacher training and coaching programs to help develop asset building, character building, and personal power for children and families through strengths based programs.
Educating Multiple Intelligences Through Technology - Describes project work, carried out by 1st Year Secondary school students, that combined the theory of Multiple Intelligences with practical work in Information Technology. The aim of the project was to enhance learning experiences in Math, German, Art, and Music.
Handedness and Brain Lateralization - Brain lateralization and functional specializations.
Structure of the Brain - Brief summary.
Right Brain/Left Brain Thinking - General summary of the characteristics of each half of the brain.
Problem-Based Learning (PBL) - An instructional method that challenges students to "learn to learn," working cooperatively in groups to seek solutions to real world problems. These problems are used to engage students' curiosity and initiate learning the subject matter. PBL prepares students to think critically and analytically and to find and use appropriate learning resources.
Problem-Based Learning, Especially In The Context of Large Classes - Download the full text of one author's writings on the subject.
PBL2000 Conference - The Second International Conference on Problem-based Learning in Higher Education, September 2000, in Linköping, Sweden.
PBL2000 - A Conference on Problem-Based Learning in Undergraduate and Professional Education. Samford University invites you to participate in a conference that will explore Problem-Based Learning in undergraduate and professional education. 29-31 October, 2000.
Center for Problem-Based Learning Research and Communications - National and international web site for research and information on Problem-Based Learning. Find who is doing PBL in undergraduate education.
Project-Based Learning and Multimedia - Multimedia adds a vibrant new dimension to project-based learning. Find teacher resources, evaluation reports, events calendar, forum, and examples of student work.
PROBLARC - Problem Based Learning Assessment and Research Centre - The Centre plays an active role in the development of problem-based programs, both within the University and in consultancy to institutions in Australia and overseas. It has established a reputation as one of the leading groups in the field.
Problem-Based Learning - PBL is both a curriculum and a process. The curriculum consists of carefully selected and designed problems that demand from the learner acquisition of critical knowledge, problem solving proficiency, self-directed learning strategies, and team participation skills. The process replicates the commonly used systemic approach to resolving problems or meeting challenges that are encountered in life and career.
PBL Bibliography - Bibliography of the Australian Problem Based Learning Network. Citations are grouped by subject area.
Case Studies in Science - The use of case studies holds great promise as a pedagogical technique for teaching science, particularly to undergraduates, because it humanizes science and well illustrates scientific methodology and values. It develops students' skills in group learning, speaking, and critical thinking, and since many of the best cases are based on contemporary--and often contentious--science problems that students encounter in the news (such as human cloning), the use of cases in the classroom makes science relevant.
UD-PBL-Undergrad Mailing List - This list encourages open discussion on the use of problem-based learning in undergraduate education. One can browse the archives of past posts as well.
Center for Problem-Based Learning - The Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy's Center for Problem-Based Learning engages in PBL professional development, research, information exchange, curriculum development and networking in K-16 educational settings.
The Problem Log - Articles about PBL, in pdf format.
Who Is Doing Problem-Based Learning? - Search through Samford University's database to learn about undergraduate and/or medical school use of PBL worldwide.
PBL Institute for Nurse Educators - Continued education opportunities for nursing faculty interested in the adaptation of problem-based learning in undergraduate nurse education.
Project-Based Instruction in Mathematics for the Liberal Arts - The purpose of this site is to provide projects and resources for instructors and students who wish to teach and learn college mathematics or post-algebra high school mathematics via project-based instruction.
Problem Based Learning - PBL is a curriculum development and delivery system that recognizes the need to develop problem solving skills as well as the necessity of helping students to acquire necessary knowledge and skills. Indeed, the first application of PBL was in medical schools which rigorously test the knowledge base of graduates.
Discover Multiage - Exploration of multiage learning environments through the study of theory, research, and practice.
Problem Solving - Discusses the process and terminology of problem solving.
Problem-Based Learning in Action Technology - A three-year study conducted in conjunction with the Exploring the Environment Project (ETE) using problem-based learning as a means of engaging students in analyzing real-world events.
Learner-Centered Classrooms, Problem-Based Learning, and the Construction of Understanding and Meaning by Students - Summary of details about creating a learning-centered curriculum.
UK Problem Based Learning Initiatives - Provides trigger materials together with information about where problem-based learning is being used in the UK.
Our-Montessori - Collection of resources and games to assist Montessori educators.
Montessori's Own Tale of Evolution - by Aimee Natal. A critique of fairy tales and folk lore in the classroom.
Montessori: In Her Own Words - Fifteen essays compiled by Aimee Natal.
Introduction to Montessori Theory and Practice - Specific elements on which the method is based, such as multi-aged grouping, periods of development, the prepared environment, lessons, and schedules.
Montessori and Homeschool Chat - Chat about these topics.
Montessori at Home - Guide to finding Montessori home schooling links on the internet.
Montessori Homeschooling - A forum about Montessori homeschooling, and links to other sites of value to homeschooling families.
Madam Montessori - Smithsonian Magazine article Maria Montessori. Includes history and observations from current educators.
American Montessori Society (AMS) - National center for Montessori information, with emphasis on team-teaching wherein students work under faculty with strengths in various areas of theory and practicum. School consultation and accreditation protocol, affiliated teacher preparation courses, annual meeting, and regional seminars and workshops for member schools, teachers, administrators, and parents.
National Center for Montessori Education - Stated goals of promoting unity among Montessorians and providing creditable Montessori teacher education programs.
Association Montessori Internationale (AMI) - Organization founded in 1929 by Dr. Maria Montessori to maintain the integrity of her life's work and to ensure its perpetuation after her death. Guidance for AMI training courses, for establishment of schools, for manufacture of approved educational materials, and for publication of Dr. Montessori's books. Organization of congresses and study conferences.
International Montessori Society (IMS) - Promotes commitment to Montessori principles, with emphasis on preparation of the environment and unobtrusive observation in deference to the individual liberty of the student. School consultation and recognition criteria, publications, teacher education, and regional conferences and workshops for teachers, administrators, and parents.
Montessori Association of New Zealand (MANZ) - Resource for parents, educators, and researchers. Teacher training, conferences, news and listing of schools.
Canadian Council of Montessori Administrators (CCMA) - Supports Montessori school administrators in Canada, offering expertise in school administration and the Montessori Method of education.
New South Wales Montessori Association (NSWMA) - Membership association of schools, teachers, and teacher training institutions. Seminars, workshops, publications, and newsletter.
Michigan Montessori Society - The society promotes the philosophy of Maria Montessori and provides resources to teachers, parents, and administrators.
Montessori Teachers Collective - Non-affiliated online community whose members advocate peace, community and children as embodied in the educational methods forwarded by Dr. Maria Montessori.
The Montessori Foundation - Non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of Montessori education in the U.S. and abroad. Programs and resources for parents, teachers, administrators, and board members.
Algebra - Mathematical abstraction from concrete experience - An explanation of how the Montessori student learns algebra while interacting with manipulatives, physical objects, represented by expressions incorporating the numerals and variables of mathematics.
Shu-Chen Jenny Yen's Online Montessori Albums - 240 developmentally appropriate activities for 3-to-6 year old children.
Montessori Math, Age 6-12+ - Introduction and overview of the Montessori method of teaching math to children.

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