Bob Zenhausern

Male

New York

United States

Profile Information:

School / Work Affiliation
Enabling Support Foundation
Website
http://www.enabling.org
About Me
Retired professor of research in neuropsychology, now chief bottle washer at the Enabling Support Foundation a non-profit corporation with a mission to serve persons with disabilities and 21st century education

Projects

1) Integrating education into the 21st Centrury technology and decreasing our emphasis on 19th Century skills. A simple example is to use word processors and spreadsheets from PreK on. I do not want to totally give up on paper and pencil and computation, but I do want to downplay them and not make them the basis of education in the 21st century.

2) I think a spreadsheet is a wonderful tool to teach the scientific method, data analysis, and report writing.

3) Take a look at www.educationalsynthesis.org for a site that provides unique material and links to other important education sites.

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  • NELSON PINHEIRO COELHO DE SOUZA

    He is an Australian Psychologist. Today he is considered the tenth most productive author on educational psychology. The basic idea (actually the initial idea) behind Cognitive Load Theory is that because working memory (used to be called short term memory) is limited (in capacity and duration) then if a student has to peform a complex task, this may overload his working memory and the learning process becomes inefficient. That is not the whole story but, that is how it got started. Nowdays the US Department of Education posts on a website called "doing what works" (very pragmatic right ?) some recommendations which are based on Cognitive Load Theory. They recommend for homework, teachers to interleave worked exemples with problems to be solved.

    Jul 9, 2010

  • Janet Barnstable

    Bob, Global Virtual Classroom would love to have teachers from the schools you support joining into the programs. We really want to promote global understanding amongst teachers and their students. Let me know if you have any questions.

    Jul 17, 2010

  • H.M.Wijewardana

    Hi, I'm a teacher from Sri Lanka. I teach computer science in this school and help my students to improve their English using Internet. I'm  doing a project as an English club for it. We use "Skype as a learning tool in English club. our common skype ID is "rambuka2"

    Little students are using skype 

      Additionally, I'm doing a media club using television media. 

    News reading in our school channel

    Thanks 

    Jan 10, 2012