Teaching Minds
Title | Teaching Minds PDF eBook |
Author | Roger C. Schank |
Publisher | Teachers College Press |
Pages | 241 |
Release | 2015-04-17 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 0807770906 |
From grade school to graduate school, from the poorest public institutions to the most affluent private ones, our educational system is failing students. In his provocative new book, cognitive scientist and bestselling author Roger Schank argues that class size, lack of parental involvement, and other commonly-cited factors have nothing to do with why students are not learning. The culprit is a system of subject-based instruction and the solution is cognitive-based learning. This groundbreaking book defines what it would mean to teach thinking. The time is now for schools to start teaching minds!
Training Hearts, Teaching Minds
Title | Training Hearts, Teaching Minds PDF eBook |
Author | Starr Meade |
Publisher | P & R Publishing |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780875523927 |
Supplies two needs: (1) profitable, useable material for family devotions and (2) a practical guide for parents helping their children learn the catechism.
Minds Online
Title | Minds Online PDF eBook |
Author | Michelle D. Miller |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 2014-10-20 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 067436824X |
From wired campuses to smart classrooms to massive open online courses (MOOCs), digital technology is now firmly embedded in higher education. But the dizzying pace of innovation, combined with a dearth of evidence on the effectiveness of new tools and programs, challenges educators to articulate how technology can best fit into the learning experience. Minds Online is a concise, nontechnical guide for academic leaders and instructors who seek to advance learning in this changing environment, through a sound scientific understanding of how the human brain assimilates knowledge. Drawing on the latest findings from neuroscience and cognitive psychology, Michelle Miller explores how attention, memory, and higher thought processes such as critical thinking and analytical reasoning can be enhanced through technology-aided approaches. The techniques she describes promote retention of course material through frequent low‐stakes testing and practice, and help prevent counterproductive cramming by encouraging better spacing of study. Online activities also help students become more adept with cognitive aids, such as analogies, that allow them to apply learning across situations and disciplines. Miller guides instructors through the process of creating a syllabus for a cognitively optimized, fully online course. She presents innovative ideas for how to use multimedia effectively, how to take advantage of learners’ existing knowledge, and how to motivate students to do their best work and complete the course. For a generation born into the Internet age, educational technology designed with the brain in mind offers a natural pathway to the pleasures and rewards of deep learning.
Engaging Minds
Title | Engaging Minds PDF eBook |
Author | Brent Davis |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 337 |
Release | 2000-05-01 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1135650381 |
First book to interpret the new perspectives in learning theory (complexity theory, enactivism) into a coherent text for teacher educ. Examines what learning is, its relationship to teaching, how current theories/beliefs enable or constrain one's teachin
Engaging Minds
Title | Engaging Minds PDF eBook |
Author | Brent Davis |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 435 |
Release | 2015-05-01 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1317444299 |
Engaging Minds: Cultures of Education and Practices of Teaching explores the diverse beliefs and practices that define the current landscape of formal education. The 3rd edition of this introduction to interdisciplinary studies of teaching and learning to teach is restructured around four prominent historical moments in formal education: Standardized Education, Authentic Education, Democratic Citizenship Education, Systemic Sustainability Education. These moments serve as the foci of the four sections of the book, each with three chapters dealing respectively with history, epistemology, and pedagogy within the moment. This structure makes it possible to read the book in two ways – either "horizontally" through the four in-depth treatments of the moments or "vertically" through coherent threads of history, epistemology, and pedagogy. Pedagogical features include suggestions for delving deeper to get at subtleties that can’t be simply stated or appreciated through reading alone, several strategies to highlight and distinguish important vocabulary in the text, and more than 150 key theorists and researchers included among the search terms and in the Influences section rather than a formal reference list.
Inventive Minds
Title | Inventive Minds PDF eBook |
Author | Marvin Minsky |
Publisher | MIT Press |
Pages | 231 |
Release | 2019-04-23 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 0262039095 |
Six essays by artificial intelligence pioneer Marvin Minsky on how education can foster inventiveness, paired with commentary by Minsky's former colleagues and students. Marvin Minsky was a pioneering researcher in artificial intelligence whose work led to both theoretical and practical advances. His work was motivated not only by technological advancement but also by the desire to understand the workings of our own minds. Minsky's insights about the mind provide fresh perspectives on education and how children learn. This book collects for the first time six essays by Minsky on children, learning, and the potential of computers in school to enrich children's development. In these essays Minsky discusses the shortcomings of conventional education (particularly in mathematics) and considers alternative approaches; reflects on the role of mentors; describes higher-level strategies for thinking across domains; and suggests projects for children to pursue. Each essay is paired with commentary by one of Minsky's former colleagues or students, which identifies Minsky's key ideas and connects his writings to current research. Minsky once observed that in traditional teaching, “instead of promoting inventiveness, we focus on preventing mistakes.” These essays offer Minsky's unique insights into how education can foster inventiveness. Commentary by Hal Abelson, Walter Bender, Alan Kay, Margaret Minsky, Brian Silverman, Gary Stager, Mike Travers, Patrick Henry Winston
Comforting Hearts, Teaching Minds
Title | Comforting Hearts, Teaching Minds PDF eBook |
Author | Starr Meade |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9781596384651 |
Starr Meade enables families with school-age children to participate in satisfying devotions together by taking them through The Heidelberg Catechism--explaining its answers in short devotional readings accompanied by relevant Bible passages.