Date: May 5, 2004 Speaker: Ginni Sackett & Cathy Newman — Can a simple block of wood promote a learning experience? Montessori lecturer, trainer, and Association Montessori Internationale (AMI) examiner Sackett joins Montessori lecturer and administrator...
Date: April 7, 2004 Speaker: Kristina Woolsey, Ph.D — Emerging visual technologies provide the opportunity to develop pervasive visual languages. Seeing, drawing, diagramming and imagining can be established as basic literacies to be developed in schools and to...
Date: March 10, 2004 Speaker: Jane M. Healy, PhD — Computers and TV influence the developing brain,with learning learning-disabled students particularly vulnerable to their positive or negative effects. Moreover, many so-called “disabilities” turn...
Date: February 4, 2004 Speaker: Katherine Stevens & David Drake, Ph.D. — Stevens, an instructional designer, and Drake, a specialist in change initiatives, strategic conversations, and coaching, uncover myths and assumptions about learning and using...
Date: January 22, 2004 Speaker: — A large number of projects attempted to “reform” the educational curriculum between the late 1950’s and the early 1970’s. Currently a writer, Dick Miller was a teacher during that time. He reviews the...