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Please respond: Would you like to join a discussion of the book "How People Learn"?

Submitted by andrewstillman on Fri, 04/06/2007 - 1:48pm.

I heard back from several of you and folks seemed amenable to trying on How People Learn, by the National Research Council. (published by the National Academies Press)

I had to read parts of this book in a teacher preparation course a few years ago, and I remember it being a great survey of the findings of cognitive science and education research.

The whole text can be downloaded for $20 as a PDF, or for $29.50 you can have the paperback and the PDF.

You can also read the whole thing directly on the website, but the page viewer isn't so hot.

Can others who plan to join the discussion on this book please respond below?

Would like to participate in the book discussions

Submitted by rgbussell on Tue, 07/03/2007 - 7:16am.

Hi,

I would be happy to participate in the book discussion of "How People Learn."

When do we start? (Or is it too late?).

If it's too late,what's the next book you have lined up?

bob

It's not too late

Submitted by admin on Tue, 07/03/2007 - 1:04pm.

Bob,

Thanks for your interest...this book group suffered the fate of being one of too many things on my plate at the time I launched it... I'd love to resume.

I was thinking our project could be to generate a kind of "cliff's notes" version of the report to aid people in their planning...

How does this sound to you?

Andrew

Cliff notes version of book: "How People Learn"

Submitted by rgbussell on Tue, 07/03/2007 - 3:13pm.

It sounds like a decent project. In the right form, somebody else might benefit from it as well. I'll pop off and read through a bit of it, then see if I can distill it down a little. I'm not too familiar with the features of open planner. I suggest we create a project category called "learning reasearch" or something like that and put the summary materials there.

bob

Categorizing, and where to put the new content

Submitted by andrewstillman on Tue, 07/10/2007 - 9:47pm.

Bob,

And others who'd like to join:

The site operates with the team project pages as the central workspace for content, with the forum as a place to have planning discussion and drum up interest. If you look at the project pages tab in this team, you'll see where I got started putting up "stubs" for the different sections of the book. Adding another page to the existing structure, or editing a page in the structure is pretty straightforward.

If you're looking for a tag to associate with our new pages, how about "education research"?

I plan to join the discussion

Submitted by Jennifer Stillman on Fri, 04/06/2007 - 8:03pm.

I think maybe we tried to discuss too many aspects of The Skills Commission Report, and it was a bit overwhelming. I'd like to recommend a more focused discussion of this book. Once I get my hands on it, I'll make a more specific recommendation. Looking forward to it!