Peter Senge’s vision of a learning organization as a group of people who are continually enhancing their capabilities to create what they want to create has been deeply influential. We discuss the five disciplines he sees as central to learning organizations and some issues and questions concerning the theory and practice of learning organizations. 

It is important that we instruct students not only to do the subject matter assignments, but also processes that allow them to be more efficient. This site offers guides designed for student use.

The new Apple Learning Interchange (ALI) is a set of free resources for educators that provides a single access point to find media and ideas for classroom activities produced by their peers, by Apple, and by Apple content affiliates like NASA, The Smithsonian, and the George Lucas Educational Foundation. Educators can connect with each other through simple searching, messaging, iChat and collaborative publication tools, and they can submit projects as simple as classroom snapshots or as complex as multi-page abstracts for assessment, enhancement, and peer review.

College professor tries to ease friction of learning physics

Source: ELIZABETH DAVIES, Rockford Register Star

FREEPORT — The corkboard outside Eric Peterson’s office is littered with clipped-out cartoons, most with a science or weather-related punch line.

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Make lessons 'fit the learner'

Source: BBC:Tuesday, 29 November 2005, 16:14 GMT

The education system "should be reversed to conform to the learner, rather than the learner to the system", says a think-tank report.

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Yahoo backs digital library plan

Spurce: BBC,Monday, 3 October 2005, 10:58 GMT 11:58 UK
Yahoo is taking on Google with its own digital archive of books, audio and video.

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Diary of a laptop school pupil

Source: BBC, Monday, 3 October 2005, 07:33 GMT 08:33 UK
Sarah Murrin is a student at Empire High School in Arizona that is swapping school books for Apple laptops. Here she describes a typical day in her school life.

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US school swaps books for bytes

Source: BBC, Monday, 3 October 2005, 07:32 GMT 08:32 UK
A school in Arizona, US, has thrown out its paper-based text books and is relying solely on laptops and digital material to teach its pupils.

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Innovative teacher at heart

Source:The star online: by TAN SHIOW CHIN

"Necessity is the mother of invention.” That quote from Plato’s Republic exemplifies Physics teacher Debbie Yeong’s introduction to teaching.

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