John Hardy's List: Educational Research/Reference

Wikipedia article on various theories and models of Learning Styles, as well as critiques of those models.

Information about learning styles and Multiple Intelligence (MI) is helpful for everyone especially for people with learning disabilities and Attention Deficit Disorder. Knowing your learning style will help you develop coping strategies to compensate for your weaknesses and capitalize on your strengths.

The intentional Learning Orientation Construct (LOC) is a multidimensional representation offering an elaborated view of factors influencing individual learning differences. Learning orientations describe an individual's disposition to approach, manage, and achieve learning intentionally and differently from others.

Click on links for "Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants" and "Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants Part II: Do They REALLY Think Differently?"

Being born into a culture saturated with things digital is not a complete blessing despite the eager claims of digital drum majors and pied pipers. Neither is such immersion an automatic state of grace.

LIFE is a multi-institution NSF Science of Learning Center hosted at the University of Washington in partnership with Stanford University and SRI International. The LIFE Center seeks to develop and test principles about the social foundations of human learning in informal and formal environments with the goal of enhancing human learning from infancy to adulthood.

The American Institutes for Research was commissioned by the Pew Internet & American Life Project to conduct a qualitative study of the attitudes and behaviors of Internet-using public middle and high school students drawn from across the country.

I would like to spend a little time exploring the landscape of our burgeoning electronic culture, the effects this landscape might have on the growing minds of those who are born into it, and the implications for educators.

During the 2001-02 school year one of these teams conducted an extensive classroom observation study in 34 schools to determine the degree to which "powerful teaching and learning" (also called constructivist teaching or authentic instruction) was present in the schools.

CARET bridges education technology research to practice by offering research-based answers to critical questions.

The National Library of Virtual Manipulatives (NLVM) is an NSF supported project that began in 1999 to develop a library of uniquely interactive, web-based virtual manipulatives or concept tutorials, mostly in the form of Java applets, for mathematics instruction (K-12 emphasis).

This is an approach that uses art to develop critical thinking, communication and visual literacy skills kids can transfer to other subject areas.

"After 25 years of incorporating technology in the learning space, we still may not have figured out how to do technology-related professional development that helps teachers use computers as part of the instructional process. After 25 years of having computers in schools, we still lack an approach that ensures teachers truly understand the benefits and appropriate uses of computers for instruction and that teachers actually use technology as part of teaching and learning."

"This website has been developed by Helen Barrett and Jonathon Richter of the University of Oregon's Center for Advanced Technology in Education, to support reflection for learning in education, from early childhood through higher education and into the professions."

Flash app showing how active & dynamic the Social Web, Mobile Industry and Game Business is.