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Schoolyard-Enhanced Learning shows how the school grounds--regardless of whether your school is in an urban, suburban, or rural setting--can become an enriching extension of the classroom. In this comprehensive handbook, Herb Broda blends theory and practice, providing readers with practical suggestions and teacher-tested activities for using the most powerful audio-visual tool available--the outdoors.

Emphasizing the practical, this innovative book offers teachers step-by-step guidance to help ensure success when they take a class outside. It provides:

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Learning is among the most basic of human activities. The study of learning, and research into learning is becoming a central part of educational studies. This is a comprehensive introduction to contemporary theories and modern practices of learning. Updated and expanded, this second edition should be of interest to teachers, facilitators, human resource developers and students of education. The contents cover: lifelong learning; the social background to learning; cognitivist theory; types of learning; learning using ICT; and philosophical reflections on learning.

Based on real schools and the struggles of real library media specialists and teachers, you'll find theory, principles, research and concrete examples all presented to illustrate how the Library Power initiative can move your school towards an inquiry-based approach to teaching, learning and curriculum renewal. Inquiry-based learning is the way we learn in "real life." Get this book and start implementing it in your school today

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Learn how to implement inquiry-based learning into your school from three...

This book utilizes a web-based learning model as the basis for professional development and technology training. The model is built around 6 systematic steps: Guided Tours, Scavenger Hunts, Web Page Development, Internet Discoveries, CyberInquiries and WebQuests. Professional development is provided in the context of instructional activities that incorporate computers and web-based instructional resources to create authentic and challenging classroom instruction.

Technology-enhanced learning is a timely topic, the importance of which is recognized by educational researchers, practitioners, software designers, and policy makers. This volume presents and discusses current trends and issues in technology-enhanced learning from a European research and development perspective. This multifaceted and multidisciplinary topic is considered from four different viewpoints, each of which constitutes a separate section in the book. The sections include general as well as domain-specific principles of learning that have been found to play a significant role in...