Archive for the ‘Kindergarten Learning’ category

Brain Savvy: a Creative Teaching and Learning Tool

August 26th, 2010
Brain Savvy: a Creative Teaching and Learning Tool

Educators with doctorate degrees and over 30 years of teaching experience created a magnetic board game template to provide teachers with creative ways to meet state and federal performance benchmarks by making learning fun.  BrainSavvy looks and plays like a game, but in reality it is an easy-to-use “teaching tool” that equips teachers to motivate even bored, indifferent students to create good study habits, often with the help of teammate » Read more: Brain Savvy: a Creative Teaching and Learning Tool

The Ways Of Wisdom: Learning To Learn And Leaving A Legacy

August 20th, 2010
The Ways Of Wisdom: Learning To Learn And Leaving A Legacy

Article 2 of a 10-Part Series

Welcome back to all of you Wise Old Owls!

In this article we take a novel look at learning to learn and the expression of knowledge learned as wisdom.

To do so, we will begin with a view of “knowledge” as being a cycle of Feelings, Thoughts and Experience, alongside a view of Wisdom being a cycle of Discernment, Awareness and Application. Further, we will allow that these two cycl » Read more: The Ways Of Wisdom: Learning To Learn And Leaving A Legacy

Learning How to Think Again

July 9th, 2010
Learning How to Think Again

A couple of months ago, I read in the newspapers about how this woman in her late fifties, with heavy make-up, colored hair and the trendiest clothes had been denied entry in one of the hippest clubs in town. She and her friends were eventually allowed in but the club denied them free complimentary drinks on “Ladies Night”. The free drinks on Ladies Night was meant to attract much younger ladies to the club which would in turn entice men to » Read more: Learning How to Think Again