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On learning if you haven't seen them the National Academy of Science press has a number of books for free download starting with How People Learn that are worth reading

Best

Joe

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On Dec 9, 2013, at 1:32 PM, Louis Rawlins <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

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> My apologies.
> 
> I should re-iterate, since I noticed my sentence was a little clunky: I'm
> suggesting that we focus on environment, topics and supporting student's
> capacity to learn.
> 
> What I'm saying is that, what's happening *Instead* is that we are focusing
> on "teaching" over the students
> 
> 
> As a reference in additional support, I found this to be a good read
> recently:
> 
> 
> *The Anti-Education Era: Creating Smarter Students through Digital Learning
> by James Paul Gee*
> http://www.amazon.com/The-Anti-Education-Era-Creating-Students/dp/0230342094
> 
> 
> Contrary to the title, it goes way beyond just "digital" learning into why
> certain way of creating critical learners is not working, including
> cultural bias.
> 
> 
> 
> Peace,  Louis
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 7:55 AM, jbellina <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> This comment is an example of one of the core problems.  We cannot serve
>> knowledge, people do not receive knowledge, they construct for themselves
>> based on their experiences, in the world, in the classroom, and in the
>> museum and science center.  As long as we think in terms of delivery of
>> knowledge, we are doomed to have dumb students.
>> 
>> Read Ted Ansbacher.
>> 
>> joe
>> 
>> Joseph J. Bellina, Jr. Ph.D.
>> Emeritus Professor of Physics
>> Co-Director
>> Northern Indiana Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Collaborative
>> 574-276-8294
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>> On Dec 8, 2013, at 2:33 PM, Louis Rawlins wrote:
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>>> we already know what needs to be done and it just deserves a little
>>> tweaking in how we serve it.
>>> 
>>> I'd argue that we need to look more at how people are receiving this
>>> knowledge and how we can facilitate that best.
>> 
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