On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 21:29, Arjun Sarwal <[email protected]> wrote: > I am looking for any interesting material that can help me understand > better the fundamental process of how do children and young > adults learn ; especially with regard to interaction with external > physical environment. Examples could be learning music, learning > through science experiments etc
There is a huge amount of material in this vein. First, there is the literature and also the learning materials created by or inspired by luminaries such as * Maria Montessori, Montessori schools * Caleb Gattegno, Cuisenaire rods * Jean Piaget, scientific study of children * John Holt, How Children Learn, How Children Fail * Seymour Papert, Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas; The Children's Machine * Doug Engelbart, The Mother of All Demos; Enhancing Global Intelligence and many more on educational techniques and on child development before schooling begins. Then there is software such as * Smalltalk (Alan Kay and his team at Xerox PARC) * Logo (Seymour Papert and others, MIT Learning Lab) * Sugar (Nicholas Negroponte, Walter Bender and others at OLPC and Sugar Labs) * Dr Geo II (Hilaire Fernandes) > Could you please point me to any research papers/thesis, or > interesting real life experiments you might've come across that you > thought were particularly insightful. There are far too many to list here. If you tell us what you want to do with the information, we can give you more specific advice. But I can give you a few pointers to get started. Here are several TED Talks of interest * Sugata Mitra, Hole in the Wall Computer http://www.ted.com/search?q=sugata+mitra * Deb Roy, who recorded 90,000 hours of his son's learning to speak http://www.ted.com/talks/deb_roy_the_birth_of_a_word.html > Thanks in advance > > Regards, > Arjun > _______________________________________________ > Educators mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/educators > -- Edward Mokurai (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) Cherlin Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Replacing_Textbooks _______________________________________________ Educators mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/educators
