Many, many years ago I developed a book while being a writer for the Individualized Science Instructional System (ISIS) which was entitled Touch the Earth. It was a geology mini-course, part of a large collection of earth, life, and physical science mini-courses for...
Informal learning as a paradigm for classroom learning suggests that learning is holistic, and is steeped in inclusiveness and connectedness. As I suggested yesterday, John Dewey wrote about the importance of an "experiential education" more than 100 years ago, and...
About a week ago, I wrote a post entitled Volcano in Your Backyard, which was initiated by the Governor of Louisiana's comment that spending money on volcano monitoring was an other example of wasteful spending by the government. February 8, 1984, I was on board a...
The nation is about to embark on a path toward economic recovery and reinvestment in the future. I am confidant that we can do this. But to listen to some of the Governor's these days, you would wonder what they are thinking, and why they are letting the citizens of...
The nation is about to embark on a path toward economic recovery and reinvestment in the future. I am confidant that we can do this. But to listen to some of the Governor's these days, you would wonder what they are thinking, and why they are letting the citizens of...
I know that this topic seems a bit out of place, but I wanted to follow up comments made by David Calladine, one of the readers of this weblog. David teaches science in the UK, and specializes in teaching environmental science. One of his entries was in response to...
