Class
Session |
Topic
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Readings/Web Pages |
#1
|
Introduction to Learning
and Teaching
Review Web Resources
|
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#2
-#3
|
Learning and Teaching In
Education
Complete Online Student
Contact Form (#2)
|
Myers, Ch. #7
Explore Web Site: Testing Our Schools (PBS)
|
#4-#5
|
Memory
Sign on to
Google Groups and
Post Introduction (#4)
|
Myers, Ch. #8
Explore Web Site: Don't Forget (PBS)
Click on "Watch Online"
(Link on top right) - Watch Video Segments - Why Memories Last and When
Memory Lies
|
#6-#7
|
Cognitive
Development
Written Assignment #1 due
(#7)
|
Meyers, Ch. #4
Explore the Web Site: Thinking Skills (PBS)
|
#8
|
Review and Midterm
|
|
#9-10 |
Thinking, Language and
Intelligience
|
Myers, Ch. #9
Explore Web Site: MSN Encarta, Intelligience
Explore Web Site: BBC hot Topics, Intelligence
Available from PROQUEST in the MCNY Library:
Gottfredson, L.S. (2004).
Schools and the g factor. The Wilson Quarterly, 28(3), 35-46.
|
#11-#12
|
Multiple Intelligence
|
Explore Web Site: Tapping
into Multiple Intelligences (PBS)
Available from PROQUEST in the MCNY Library;
Shepard, J.S. (2004)
Multiple
ways of knowing: Fostering resiliency rhrough providing opportunities
for participating in learning. Reclaiming Children and Youth, 12(4),
210-217.
Fasko, Jr., D. (2001). An analysis of multiple
intelligences
theory and its use with the gifted and talented, Roeper Review, 23(3),
126-131.
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#13-#14
|
Special Topics
|
Available from Wilson Web
in the MCNY Library:
Eisner, E. W. (2004)
Multiple intelligences: Its tensions and possibilities. Teachers
College Record, 106(1), 31-9 .
Explore Web Site: Misunderstood Minds (PBS)
Be sure to Experience
Firsthand the simulations of learning differences on each of the topic
pages.
Explore the Web Site: Closing the Achievement Gap (PBS)
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#15
|
Review and Final Exam
|
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