Ethics and creativity promote 'good work' Dewi Susanti and Kayee Man, Contributors, Jakarta Recently, when opening her e-mail account, Dewi's attention was caught by news titled "The Memory Pill" with this short description: "If you have experienced a painful or traumatic event, would you want a pill which could lessen the bad memories of what happened? That option might soon…
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Multiple Intelligences Instructional Design Framework for Virtual Classes. http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/news.nv?storyid=single6933 Two Irish-based organisations have been chosen to lead projects from a total award list of 26 projects under Minerva, the EU’s €7.5m distance education and e-learning programme. Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT) will lead a project entitled ‘Multiple intelligences instructional design framework for virtual classes’. Partners in Turkey, the UK, Cyprus, France as…
LAKEWOOD RANCH - Standing in front of the room and lecturing to students just may not cut it anymore - at least that's what Howard Gardner has been lecturing about throughout the world for more than 20 years. Gardner, a professor at Harvard University, wrote about his "Theory of Multiple Intelligence" in 1983, and has since written 20 books related…
1. Howard Gardner's work around multiple intelligences has had a profound impact on thinking and practice in education - especially in the United States. Here we explore the theory of multiple intelligences; why it has found a ready audience amongst educationalists; and some of the issues around its conceptualization and realization. http://www.infed.org/thinkers/gardner.htm 2. New Horizons for Learning In 1983, Howard…
Kurt Fischer of Harvard University is working to improve education through applying knowledge gained through biology. Kurt Fischer and his colleagues looked at the revolution in brain scanning, genetics, and other biological technologies and decided that most teachers and students weren
Howard E. Gardner '65 submitted this op-ed on January 29, 2007. He appended Faust's name and the final paragraph after today's news reporting. With the nomination of Drew Gilpin Faust as the 28th president of Harvard University, the lengthy, largely secretive process has come to at an end. Whatever one thought of the Summers era and its ending, those who…
Harvard to name first female president The appointment of a new president will be announced on Sunday after a special meeting of the university's board of overseers, the alumni governing body that must approve the selection, according to a university official with knowledge of the selection process. Ms Faust, a historian who specialises in the civil war and the US…