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Learning Lessons from the Virus: A Round-Table Discussion
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Benn, Melissa; Bousted, Mary; Glaser, Eliane; Hudson, Jim; Yarker, Patrick – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2021
As it grew safer for schools to reopen fully in spring 2021, "FORUM" convened a roundtable discussion to hear more about the experience of teaching and learning through the pandemic, and how that experience might help us rethink the education system. Melissa Benn chaired this wide-ranging and insightful conversation between Eliane…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Learning Processes, Teaching Methods
"Changing Our Skin": Creating Collective Knowledge in American Classrooms
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Krechevsky, Mara – New Educator, 2012
In this essay, the author explores the notion that the focus of learning in classrooms and schools extends beyond the learning of individuals to create a collective body of knowledge that is larger than what any one person knows. This idea was examined in a collaboration between Project Zero researchers and educators from the municipal preschools…
Descriptors: Reggio Emilia Approach, Young Children, Early Childhood Education, Learning Activities
Approaching Literature through Talk.
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Dolyniuk, Peterette M. – English Quarterly, 1995
Describes two approaches to introducing a novel to elementary students. Maintains that the second approach, which encourages reader response, is more effective than the first, which mandates the learning of 100 new vocabulary words. Describes a discussion technique based on a "discussion web" or map of possibilities that helps students to explore…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Elementary Education, Ethics, Fiction
Using Communication To Develop Students' Mathematical Literacy.
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Pugalee, David K. – Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 2001
Reviews communication as a fundamental component in implementing a balanced and effective mathematics program. Presents a classroom episode in which students solve problems, use rubrics to rate the written response of a peer, and discuss solutions and decisions for rating their peers' papers. (KHR)
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Curriculum Development, Group Discussion, Junior High Schools
Choosing and Using Methods of Teaching.
Whitman, Neal – Performance and Instruction, 1981
Describes a model which recognizes active and passive roles of teachers and learners as a means of identifying five basic methods of teaching. (CHC)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Educational Media, Educational Technology, Group Discussion
Increasing Capacity To Learn in the Learning Organization. Innovative Session 4. [AHRD Conference, 2001].
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Chalofsky, Neal E. – 2001
A workshop was conducted to give participants an opportunity to explore how to apply a different paradigm for learning in organizations. The workshop agenda was as follows: presentation of the theory and supporting research; experiential activities to apply the paradigm in academic and organizational settings; small group discussion aimed at…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Adult Learning, Diffusion (Communication), Educational Research
Community Psychology, Planning, and Learning: A U.S. Perspective on Sustainable Development.
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Perkins, Douglas D. – 1998
An ecological framework for predicting citizen participation in grassroots community organizations and predicting community disorder problems (such as crime and fear) was developed and tested. The framework, which is called an ecological framework for sustainable community learning and development, delineates the relevant economic, political,…
Descriptors: Action Research, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Citizen Participation