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The Carnival Parade

Welcome to the first edition of the Active Learning Blog Carnival. I’d like to thank all of the people who submitted articles and suggestions. The image is from Nearing Zero, a great resource for science cartoons.http://www.nearingzero.net/

Recent Articles

Active Learning and Technology: Designing Change for Faculty, Students, and Institutions http://www.educause.edu/apps/er/erm07/erm0752.asp

American Business Hasn’t A Clue – The always controversial Dr. Roger Schank taking on the issue of what we teach http://www.districtadministration.com/pulse/commentpost.aspx?news=no&postid=48635

Theory into Practice

Early Years

The examples in this site show how pre-school establishments and schools in Scotland are already putting in practice active learning approaches. http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/earlyyears/sharingpractice/approachestolearning/learningthroughplay/index.asp

Telling the New Story is a video about a teacher in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, who uses a variety of active learning techniques. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZ8VAef8QM4

High School

Roger Schank’s online high school science program http://vista.engines4ed.org/home/index.htm

Youth Voices – an example of a social networking blog with 1323 active users. http://youthvoices.net/elgg/_weblog/everyone.php

University

Dr. Carl Wieman, the Nobel Laureate physicist has been making the news lately as he inaugurates the Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative at the University of British Columbia. http://www.cwsei.ubc.ca/

Here are two recent news articles about this initiative.

http://www.thestar.com/GTA/Education/article/273356

http://www.publicaffairs.ubc.ca/ubcreports/2007/07nov01/winds.html

Scenes from a classroom- making active learning work has some great videos about getting started with active learning http://www1.umn.edu/ohr/teachlearn/tutorials/active/index.html

Training

Sharp Brains is a website about actively engaging your brain. There are examples of brain fitness techniques as well as articles about brain science http://www.sharpbrains.com/

Individual centred training is a blog article submitted from Human Imprint about the importance of considering visual and verbal learners in your training http://thehumanimprint.typepad.com/the_human_imprint/2007/09/individual-cent.html

Tools for Active Learning

The Common Craft Show – Explanations in Plain English is a great UTube site for people who want to help others understand Web 2.0. Videos include social bookmarking, wikis, social networking and RSS feeds in simple to understand formats. http://www.youtube.com/user/leelefever

Fresh Geeks submitted some ideas to encourage young children to develop their creative skills http://www.freshgeeks.com/uncategorized/fresh-minds-kids-and-digital-art.html

Blog Worth Watching

A blog with an innovative approach to active learning will be featured each month. This month blog is:

Future Making Serious Games is a great overview of how serious games are being used in education and includes some stunning visual images. http://elianealhadeff.blogspot.com/

Next Carnival Submission Date: December 2nd, 2007