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3.
Building on What We Know - Cognitive Processing
Web-based
readings
All Kinds of Minds. (n.d.). Our perspective:
The approach. Retrieved September
11, 2002.
http://www.allkindsofminds.org/
Bransford, J. D., Brown, A. L., & Cocking,
R. R. (Eds.). (2000). How experts differ from novices (Chapter 2).
In How people learn: Brain, mind, experience, and school.
Washington, DC: National Academy Press.
Bransford, J. D., Brown, A. L., & Cocking, R. R. (Eds.). (2000).
Mind and brain (Chapter 5). In How people learn: Brain,
mind, experience, and school. Washington, DC: National Academy
Press.
D'Arcangelo, M. (1998, November). The brains behind the brain. Educational
Leadership, 56(3). Retrieved 1/12/03.
Five authors of recent books about brain research identify
what they regard as the most important implications of recent
findings in neuroscience and how these ideas can translate to
the classroom.
Greeno, J.G. & Hall, R.P. (1997, January). Practicing representation:
Learning with and about representational forms. Phi Delta Kappan,
78(5). Retrieved 8/27/01, from >http://www.pdkintl.org/kappan/kgreeno.htm
This article describes how knowledge can be represented inside
and outside of the classroom.
LD basics, link on the National Center for Learning Disabilities
Web site. Retrieved September 11, 2002.
http://www.ncld.org.
Related
links
Learning Science Institute
The Learning Science Institute is a basic and applied research
organization that focuses on how people learn, with a special focus
on how learning can be enhanced through new uses of technology and
through innovative teaching practices.
The Learning Research and Development Center –
Research Institute
http://www.lrdc.pitt.edu/
University of Pittsburgh
3939 O'Hara Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
Phone: 412-624-7020
LRDC is a multidisciplinary research center whose mission is to
understand and improve learning by children and adults in the organizational
settings in which they live and work: schools, museums and other
informal learning environments, and workplaces.
The Thinking Classroom
http://learnweb.harvard.edu/alps/thinking/
Developed as part of the Active Learning Practice for School
site and Harvard Project Zero, the Thinking Classroom Web site offers
resources for teachers about how to teach critical and creative
thinking in the classroom.
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