http://thelearner.com Just another CommonGroundPublishing weblog Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:55:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en From Elizabeth Green in the New York Times Magazine: ON A WINTER DAY five years ago, Doug Lemov realized he had a problem. After a successful career as a teacher, a principal and a charter-school founder, he was working as a consultant, hired by troubled schools eager — desperate, in ... http://thelearner.com/2010/03/09/building-a-better-teacher/ Innovative Strategies to Develop Better Schools by Prakash Singh is now available from The Learner imprint. Better schools prepare better learners! Can anyone dispute this? Hence, innovative strategies in education are presented in this book with the primary purpose of developing better schools. Key areas covered in this book are: Organisational effectiveness Emotional intelligence Collegial ... http://thelearner.com/2010/03/01/innovative-strategies-to-develop-better-schools/ Cathryn Teasley was a Plenary Speaker at the 2009 Conference. Cathryn Teasley is Adjunct Professor of Curriculum, Instruction and School Organization at the University of A Coruña, Spain. Her work is focused on cross-cultural justice through education, and is reflected in publications such as Transnational perspectives in culture, policy, and education (Peter ... http://thelearner.com/2010/02/15/postcolonial-learning-in-neocolonial-times/ From The Forum on the Future of Public Education In the education portion of the State of the Union speech, Obama emphasized incentivizing success and reaffirmed his committment to community colleges.  He also outlined a number of financial aid reforms, including a $10,000 tax credit and limits on the percentage of ... http://thelearner.com/2010/02/11/many-education-programs-get-boost-in-obamas-budget-proposal/ Author, teacher and commentator Howard Rheingold has made available a four-year collection of bookmarks in educational technology via the social bookmarking service delicious.     http://thelearner.com/2010/02/07/howard-rhiengolds-educational-technology-bookmarks/ From Sujata Gupta, in ScienceNOW Daily News Always stunk at video games? Perhaps you've been cursed with a small striatum, a region of the brain involved in learning and memory. Researchers have found that college students with relatively large striatums learned how to play a challenging video game faster than their ... http://thelearner.com/2010/02/04/your-brains-got-game/ Dr. Denise Newfield's paper, Pippa’s Song: Multimodality and Pedagogic Praxis, commemorates the contribution of Pippa Stein, professor of language education at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg from 1981 to 2008. Professor Stein was a much beloved and respected teacher, academic and researcher, a founder member of the Africa Research Network, a member ... http://thelearner.com/2010/02/02/pippa%e2%80%99s-song-multimodality-and-pedagogic-praxis/ From Josh Karp in Spotlight on Digital Media and Learning Digital media can extend the goals of National Lab Day and help the United States rebuild its lead in science and math. And it’s the love of that process that Hidary and the Obama administration are hoping to instill in school children ... http://thelearner.com/2010/01/29/building-a-nation-of-tinkerers-digital-media-fosters-hands-on-learning-in-science-labs-2/ From Sean Cavanagh in Education Week It is one of the simplest ideas in American education—and one of the most confounding: Elected officials and educators have been talking about establishing national, or common, academic standards for at least a half-century. On its face, the logic of that goal seems incontrovertible. Why should students ... http://thelearner.com/2010/01/27/us-common-standards-push-bares-unsettled-issues-familiar-themes-emerge-in-resurgent-debate-2/ From Zakia Sarwar in Himal Southasian Outdated materials and obsolete techniques characterise Pakistan’s school system. The prescription is a complete overhaul. In accordance with a traditional understanding that continues to be widely followed in our region by many educationists, the process of learning in Southasia today is still largely by rote. As ... http://thelearner.com/2010/01/25/still-terminally-ill/