Laura horan's List: MNW PD - TFU

• The 21st Century Learning Initiative
  http://www.21learn.org
  John Abbott, the president of this  organization, wrote "Constructing
  Learning,
  Reconstructing Schooling" for  the November EL. According to Abbott,
  "inquisitiveness is what drives  children's learning, and constructivism is
  the
  theory that cognitive  scientists have devised to explain how an individual
  progresses from  inquisitiveness to new knowledge." We learn best by being
  motivated to find  out things, to do things, to discover things. The "21st
  Century" Web site  includes lots of resources--including whole books--on
  constructivism.
  

• Harvard Project Zero
  http://pzweb.harvard.edu/
  All about multiple intelligences,  active learning, constructivism, and
  more--how
  do we best help children  learn? David Perkins, whose EL article, "The Many
  Faces
  of  Constructivism," examines a day at the mythical Constructivist  High
  School,
  is the Co-Director of Project Zero; Howard Gardner,  interviewed by Marge
  Scherer
  in the November EL, is the other Co-Director.  Go to Project Zero for
  updates on
  ongoing studies, such as Project SUMIT  (Schools Using Multiple
  Intelligences),
  Creativity and Leadership, and  ALPS (Active Learning Practices for
  Schools).
  

• Research and Development Learning Center
  http://www.lrdc.pitt.edu/research/pol99.htm
  "Establishing  constructivist classrooms takes practice. If students are
  truly to
  become  active learners, then a constructivist approach is not  something
  that
  teachers can pull out occasionally for novelty." So say  Margaret G. McKeown
  and
  Isabel L. Beck in their November EL article. At  the University of
  Pittsburgh,
  where both authors are researchers, this  learning center includes projects
  such
  as "Brain Activations and Learning  to Read" and other fascinating research
  involving functional magnetic  resonance imaging (fMRI).
  

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