Linear thought processes that dominate educational systems now can actually retard learning for brains developed through game and web-surfing processes on the computer.
Peter Moore, Inferential Focus Briefing (September 30, 1997)

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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.

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