"Learning is not so much an additive
process, with new learning simply piling up on
top of existing knowledge, as it is an active,
dynamic process in which the connections are
constantly changing and the structure
reformatted."
K. Patricia Cross
It's not what is poured into a student that
counts, but what is planted.
Linda Conway
The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate
"aparently ordinary" people to unusual
effort. The tough proplem is not in identifying
winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary
people.
K. Patricia Cross
Designed for educational use, Alice gives kids an easy-to-use 3D world environment and introduces them to object-oriented programming. I worked with a secondary IT / programming course that used these tools, and it works great.
"An added benefit to using WordPress and MathType is that if you already have equations in Word or PowerPoint, it's a simple matter to get them into the blog without retyping them or taking a screen shot. It works the other way too -- you can drag an equation directly from WordPress into MathType and use it anywhere."