As we learn more about the brain and how it naturally learns, it is essential to devise learning environments that go with the grain of the brain.
John Abbott, Terence Ryan

"Raise Your Voices!" Banner Design Contest

Create and submit a one-of-a-kind banner design to the “Raise Your Voices!” National Student Banner Contest

Our world and our understanding of how humans learn and develop has changed drastically since public education was introduced, over 150 years ago.

To effectively deal with the challenges of the 21st century, we must transform the way we understand and structure education in this country — re-thinking the model based on up-to-date information and current world realities. Join us in sharing new information, raising awareness and taking action for authentic educational change.

Creative Commons Copyright Licenses: Sharing In the Internet Age

Thu, 12/27/2007 - 07:15 -- admin

[[http://www.creativecommons.org|Creative Commons (see site)]] licenses offer a variety of choices in ensuring work can be shared in the proper educational context while preserving ownership and proper use of the copyrighted work. This video provides a great overview for those not yet familiar with Creative Commons licenses.
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Do Schools Kill Creativity?: Ken Robinson speaks

Thu, 12/20/2007 - 19:28 -- admin

Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining (and profoundly moving) case for creating an education system that nurtures creativity, rather than undermining it. With ample anecdotes and witty asides, Robinson points out the many ways our schools fail to recognize — much less cultivate — the talents of many brilliant people. “We are educating people out of their creativity,” Robinson says. The universality of his message is evidenced by its rampant popularity online. Watch it now.
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Education is Inside Out, Upside Down: John Abbott Speaks

Wed, 12/19/2007 - 18:33 -- admin

John Abbott speaks about how schools have it wrong.

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John Abbott is the President of the [[http://www.21learn.org/|21st Century Learning Initiative]], an initiative to facilitate the emergence of new approaches to learning in the United Kingdom.

The changelearning website project emerged from the collaboration of John Abbott and Heather MacTaggart, the Executive Director of [[http://classroomconnections.ca/|Classroom Connections]], a Canadian non-profit educational organization dedicated to optimizing student learning.

Five Minds for the Future

Mon, 12/17/2007 - 16:36 -- admin

We live in a time of vast changes that include accelerating globalization, mounting quantities of information, the growing hegemony of science and technology, and the clash of civilizations. Those changes call for new ways of learning and thinking in school, business and the professions. In Five Minds for the Future, noted psychologist Howard Gardner defines the cognitive abilities that will command a premium in the years ahead:

  • the disciplinary mind – mastery of major schools of thought (including science, mathematics, and history)and of at least one professional craft

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