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Information Age Education - Free ResourcesURL: http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~moursund/dave/ and http://iae-pedia.org/Dave Moursund is the founder of the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) and a founding board member of the Math Learning Center headquartered in Oregon. He recently started Information Age Education (IAE), a non-profit organization that provides free materials for preservice and inservice teachers (see http://iae-pedia.org/).

IAE focuses on improving education at all levels and throughout the world. The unifying philosophies include the following:-- Every person is both a lifelong learner and a lifelong teacher -- Our educational system can be improved through empowering students and their teachers, and by helping students learn to take more responsibility for their own learning. See http://iae-pedia.org/Empowering_Learners_and_Teachers-- We have a rapidly increasing understanding of Brain Science and other theory underlying teaching and learning. Computers are a powerful aid to translating this theory into practice.

See http://iae-pedia.org/Computational_Thinking-- Communication and Information Technology is making the world "smaller" and "flatter."

See http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/display.article?id=5581 Students need an education that helps prepare them for a continuation of these trends.-- Two brains are better than one. In math, for example, people routinely make use of their own brain (a human brain) and a computer brain. We need an educational system that strongly reflects this situation and the fact that computers are still rapidly growing in capability (see http://iae-pedia.org/Two_Brains_Are_Better_Than_One).

In this article, Moursund explores some teaching and learning implications of the capabilities and limitations of both human brains and computer brains. The emphasis is on improving education by helping students learn to make effective of both types of brains.The idea of a Digital Filing Cabinet (DFC) is one of Moursund's current areas of emphasis. All teachers are familiar with the idea of having a filing cabinet that contains lesson plans, handouts for students, and so on.

Nowadays, many teachers have both a physical filing cabinet and an electronic digital filing cabinet.Moreover, many teachers of teachers help their students to develop their own DFC and provide some content materials. Each of the articles referenced above is an example of materials that a teacher of teachers might want his or her students to have in their own personal DFC. For general ideas about a DFC, see http://iae-pedia.org/Digital_Filing_Cabinet/Overview

For Moursund's current collection of Math DFC materials, see http://iae-pedia.org/Main_Page#Math

Moursund's ten most recent books are available free on the Web. Following are three examples that may interest math teachers:Introduction to Problem Solving in the Information Age: http://i-a-e.org/ebooks/cat_view/37-free-ebooks-by-dave-moursund.html

Computational Thinking and Math Maturity: Improving Math Education in K-8 Schools: http://i-a-e.org/ebooks/cat_view/37-free-ebooks-by-dave-moursund.html

Introduction to Using Games in Education: A Guide for Teachers and Parents: http://i-a-e.org/ebooks/cat_view/37-free-ebooks-by-dave-moursund.html

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