Don't Limit A Child To Your Own Learning

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Don’t limit a child to your own learning,

for he was born in another time - Rabindranath Tagore

This quote reflects issues that I have been thinking about a lot in the last couple of months. My own learning preference is changing. I have spent my life learning from paper; I would read the labels of soup cans if there wasn’t a book or a newspaper handy. I didn’t realize my learning style had changed until I watched Joe’s Non-Netbook, I still read a lot but most of my reading is online with all the interactivity that implies. I now find newspapers profoundly unsatisfactory because they provide only the briefest of summaries, instead I hear the latest news on Twitter and then go to other sources for details. Many of the textbooks available in my area are out of date by the time they are published and they are increasingly overpriced.

The most significant change for me is my replacing of learning from paper to learning from people, people scattered all over the world, from different backgrounds, and different age groups. People I never would have had access to if the Internet didn’t exist.

So let’s begin this carnival with a video made by high school students in California, talking about what they want in a teacher. Read more at Teacher, Revised.

Creating Lifelong Learners shows you How to Get Started Making Class Movies and shares his series on 10 Myths about Writer’s Workshops.

Continuing her series about student art shows, My Creativity Blog provides us with ideas for Rewarding Student Participation in a School Art Shows.

Thinking in Mind shares student work in Remixing in the Classroom: Student Propaganda Panels.

Sharp Brains examines the role of the art in developing children's brains in Arts and Smarts: Test Scores and Cognitive Development.

Tomorrow’s Professor writes about Ways to Teach Peer Writing and Response, in Any Course and Any Size Class.

TLC Lessons Learned shares what they learned about Increasing Student Engagement.

Craig Fenton wants us to know about A New Use For Twitter, it can be a great writing exercise.

Active Learning in the News

Bright Surf com reports Study shows simple writing assignment improves minority student grades.

New York Times reports on a medical schools conversion of basic sciences in Team Program Is an Experiment in Active Learning.

Resources

English Speaker shares Online Tools for Practicing English Grammar.

Debt Free Scholar shares 9 Essential Free Programs Every College Student Must Have.

Online University Reviews offers 100 Resources to Help You Read Better and Faster.

Online Universities and Colleges provides The Master List of Free Online College Courses.

Top Online Engineering Degree writes about 35 Gmail Labs.

Web 2.0 For Teachers Here you can find a collection of recommended Web 2.0 sites for EFL ESL teachers.

1^stwebdesigner posts 28 Photo Editing Websites to have Fun With.

Thank you to all the people who submitted articles this month. Submit your blog article to the next edition of active learning blog carnival using our carnival submission form before May 1st.