Author: Robin C. Moore
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780944661246
Category : Environmental education
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A "guidebook for teachers, administrators, designers, and parents on how to create, redevelop, and use naturalized schoolyards." Emphasizing the "value of play and play environments for child development," the book describes the evolution of the "Environmental Yard" at Washington Elementary School in Berkeley, California from an expanse of asphalt into an outdoor classroom, community space and play area populated with hundreds of species of plants and animals.
Natural Learning
Author: Robin C. Moore
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780944661246
Category : Environmental education
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A "guidebook for teachers, administrators, designers, and parents on how to create, redevelop, and use naturalized schoolyards." Emphasizing the "value of play and play environments for child development," the book describes the evolution of the "Environmental Yard" at Washington Elementary School in Berkeley, California from an expanse of asphalt into an outdoor classroom, community space and play area populated with hundreds of species of plants and animals.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780944661246
Category : Environmental education
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A "guidebook for teachers, administrators, designers, and parents on how to create, redevelop, and use naturalized schoolyards." Emphasizing the "value of play and play environments for child development," the book describes the evolution of the "Environmental Yard" at Washington Elementary School in Berkeley, California from an expanse of asphalt into an outdoor classroom, community space and play area populated with hundreds of species of plants and animals.
We're Born to Learn
Author: Rita Smilkstein
Publisher: Corwin Press
ISBN: 1412979382
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
This updated edition of the award-winning bestseller shows teachers how to help students become the motivated, successful, and natural learners they were born to be.
Publisher: Corwin Press
ISBN: 1412979382
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
This updated edition of the award-winning bestseller shows teachers how to help students become the motivated, successful, and natural learners they were born to be.
SelfDesign
Author: Brent Cameron
Publisher: Sentient Publications
ISBN: 1591810442
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
SelfDesign, a methodology developed by Brent Cameron over the past 23 years, is much more than another take-off from traditional teaching methods. It is instead a philosophy and a practice based in the belief that children are natural learners. Cameron uses individualized strategies, specific language tools, and a focus on the positive to shift the very premise on which education is built. Through his stories of learners and families he takes the reader on a tour of a new paradigm for learning-the art and science of SelfDesign.
Publisher: Sentient Publications
ISBN: 1591810442
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
SelfDesign, a methodology developed by Brent Cameron over the past 23 years, is much more than another take-off from traditional teaching methods. It is instead a philosophy and a practice based in the belief that children are natural learners. Cameron uses individualized strategies, specific language tools, and a focus on the positive to shift the very premise on which education is built. Through his stories of learners and families he takes the reader on a tour of a new paradigm for learning-the art and science of SelfDesign.
Informal Learning
Author: Jay Cross
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 111804696X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Most learning on the job is informal. This book offers advice on how to support, nurture, and leverage informal learning and helps trainers to go beyond their typical classes and programs in order to widen and deepen heir reach. The author reminds us that we live in a new, radically different, constantly changing, and often distracting workplace. He guides us through the plethora of digital learning tools that workers are now accessing through their computers, PDAs, and cell phones.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 111804696X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Most learning on the job is informal. This book offers advice on how to support, nurture, and leverage informal learning and helps trainers to go beyond their typical classes and programs in order to widen and deepen heir reach. The author reminds us that we live in a new, radically different, constantly changing, and often distracting workplace. He guides us through the plethora of digital learning tools that workers are now accessing through their computers, PDAs, and cell phones.
Teaching to the Brain's Natural Learning Systems
Author: Barbara K. Given
Publisher: ASCD
ISBN: 0871205696
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 173
Book Description
Uses the brain's five major learning systems--emotional, social, cognitive, physical, and reflective--to provide a framework for designing lessons and determining teaching approaches.
Publisher: ASCD
ISBN: 0871205696
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 173
Book Description
Uses the brain's five major learning systems--emotional, social, cognitive, physical, and reflective--to provide a framework for designing lessons and determining teaching approaches.
Natural Learning Rhythms
Author: Josette Luvmour
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Developmental psychologists who have worked with hundreds of families and teachers for more than 20 years, the Luvmours emphasize how and when learning happens in our children. Revised edition.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Developmental psychologists who have worked with hundreds of families and teachers for more than 20 years, the Luvmours emphasize how and when learning happens in our children. Revised edition.
Nature and Young Children
Author: Ruth Wilson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134088027
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
From adding richness and variety to learning, to redesigning a playground, this highly accessible text will provide early years practitioners with a wealth of ideas on how to foster creative play and learning in the outdoor environment with a focus on interacting with the natural world. Nature and Young Children contains many simple ideas on the type of materials that can be added to encourage observation, exploration and dramatic play, as well as guidance on what early years practitioners can do to help children meet early development and academic goals through outdoor learning activities. Relating to every-day early years settings throughout, the author of this inspirational text addresses topics such as: gardening with young children choosing plants for safety, variety and active learning making outdoor activities and play spaces accessible for children with disabilities involving parents in appreciating and developing the outdoor space and outdoor activities dealing with fears, safety and comfort issues. Presented in an effective way to develop environmentally responsible attitudes, values and behaviours, Nature and Young Children is recommended for all early years practitioners and students.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134088027
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
From adding richness and variety to learning, to redesigning a playground, this highly accessible text will provide early years practitioners with a wealth of ideas on how to foster creative play and learning in the outdoor environment with a focus on interacting with the natural world. Nature and Young Children contains many simple ideas on the type of materials that can be added to encourage observation, exploration and dramatic play, as well as guidance on what early years practitioners can do to help children meet early development and academic goals through outdoor learning activities. Relating to every-day early years settings throughout, the author of this inspirational text addresses topics such as: gardening with young children choosing plants for safety, variety and active learning making outdoor activities and play spaces accessible for children with disabilities involving parents in appreciating and developing the outdoor space and outdoor activities dealing with fears, safety and comfort issues. Presented in an effective way to develop environmentally responsible attitudes, values and behaviours, Nature and Young Children is recommended for all early years practitioners and students.
Igniting Student Potential
Author: Angus M. Gunn
Publisher: Corwin Press
ISBN: 1412917069
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Publisher description
Publisher: Corwin Press
ISBN: 1412917069
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Publisher description
Childhood and Nature
Author: David Sobel
Publisher: Stenhouse Publishers
ISBN: 157110741X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
Presents a collection of essays combining anecdotal and theoretical insights into environmental ethics and human ecology to help foster environmentally responsible students.
Publisher: Stenhouse Publishers
ISBN: 157110741X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
Presents a collection of essays combining anecdotal and theoretical insights into environmental ethics and human ecology to help foster environmentally responsible students.
Intrinsically Motivated Learning in Natural and Artificial Systems
Author: Gianluca Baldassarre
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642323758
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 453
Book Description
It has become clear to researchers in robotics and adaptive behaviour that current approaches are yielding systems with limited autonomy and capacity for self-improvement. To learn autonomously and in a cumulative fashion is one of the hallmarks of intelligence, and we know that higher mammals engage in exploratory activities that are not directed to pursue goals of immediate relevance for survival and reproduction but are instead driven by intrinsic motivations such as curiosity, interest in novel stimuli or surprising events, and interest in learning new behaviours. The adaptive value of such intrinsically motivated activities lies in the fact that they allow the cumulative acquisition of knowledge and skills that can be used later to accomplish fitness-enhancing goals. Intrinsic motivations continue during adulthood, and in humans they underlie lifelong learning, artistic creativity, and scientific discovery, while they are also the basis for processes that strongly affect human well-being, such as the sense of competence, self-determination, and self-esteem. This book has two aims: to present the state of the art in research on intrinsically motivated learning, and to identify the related scientific and technological open challenges and most promising research directions. The book introduces the concept of intrinsic motivation in artificial systems, reviews the relevant literature, offers insights from the neural and behavioural sciences, and presents novel tools for research. The book is organized into six parts: the chapters in Part I give general overviews on the concept of intrinsic motivations, their function, and possible mechanisms for implementing them; Parts II, III, and IV focus on three classes of intrinsic motivation mechanisms, those based on predictors, on novelty, and on competence; Part V discusses mechanisms that are complementary to intrinsic motivations; and Part VI introduces tools and experimental frameworks for investigating intrinsic motivations. The contributing authors are among the pioneers carrying out fundamental work on this topic, drawn from related disciplines such as artificial intelligence, robotics, artificial life, evolution, machine learning, developmental psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience. The book will be of value to graduate students and academic researchers in these domains, and to engineers engaged with the design of autonomous, adaptive robots. The contributing authors are among the pioneers carrying out fundamental work on this topic, drawn from related disciplines such as artificial intelligence, robotics, artificial life, evolution, machine learning, developmental psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience. The book will be of value to graduate students and academic researchers in these domains, and to engineers engaged with the design of autonomous, adaptive robots.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642323758
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 453
Book Description
It has become clear to researchers in robotics and adaptive behaviour that current approaches are yielding systems with limited autonomy and capacity for self-improvement. To learn autonomously and in a cumulative fashion is one of the hallmarks of intelligence, and we know that higher mammals engage in exploratory activities that are not directed to pursue goals of immediate relevance for survival and reproduction but are instead driven by intrinsic motivations such as curiosity, interest in novel stimuli or surprising events, and interest in learning new behaviours. The adaptive value of such intrinsically motivated activities lies in the fact that they allow the cumulative acquisition of knowledge and skills that can be used later to accomplish fitness-enhancing goals. Intrinsic motivations continue during adulthood, and in humans they underlie lifelong learning, artistic creativity, and scientific discovery, while they are also the basis for processes that strongly affect human well-being, such as the sense of competence, self-determination, and self-esteem. This book has two aims: to present the state of the art in research on intrinsically motivated learning, and to identify the related scientific and technological open challenges and most promising research directions. The book introduces the concept of intrinsic motivation in artificial systems, reviews the relevant literature, offers insights from the neural and behavioural sciences, and presents novel tools for research. The book is organized into six parts: the chapters in Part I give general overviews on the concept of intrinsic motivations, their function, and possible mechanisms for implementing them; Parts II, III, and IV focus on three classes of intrinsic motivation mechanisms, those based on predictors, on novelty, and on competence; Part V discusses mechanisms that are complementary to intrinsic motivations; and Part VI introduces tools and experimental frameworks for investigating intrinsic motivations. The contributing authors are among the pioneers carrying out fundamental work on this topic, drawn from related disciplines such as artificial intelligence, robotics, artificial life, evolution, machine learning, developmental psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience. The book will be of value to graduate students and academic researchers in these domains, and to engineers engaged with the design of autonomous, adaptive robots. The contributing authors are among the pioneers carrying out fundamental work on this topic, drawn from related disciplines such as artificial intelligence, robotics, artificial life, evolution, machine learning, developmental psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience. The book will be of value to graduate students and academic researchers in these domains, and to engineers engaged with the design of autonomous, adaptive robots.