Category Archives: Lifelong learning

New Center for Research on Digital Media and Learning

There’s little doubt that the Internet will transform schooling (read choices) and how students learn, play, socialize, and participate in civic life. A newly-created Digital Media and Learning Research Hub at the University of California-Irvine will explore the impact of digital media on learning and its potential for transforming education.  The Center is funded by a $2.97 million grant from [...]

Reform Must be Based on How Learning Occurs

When Traditional Reading Methods Don

What do Kids Learn from Virtual Worlds?

Shift Happens

Institute for Humane Education

Learning in the Community

Experiential Learning

Free Choice Learning

Adults and children are spending more and more of their time learning, but not just in classrooms or on the job

Lifelong Learning

There has been a growing movement to reinvent how people learn and how young people are introduced into society. Homeschooling, charter schools, cyberschools, unschooling, life-long learning, Waldorf schools, and Sudbury schools are just a few of the elements of this movement. Life-long learning has been promoted by management guru Peter Drucker in “Post Capitalist Society” [...]