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Behaviorism

This web site provides an introduction to behaviorism and also has a tutorial complete with quiz questions to help you understand behaviorism.
http://psych.athabascau.ca/html/Behaviorism/

This PBS website gives brief biographies of B.F. Skinner and of John Watson
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/bhskin.html

Cognitivism

Inspiration software is an excellent resource for creating mind maps and concept maps. This website show examples of mind maps and offers a free 30 day trial of the program.
http://www.inspiration.com/index.cfm

The principles of Gestalt psychology by Kurt Koffka (1935)
http://www.enabling.org/ia/gestalt/gerhards/koffka.html

This is the Sonoma State University Gestalt site. It has valuable information and links to additional resources about Gestalt psychology.
http://www.sonoma.edu/users/d/daniels/Gestalt.html

This is the web site of the College of Education at the University of Missouri. This site offers good information about the Information Processing Model.
http://www.coe.missouri.edu/~t377/IPTheorists.html

This web site for kids offers great ideas for memory strategies to help them learn and ways for them to improve their memory.
http://www.premiumhealth.com/memory/

This web site, Mind Tool, offers tool and strategies for memory.
http://www.demon.co.uk/mindtool/memory.html

Website of Muskingun College. This is a huge database of learning strategies. It is a great resource for teachers
http://www.svcn.mb.ca/skills/as01/#Top

Constructivism

SEDL: Southwest Educational Development Laboratory Information about constructing knowledge in the classroom.
http://www.sedl.org/scimath/compass/v01n03/1.html

This is a website with activities for children based on the principles of Papert.
http://www.mamamedia.com/

Project zero web site of an education research group at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
http://pzweb.harvard.edu/

This site explains the web quest model for instruction
http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/necc98.htm

Jean Piajet biography and theory
http://www.ship.edu/%7Ecgboeree/piaget.html

This web site describes the link between the Constructivism learning theory and the technology
http://www.edb.utexas.edu/mmresearch/Students97/Rutledge/html/constructivism.html

Example of Webquest
http://webquest.sdsu.edu/webquest.html

The Jean Piaget Society
http://www.piaget.org/

The Center for Dewey studies
http://www.siu.edu/~deweyctr/

Kurt Lewin Institute
http://www.psy.vu.nl/kli/#Kurt%20lewin

The school and Society - four important lectures by John Dewey.
http://paradigm.soci.brocku.ca/~lward/Dewey/DEWEY_11.HTML

General Resources

This is a web site with great information about the history of instructional design broken up by decades.
http://www.coe.uh.edu/courses/cuin6373/idhistory/

This website provides a good, brief overview of the various learning theories.
http://funderstanding.com/about_learning.cfm

TIP is a tool intended to make learning and instructional theory more accessible to educators. The database contains brief summaries of 50 major theories of learning and instruction. These theories can also be accessed by learning domains and concepts.
http://tip.psychology.org/

What is 4MAT?
http://www.aboutlearning.com/aboutlearning/whatis4mat.html

Resources in teaching multiple intelligences
http://www.harding.edu/~cbr/midemo/mifirst.html

Funbrain: Create online quizzes and let students explore with games and activities
http://www.funbrain.com


Filamentality Create hotlists for students to use when researching a topic. You can also create webquests and treasure hunts for stuedents to use on the web.
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/

2learn This website has a wide variety of resources from software tutorials, articles, learning strategies and it allows teachers to create their own homepages for the web.
http://www.2learn.ca

Quia: This site allows teachers to create online activities such as flash cards, quizzes, games and more to help students review and learn. It also allows teachers to create a Quia home page where they can log on to teacher activities.
http://quia.com

Rubistar: This website allows teachers to create rubrics for projects. Many categories for rubrics are already given but they can be edited and changed as needed.
http://rubistar.4teachers.org/

4teachers This website has tools for teachers to use to create many different web based projects and activity. It is also a good source of information
http://www.4teachers.org/

Discovery School: Go here for lesson plans, puzzle making software, clip art, ideas and more!
http://school.discovery.com/teachers/

My School Online: Another resource for teachers to make quizzes or web pages.
http://www.myschoolonline.com/golocal/

Scholastic Home Page Builder This is a resource for teachers to build homepages. It has some examples of how this tool is used.
http://teacher.scholastic.com/homepagebuilder/index.htm

 

 

 
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