Australian Museum Audience Research Center (AMARC) has been studying museum visitors and their learning since 1994. Museum learning is a key objective for the Australian Museum. This section contains papers, reports and presentations from a range of AMARC projects.

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Learn to meditate offers many different types of techniques to create inner peace and well being. An easy guide to the best techniques in meditation, affirmations and positive thinking. Reduce stress, worry and depression through this online free how-to-meditate site.

This Learn to Meditate site will hopefully teach your mind how to become more calm and focused. When we meditate our mind becomes recharged with our own positive energy. An individual whom meditates is able to remove and reduce negative and distracting thoughts. This enables the person that meditates to gain greater insight and clarity.

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Thinkfinity is built upon the foundation’s flagship education program formerly known as Verizon MarcoPolo, and the foundation’s comprehensive online resource for literacy, the Thinkfinity Literacy Network.

Thinkfinity reflects the Verizon Foundation’s goal of truly making a difference in the lives of students, teachers, families and the communities in which they live and work.

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LearnOutLoud.com is your one-stop destination for audio and video learning. Browse over 15,000 educational audio books, MP3 downloads, podcasts, and videos–some of which are free to download.

LearnOutLoud.com’s mission is to promote the use of audio and video educational material for personal and professional development by turning ‘dead time’ (time spent commuting, exercising, doing chores, etc.) into ‘learning time.’ Most of us have at least a couple of hours each day where we could be learning a foreign language, deepening our spiritual or philosophical interests or learning about hundreds other different subjects.

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This article is the text of a speech by John Taylor Gatto accepting the New York City Teacher of the Year Award on January 31, 1990.

We live in a time of great school crisis. Our children rank at the bottom of nineteen industrial nations in reading, writing and arithmetic. At the very bottom. The world’s narcotic economy is based upon our own consumption of the commodity, if we didn’t buy so many powdered dreams the business would collapse - and schools are an important sales outlet. Our teenage suicide rate is the highest in the world and suicidal kids are rich kids for the most part, not the poor. In Manhattan fifty per cent of all new marriages last less than five years. So something is wrong for sure. >> Read more

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The Starfall learn-to-read website is offered free as a public service. They also provide writing journals and books at a very low cost that can be used with the website or separately. Starfall materials is an inexpensive way to make the classroom more fun and to inspire a love of reading and writing.

Primarily designed for first grade, Starfall.com is also useful for pre-kindergarten, kindergarten and second grade. Starfall is perfect for Home Schooling.

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You are your child’s first teacher, and understand them better than anyone else. By talking to them, playing with them, and introducing simple skills you can help set the scene for their future development.

The most rapid development of your child’s brain takes place between their birth and the age of two. Your child continues to learn and develop rapidly during the important early years of their life.

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At iKnowthat.com, the goal is to help children discover the magic — and power — of lifelong learning skills.

An active learner will develop meta-learning skills, a resourcefulness that will enable him or her to learn how to learn — rather than to simply memorize facts — for life.

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Lumosity is the brain fitness program designed by neuroscientists that is scientifically demonstrated to improve your memory, attention and processing speed.

New research shows that we can improve the health and function of our brains by flexing our mental muscles. Exercising the brain leads to better brain performance today and healthier brains in the long run.

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The Natural Child Project’s vision is a world in which all children are treated with dignity, respect, understanding, and compassion. In such a world, every child can grow into adulthood with a generous capacity for love and trust. Our society has no more urgent task.

This site covers information and advice on all aspects of “attachment parenting” (raising children with respect and trust), unschooling (trusting the child to set the “curriculum”), and child advocacy (including documents from children’s advocacy organizations around the world). In the Table of Contents, articles are listed by author as well as by topic. There is also a search engine for finding specific subjects.

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