This article aims to lay a foundation for the research and practice of machine learning education for creative practitioners. It begins by arguing that it is important to teach machine learning to creative practitioners and to conduct research about this teaching, drawing on related work in creative machine learning, creative computing education,…

In this article, Alfie Kohn discusses four questions about questioning--starting with questions that are more basic, and progressing to some that are "deeper and potentially more subversive of traditional schooling." He begins by considering what questions we should ask students, and encourages teachers to keep questions with…

The author describes four capacities--interpretation, instrumentation, interaction, and inner direction--that are as important as traditional academic subjects in preparing young adults for college and career success. He suggests how high schools should address each of these capacities. For example, to develop students' capacity for inner…

Project Implode has as its goals to gather and create materials, techniques, and strategies that will develop the creative intellectual talent of each pupil. (DB)

The curriculum guide for teaching social sciences to mentally gifted students in grades 4 through 6 centers on concepts related to the development of creativity and productivity and, eventually, of the realization of personal potential through contributions to humanity. Chapters focus on behavioral objectives for learning skills, cognitive…

Art education should be concerned with five categories of behavior: starting, orienting, assimilating, symbolizing and completing. Through these behaviors man develops his intuitive structures of comprehension, awareness, openness, and emotion. The author develops a more comprehensive model in rationale than the six models he examines. (VW)

Through identifying sources and interpreting findings from the fields of medical illustration, psychology, and education, the research described provides the teacher of medical illustration with a framework for promoting in students an active sense of their creative abilities. The need for the study, background information, limitations, and…

Prospective teachers (N = 117) enrolled in an introductory educational psychology course completed questions measuring their perceptions of past schooling experiences, current views regarding the importance of promoting student creativity, and their perceived ability to promote creativity. Statistically significant differences were found between…

This program of studies defines the instructional program to be implemented for elementary and secondary education in Fairfax County Public Schools. The document presents the first two parts of a seven-part curriculum guide series on art. The art program K-12 is designed to stimulate the student's need to create and to express himself in a…

Research is currently underway at the Malmo School of Education dealing with selected aspects of educational objectives in compulsory school at the "gymnasium" and post-"gymnasium" levels. The main thesis is that these schools prepare students with knowledge and specific skills but fail to equip the student with more general skills and attitudes…

This handbook examines in depth the problems facing the increasing amount of leisure time available to individuals. It stresses the fact that creative use of leisure time involves more than play, entertainment, or recreation, but rather, it offers an opportunity for continued growth. The leisure philosophy of the authors is set out in the…