The Creative Learning Exchange encourages a view of education for primary and secondary schools based on discovery as the essence of the learning process and advocates systems education implemented through learner-centered learning.

The CLE facilitates communication among teachers and schools to help create a network of schools using systems education. It solicits teaching materials and ideas from participating teachers. The CLE will make such materials available at cost to educators. Some of the currently available materials include: Read the rest of this story »

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Did you know that the games you play with your toddlers and preschoolers can influence their interest in learning math and science as they grow older? Young children are capable of learning such concepts as big and small, high and low, fast and slow, and heavy and light. By helping your children learn these concepts, you are helping them begin to learn about math and science.

This page provides some ideas for what parents can do to develop their preschooler’s interest in math and science.

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Are you Web-savvy? You may already use the Internet to e-mail friends and find the latest information on movies, news, sports, or music. Take the Internet Basics Quiz to determine what you know about the Internet and its uses. Then explore the other sections of Web Research Guide to build on your prior knowledge and learn the skills you’ll need to do effective research on the Web.

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The Internet, or Web (the terms are used almost interchangeably) is one of the richest and most powerful research tools available to educators and learners, enabling users to access a vast array of information from anywhere in the world.

Unfortunately, the Internet is also incredibly complex and is constantly gaining new resources and new tools. But is this information reliable? How do learners find what they need? How do they know what is important and what is not? Educators must be savvy Web researchers in their own right. These resources are useful starting places to further learning about Internet searching — for both educators and young learners.

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source: KidsSpace by The Toronto Public Library

Step 1: Getting ready, preparing

NOTE: Do you know exactly what you have to do? If not, ask your teacher. Then follow these easy steps. Read the rest of this story »

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The Big6™ is an information literacy curriculum, an information problem-solving process, and a set of skills which provide a strategy for effectively and efficiently meeting information needs. Developed by Michael Eisenberg and Bob Berkowitz, it can be used whenever students are in a situation, academic or personal, which requires information to solve a problem, make a decision or complete a task.

This official Big6™ Web site provides overview and in-depth information about the Big6™ Skills. The site is aimed at educators, administrators, parents, and anyone else interested in helping students to learn and use essential information and technology skills.

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The original Learning 2.0 Program was created to support The Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County’s Learning 2.0 Program; a discovery learning program designed to encourage staff to explore new technologies and reward them for doing 23 Things. Since the program’s launched, it has fostered Learning 2.0 programs all over the world.

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5min is a place to find short video solutions for practical questions and a place for people to share their knowledge.

The idea behind 5min is very simple: any solution can be visually explained in no more than 5 minutes. The goal is to create the first communal Life Videopedia allowing users from all over the globe to contribute their knowledge by sharing visual guides in areas such as arts, business, fashion, sports, health, tech, food, and much more.

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This site, by Priscilla Theroux, is the collected wisdom, experience and research of a lifetime of reaching and serving students and it includes links to many of her favorite websites. The author embodies the qualities of the “lifelong learner” as she continues to add, modify and refine these collections, resources and explanations based on classroom experience and results. As Priscilla says, “I just do it, and constantly modify what I’m doing until it works.” These pages are intended to be used as resources, inspiration and guidance to help educators reach their students in meaningful and powerful ways. Moreover, they are a recognition of the lived philosophy of their creator; education is not about what is taught, but what is learned.

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Funderstanding provides design services to corporate clients such as IBM, MetLife and PBS. The company’s expertise in knowledge management generated millions of dollars of value for its clients. For the past two years the company has leveraged this experience and has been developing technology to aid clients in the development of products for kids. These tools include a research database and a web site to facilitate product testing. The company’s products have won several industry awards. The team is staffed by research and cognitive scientists as well as educators and marketers.

This page on their website is a good collection of information on learning theories and concepts; and how they use it for their work.

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