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Provides full-text access to the ERIC Digest of this name which examines the experiental learning
theories of John Dewey and applies them to the Foxfire readers.
http://www.ericdigests.org/1999-3/foxfire.htm
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What is Constructivism
Part of the website for Society for Constructivism in the Human Sciences, by Michael J. Mahoney,
editor of Cognitive and Constructive Psychotherapies. A concise history of constructivism, from
Lao Tzu to Ken Wilber, and its five basic themes. Introduces the emerging new "integral
movement."
http://constructivism123.com/What_Is/What_is_constructivism.htm
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Teaching Science
Thoughts on inquiry approaches to learning and teaching science.
http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/~chip/teach/resources/science.shtml
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Socio-cultural theory
A collection of links to research and theory on social and cultural dimensions of learning.
http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/soc_cult.html
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Teaching Science Through Inquiry
Digest of an ERIC Clearinghouse article by David L. Haury reviewing inquiry-oriented approaches to
science education.
http://www.ed.gov/databases/ERIC_Digests/ed359048.html
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John Dewey
John Dewey (1859-1952) was an American philosopher and educator whose writings and teachings have
had profound influences on education in the United States. Dewey's philosophy of education,
instrumentalism (also called pragmatism), focused on learning-by-doing rather than rote learning
and dogmatic instruction, the current practice of his day.
http://lrs.ed.uiuc.edu/students/janicke/Dewey.html
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Of Chickens and Projects
A project-based curriculum is intended to improve the environment for learning in schools -- to
give students a fuller spectrum of opportunities for building their strength and confidence as
learners.
http://www.fno.org/nov97/egg.html
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Spinning Webs of Significance
This paper looks at activity systems from the perspective of the World Wide Web and Web publishing.
It discusses notions of value surrounding web artifacts and considers the mediational value to the
developer of anonymous communities that appropriate one's own online artifacts. The author
investigates the significance of referring links from one web document to another, particularly
from the socio-cultural perspective of Activity Theory.
http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/iscrat_99.html
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Inquiry and Problem Solving
A special issue of Focus: A Magazine for Classroom Innovators from the Eisenhower National
Clearinghouse for Mathematics & Science Education.
http://www.enc.org/focus/topics/inquiry/index.htm
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Educational Technology: Media for Inquiry, Communication, Construction, and Expression
Describes a new way of classifying uses of educational technologies, based on a four-part division
suggested by John Dewey: inquiry, communication, construction, and expression.
http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/facstaff/chip/taxonomy/index.html
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"What Have You Learned?": Co-Constructing the Meaning of Time
Learning in science can be seen as part of a continuing cultural process of appropriating the
achievements of the past and transforming them into a resource for creative and innovative
problem-solving in the present and future.
http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/~gwells/Time.html
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Dialogic Inquiry in Education: Building on the legacy of Vygotsky
Vygotsky's theory of learning and development can integrate recent research; by conceptualizing
the classroom as a Community of Inquiry, we can see how collaborative group work, dialogic
knowledge building, and an inquiry-oriented curriculum are essential and interdependent components.
http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/~gwells/NCTE.html
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Paulo Freire and Informal Education
Perhaps the most influential thinker about education in the late twentieth century, Freire has been
particularly popular with informal educators with his emphasis on dialogue and his concern for the
oppressed.
http://www.infed.org/thinkers/et-freir.htm
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Education Quote of the Day
A diverse set of views on education, especially related to goals for student-centered learning.
http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/facstaff/chip/Courses/Eval_IT/quote.html
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Problems with an Inquiry Lesson Plan
A critique of the traditional lesson plan format an inquiry perspective.
http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/projects/inquiry/unitframeworks/ChipPlan.html
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