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Are children getting dumber? Donald Hirsch &nbsp; 4th June 2009 &nbsp;—&nbsp; Issue 159 While Britain’s annual exam standards row rages on, the most important question is ignored: what should our children learn? <!– –> Discuss this article at First Drafts, Prospect’s blog The familiar sounds of an early English summer are with us once again. Millions of children sit down to Sats, GCSEs, AS-levels, A-levels and a host of lesser exams, and the argument over educational standards starts. Depending on whom you listen to, we should either be letting up on over-examined pupils by abolishing Sats, and even GCSEs, or else making exams far more rigorous. The chorus will reach a crescendo when GCSE and A-level results are published in August. If pass rates rise again, commentators will say that standards are falling because exams are getting easier. If pass rates drop, they will say that standards are falling because children are getting lower marks. Parents like myself try to ignore this and base our judgements on what our children are learning. But it’s not easy given how much education has changed since we were at school. Read more at www.prospectmagazine.co.uk

Design Research & Resources Contact Member Login Welcome to the Institute for Learning The Institute for Learning (IFL) focuses on what it takes for all students in public school districts to become enthusiastic, effective, and independent learners as well as how educators can inspire, foster, and sustain high levels of achievement in their students. Research in education demonstrates that, by working hard, virtually all students are capable of high achievement. These findings have caused educators to recognize the primacy of effort, rather than following ingrained assumptions about innate aptitude. Effort-based education research has started to demonstrate that properly focused student efforts not only yield high achievement for all students, but can actually create ability. People can become smart by working hard at the right kinds of learning tasks. Read more at ifl.lrdc.pitt.edu

PDF] The Social and Technological Dimensions of Scaffolding and Related …  - [ Traduzir esta página ] Formato do ficheiro: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Ver em HTML 2004, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. COMMENTARY. The Social and Technological. Dimensions of Scaffolding and Related. Theoretical Concepts for Learning, … hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/19/06/19/PDF/A117_Pea_04_JLS_Scaffolding.pdf - Páginas semelhantes de RD Pea - 2004 - Citado por 150 - Artigos relacionados Read more at www.google.pt

Detailed view  Export this paper BibTeX - EndNote - TEI - RefWorks -   NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Computer-Based Learning Environments and Problem Solving, held in Leuven, Belgium, September 26-29, 1990, Leuven : Belgium (1990) Augmenting the Discourse of Learning with Computer-Based Learning Environments Roy D. Pea 1 (1990) Computer tools for learning are often thought of as providing practice in working with symbolic representations. We exemplify a different perspective in which the technology augments the kinds of learning conversations that can take place. Research from the Optics Dynagrams Project illusmates contributions from this perspective. I will describe pre-intervention learning environment characteristics and student learning, our design strategy for new activities and technologies to address problems we observed, and results with a classroom field test of our redesigned learning environment. In the Dynagrams learning environment, small groups of students work with a software simulation of phenomena of geometrical optics. They observe optical situations in the world or laboratory, use dynamic diagramming tools to make predictions and arguments to justify them based on scientific principles, definitions, or prior experiences, and test these predictions in runs of their simulation models. The dynamic diagrams become symbolic vehicles for externalizing student cognitions for peers and teacher, as well as the topic for negotiating group and individual understanding toward physics norms. The pedagogical goal is to have students become better able to engage in appropriate conversations about the conceptual content they are investigating. Such inquiry-focused discourse is a fundamental part of learning environments in authentic practices outside schools; our aim is to examine ways for augmenting such learning conversations in schools. 1:  Institute for Research on Learning Institute for Research on Learning Subject :  Computer Science/Technology for Human Learning Humanities and Social Sciences/Education Keyword(s) : learning theory – classroom discourse Attached file list to this document:  PDF A63_Pea_92_NATO.pdf(1.1 MB) Read more at hal.archives-ouvertes.fr

Roy Pea About Books (4) Papers (1) Research Interests (1) Close Learning Sciences Status Updates (0) Websites (7) Close DIVER Project: http://diver.stanford.edu H-STAR webpage: http://www.stanford.edu/dept/h-star/cgi-bin/hstar.php International Society of the Learning Sciences : http://isls.org LIFE Center: http://life-slc.org/ LSTD PhD Program: http://ed.stanford.edu/suse/programs-degrees/cross-area-lstd.html Media X Program: http://mediax.stanford.edu Personal webpage: http://www.stanford.edu/~roypea Keywords (30) Fostering learning in the networked world—the cyberlearning opportunity and challenge: A 21st century agenda for the National Science Foundation (Report of the NSF Task Force on Cyberlearning) Add Comment 9 Views Like it Liked it (1) Undo Pea, R., with Christine L. Borgman (Chair), Hal Abelson, Lee Dirks, Roberta Johnson, Kenneth R. Koedinger, Marcia C. Linn, Clifford A. Lynch, Diana G. Oblinger, Katie Salen, Marshall S. Smith, Alex Szalay (2008, June 24).  Fostering learning in the networked world—the cyberlearning opportunity and challenge: A 21st century agenda for the National Science Foundation (Report of the NSF Task Force on Cyberlearning). Arlington VA: NSF, 62pp. Fullscreen Download (.pdf) Read more at stanford.academia.edu

Computer-Based Learning Environments and Problem Solving  - [ Traduzir esta página ] Computer-Based. Learning Environments and Problem Solving. Edited by. Erik De Corte. University of Leuven. Center for Instructional Psychology and … hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/19/05/70/PDF/A63_Pea_92_NATO.pdf - Páginas semelhantes de E De Corte - Citado por 25 - Artigos relacionados - Todas as 5 versões Read more at www.google.pt

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