Seamless learning refers to the seamless integration of the learning experiences across various dimensions including formal and informal learning contexts, individual and social learning, and physical world and cyberspace. Inspired by the exposition by Chan et al. (2006) on the seamless learning model supported by the setting of one or more mobile…

Students from suburban Boston schools were participants in a survival trip program. Accompanied by adults, the students were taken blindfolded to areas across town. Their goal was to find their way back to the school. To do this, students had to make full use of their environmental resources. (MA)

Shows how having students write journals about their learning experiences was an effective teaching technique in the primary grades. (RL)

The personalized experiences of two College of Education faculty members in developing an awareness in a culture other than their own are discussed by the authors. The experiences they shared in the "learning by doing" principle and the extensive people-to-people relationships of the World Campus Afloat program were described. (Author/RK)

This article offers both a rationale and method for the implementation of a natural literacy program for preschool children with language disabilities. It reviews research on development of fundamental literacy skills and briefly describes extant approaches to facilitating literacy skills. Tenets of the natural literacy perspective are explained…

Several undergraduate student projects at UCLA are described which incorporate the development of objectives, the formulation of problems, and execution and evaluation strategies in a comprehensive attempt to integrate formal and non-traditional approaches to learning. (EH)

In a summer program in New Hampshire's White Mountains, teachers and interns come to know first-hand the fears that strike at unsuccessful students. (Editor)

Based on Maslow's characteristics of a "peak experience," 162 students in three introductory psychology classes and one personality class were asked to write a two-page paper describing a personal "peak experience." Papers were graded based on adherence to requirements, ability to apply Maslow's construct of the peak…

Presents a career education project offering a real-world experience to sixth-grade students in a shopping mall. Describes development and implementation of the project which provided students with a one-time experience as quasi-store-employees. Discusses follow-up activities and feedback received from children and parents. (RC)

Discusses advantages--and a few disadvantages--of using social sight words (such as "sale,""stop," and "exit") in introducing young children to reading; suggests learning activities involving such words. (GT)

The author reviews the importance of creativity training for children and discusses a project in which three types of metaphors (the direct, the personal, and the integrative) were used to foster creative thought. Activities emphasized sensory expression through predivergent, exposure, conversion, postdivergent, and expresson phases. (CL)

Performance of competency-based learning activities during field experience provided for: (1) the elimination of learning gaps and redundant information; (2) an increase in school-university cooperation; (3) more objective evaluation of teaching-as-career by the student; and (4) facilitation of criterion-referenced assessment based on individual…

Touch down on a no-talking planet to help children explore some sensational experiences with drawing and writing. (Editor)

Demonstrates the variety of trucks and other commercial vehicles used to transport goods and services in the Fort Lauderdale, Florida community, attempts to broaden the students' awareness of career opportunities within the trucking industry, and to provide firsthand experiences in which students could use basic computation, communication and…