Deirdre Bonnycastle's Blog – November 2007 Archive (2)

The first edition of the Active Learning Blog Carnival is up at http://activelearningcarnival.blogspot.com/. If you would like to submit articles in the future, please see http://blogcarnival.com/bc/cprof_2804.html.

This monthly blog carnival is an aggregator of articles about and examples of active learning that have been recently published.

In my pursuit of active learning examples I discovered four very innovative programs from Roger Shank that I wanted to share with you:

1. Scientific Reasoning Curriculum

The Scientific Reasoning Curriculum, the first in the VISTA four-year program, lays the groundwork for scientific thinking by presenting students with a series of challenges that require students to address problems with a systematic, scientific approach. In each project,…