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Get rid of that machine model of the brain. It’s-Robert Sylwester
Posted February 18th, 2008 by carrieannGet rid of that machine model of the brain. It’s wrong! The brain is a biological system, not a machine. Currently we’re putting children with biologically shaped brains into machine-oriented schools. The two just don’t mix. We bog the school down in a curriculum that is not biologically feasible.
Not only is the system upside-down, but by failing to recognize the significance of informal learnin-John Abbott
Posted February 18th, 2008 by carrieannNot only is the system upside-down, but by failing to recognize the significance of informal learning outside of school, it is inside-out as well.
I, like many others, tired myself out working to place the new findings about learning within the pr-John Abbott
Posted February 18th, 2008 by carrieannI, like many others, tired myself out working to place the new findings about learning within the present system. They don’t just not fit; they collide head on.
Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
Thirty years of award-winning teaching in New York City’s public schools led John Gatto to the sad conclusion that compulsory governmental schooling does little but teach young people to follow orders as cogs in the industrial machine.
A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future
The era of “left brain” dominance, and the Information Age that it engendered, are giving way to a new world in which “right brain” qualities – creativity, empathy, synthesizing – predominate. Take note: the future belongs to a very different kind of person with a very different kind of mind.
Failing Our Kids: How We Are Ruining Our Public Schools
Education expert Charles Ungerleider makes our situation plain: Canadians have never placed a higher value on education, but if we do not do something now about the neglect and decline of our public schools, we may lose the benefits that they provide and miss the opportunity to fix them.
John Abbott on Educating for Sustainability
Posted January 31st, 2008 by carrieannJohn Abbott discusses the need for education to address the pressing issue of sustainability.
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John Abbott is the President of the 21st Century Learning Initiative, an initiative to facilitate the emergence of new approaches to learning in the United Kingdom.
John Abbott and Heather MacTaggart Discuss Why Children Concern Us All
Posted January 31st, 2008 by carrieannJohn Abbott and Heather MacTaggart discuss why the education of children is a concern of the whole society.
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John Abbott is the President of the 21st Century Learning Initiative, an initiative to to facilitate the emergence of new approaches to learning in the United Kingdom. Heather MacTaggart is the Executive Director of Classroom Connections, a Canadian non-profit educational organization dedicated to optimizing student learning.
Learning About Learning: A Conversation with John Abbott and Heather MacTaggart
Posted January 31st, 2008 by carrieannJohn Abbott and Heather MacTaggart discuss the need for people to take the time to examine the current research about learning in order to envision and create the best possible system of education.
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John Abbott on Biological Adaptation vs. Cultural Change
Posted January 31st, 2008 by carrieannJohn Abbott speaks on the ways that biological adaptation interacts with human culture.
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John Abbott is the President of the 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 Classroom Connections, a Canadian non-profit educational organization dedicated to optimizing student learning.
