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Lifelong Learning

Learning isn't just something that happens at school or with a tidy curriculum organized by someone else. Learning happens all the time, and most often when we least expect it. Oops there is that lesson from life again! These articles address many different aspects of learning and education, from school reform to how people think and learn. Over time we'll add more books, articles, and our own personal experiences with learning throughout life.

Books

A Learner's Guide to the Technologies: Lifelong Learning on the Information Highway.

Websites

study24-7.com is revolutionizing the way students study on the web. It's helpful for those of us out of school, too!

The Learning Curve explores one of mankind's fundamental processes: learning. No matter what age, race, gender, or nationality, everyone learns. Learning is topic that affects us every second of every day from the moment we are born onward. Our site is divided into six main sections: How We Learn, Learning Theories, Teaching, Learning Ability, the History of Learning, and Exceptional Learning. Other features include a learning simulation, an effective learning tutorial, a memory game, quizzes, a forum, and surveys. (added 01/01/2002)

Work styles: A tool for communication and collaboration Why are some people leaders and others followers? Understand how others think, learn, and work by understanding more about yourself at this site. Take a work styles test find your predominant work style. A multiple intelligence test lets you find out the style in which you solve problems (interpersonal, logical, visual, verbal etc.) and a description of each intelligence is given. Links to other work styles and multiple intelligence sites are included.

Articles

Learning in the Key of Life. Jon Spayde. Utne Reader online. "Can you learn what you need to know to live a meaningful life -- especially when you're out of school and no one's insisting that you read this book or take that field trip? It's far too easy to stop learning anything you don't have to. We lead hectic lives, and by the end of the day just getting dinner on the table seems like an insurmountable challenge; who's got the energy to tackle Tolstoy, Fellini, or the latest music sensation from Cape Verde? Yet..."

Battery Hens or Free Range Chickens? John Abbott. Written in 1989 by the President of the 21st Century Learning Initiative, this article still provides a timely and far-reaching description of how to improve learning through meta-cognition.

Articles on Various Aspects of Education
(In the future, this may get a page of its own)

Future vision for Education. From On the Horizon, July 1999.

The Professor Fails The Test. Roger Shank. ILS website. Column #6, posted 6/18/99. "OK. Let's face it. No matter what I say about measurement, there will be those who want to measure anyway. They will want to measure for the same reason they have always wanted to measure -- not because they want to know if Johnny has learned but because they want to know if Johnny knows more than Billy. Measurement has always been about competition. Companies want to hire the best person. Schools want to accept the best students. We care about grades because we want to know who won. No matter how much this is a bad thing for education, it will be very hard to convince all those people who are so heavily bought into this model of education that this is a really bad idea. Maybe these tests can be saved, or we can devise some new ones. It is hard to imagine that we can change the system since politicians love those tests so much."

Are You Smart Enough to Keep Your Job? Fortune. January 15, 1995

Education for the Millennium. American Productivity & Quality Center (APQC) Whitepaper. C. Jackson Grayson. [Requires Adobe Acrobat]

The Schank Tank: Can an AI guru find fulfillment by pushing corporate traininware? Roger Schank decides that the best way to make a machine think is to first make it teach. David H. Freedman. Wired Magazine Issue 2.08.

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