Book Review: Design for How People Learn, by Julie Dirksen by Clark N. Quinn. “Frankly, this is the best book on learning design I've seen for the beginning designer, particularly those who haven't had the necessary foundations and experience. This is the quick start anyone designing learning should use to get to success the fastest.” I've long been an advocate of matching our learning interventions to how our brains really learn. While there's justifiable skepticism about some of the so-called brain science, work that systematically leverages research in cognitive learning is welcome.
Now, Julie Dirksen, known for her work on usability in eLearning, has written Design for How People Learn, a guide to better learning design, and I have to say it's a really good book! Julie used to work for Michael Allen (CEO of Allen Interactions and author of Michael Allen's Guide to eLearning), and with her own studies into cognition and learning, she really gets the necessary underpinning. A lively, fun, valuable read Don't be misled, however: this is not a stuffy academic book. Teaching Your Child to Love Learning: A Guide to Doing Projects at Home - Judy Harris Helm, Stacy M. Berg, Pamela Scranton. Disrupting Class by Clayton Christensen.
The way we learn doesn’t always match up with the way we are taught. If we hope to stay competitive– academically, economically, and technologically–we need to reevaluate our educational system, rethink our approach to learning, and reinvigorate our commitment to learning. In other words, we need disruptive innovation. Clayton M. Christensen and coauthors Michael B. Horn and Curtis W. Johnson take one of the most important issues of our time – education – and apply Christensen’s theories of disruptive change to K-12 public schooling, using a wide range of real-life examples.
Whether you’re a teacher, school administrator, government official, business leader, parent, or entrepreneur, you’ll discover compelling new ideas, successful outside-the-box strategies, and straight-A success stories. Howard GardnerAuthor of Five Minds for the Future. Alison Gopnik: What do babies think? | The Denver Waldorf School. Professor Robin C. Moore | Natural Learning Initiative. Robin Moore holds degrees in architecture (London University) and urban planning (MIT), and for most of his career has worked in the field of landscape architecture as educator, researcher, and consultant.
Moore is an international authority on the design of children's play and learning environments, user needs research, and participatory public open space design. His designs for children's spaces in the USA include the well-known Environmental Yard, in Berkeley, California (recipient in 1988 of the Outstanding Contribution to the Practice of Design Research by the Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA). As a design consultant, Moore has been involved in the design of the Nature PlayScape at the Cincinnati Nature Center, Kids Together Park, Cary; Blanchie Carter Discovery Park, at Southern Pines Primary School (featured in the New York Times, October 1999); the Playspace family play center in Raleigh; and Playport in the Raleigh-Durham Airport.
Anchor Center for Blind Children: A Charity in Denver, Colorado. Friedrich Froebel (1782–1852) - Biography, Froebel's Kindergarten Philosophy, The Kindergarten Curriculum, Diffusion of the Kindergarten - Children, Established, School, and Education. The German educator Friedrich Froebel is significant for developing an Idealist philosophy of early childhood education and establishing the kindergarten, a school for four-and five-year-old children that is found worldwide.
Biography Friedrich Wilhelm August Froebel was the youngest of five sons of Johann Jacob Froebel, a Lutheran pastor at Oberweissbach in the German principality of Schwarzburg-Rudolfstadt. Froebel's mother died when he was nine months old. When Friedrich was four years old, his father remarried. In 1805 Froebel briefly studied architecture in Frankfurt. From 1810 to 1812 Froebel studied languages and science at the University of Göttingen. In 1816 Froebel established the Universal German Educational Institute at Griesheim. Froebel returned to Germany, where in 1837 he established a new type of early childhood school, a child's garden, or kindergarten, for three-and four-year-old children. Froebel's Kindergarten Philosophy The Kindergarten Curriculum. A Progressive, Independent School in New York City | Blue School. Deborah Meier on Education. Expeditionary Learning | Engaging Students, Transforming Schools.
MUSE School YouTube. MUSE. A Pattern Language. A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction is a 1977 book on architecture, urban design, and community livability. It was authored by Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa and Murray Silverstein of the Center for Environmental Structure of Berkeley, California, with writing credits also to Max Jacobson, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King and Shlomo Angel. Decades after its publication, it is still one of the best-selling books on architecture.[1] The book creates a new language, what the authors call a pattern language derived from timeless entities called patterns.
As they write on page xxxv of the introduction, "All 253 patterns together form a language. " It includes 253 patterns such as Community of 7000 (Pattern 12) given a treatment over several pages; page 71 states: "Individuals have no effective voice in any community of more than 5,000-10,000 persons. " According to Alexander & team, the work originated from an observation that References[edit] External links[edit] Christopher Alexander. Christopher Alexander is Professor Emeritus of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, best known for his seminal works on architecture including A Pattern Language, Notes on the Synthesis of Form, and The Nature of Order, Volumes I-IV.
He is the father of the Pattern Language movement in computer science, and A Pattern Language was perhaps the first complete book ever written in hypertext fashion. He has designed and built more than two hundred buildings on five continents: many of these buildings lay the ground work of a new form of architecture, which looks far into the future, yet has roots in ancient traditions. Much of his work has been based on inventions in technology, including, especially, inventions in concrete, shell design, and contracting procedures needed to attain a living architecture. He was the founder of the Center for Environmental Structure in 1967, and remains President of that Company until today. He was born in Vienna, Austria in 1936. Vittra - International and bilingual schools in Sweden. AOA-BookPressRelease.