My new article speaks about my experience with educational technology and why eLearning is
key in modern education.
These considerations led Whitehead to suggest that a fundamental
weakness in modern education is its failure to exploit the value for education of exposure to the arts.
Podcast interview with Adele Diamond on how insights about the brain are challenging basic
assumptions in modern education; from American Public Media, 19 November 2009)
One of the most intractable
problems in modern education is how to close the widening gap in attainment between the haves and the have - nots.
As we turn away from percentages and the 100 - point
scale in the modern education world and instead embrace rubrics and smaller grading scales, let's shed light on some of practices that are hitting or missing the mark.
Though the role of the federal government would be curtailed, there are some very important national functions that must be
served in a modern education system.
John Dewey felt a time - honored and common sense belief was being left
behind in modern education: that people learn most when they are actively involved in their learning and find the material relevant and attractive in some way.
In modern education, however, teachers play a role not only as educators who give students content knowledge, but also mentors who help students seek and question the meanings and values of what they are and what they want to be.