Science for the Educated Mind

10-Sep-2004

Bruno della Chiesa,  who leads the OECD project on Learning Science and Brain Research, talks to the Learning Lab Denmark's Quarterly Online magazine on the challenge to develop a neuroscientific approach to the question: how do we learn?

A Report on the Literacy Network and Numeracy Network Deliberations

08-Sep-2004

A report on the Literacy Network and Numeracy Network Deliberations held in Brockton, MA, USA, from 29-31 January 2003.  The goals of this meeting were to  determine consensus within cognitive neuroscience as it relates to knowledge  in literacy and mathematics education research; to innovate research in both of these areas; and to think about how to make this knowledge more accessible to a global audience of educators and policymakers. 

Second Literacy and Numeracy Network Meeting

02-Apr-2004

The Second Meeting of the Literacy and Numeracy Network was  held from 1-3 March 2004, in El Escorial, Spain.

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Report of the Second Meeting of Lifelong Learning Network

26-Feb-2004

The Second Meeting of the Lifelong Learning Network was held from 13-14 January 2004 in Tokyo Japan, and hosted by RIKEN BSI in collaboration with OECD-CERI.  Findings from the network laboratories were presented and discussed in the first three sessions: "Learning in Infancy", "Learning in Childhood", and "Learning Across Life".  The final session included two special presentations.

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First Literacy Network Meeting: Audio Clips and Abstracts

25-Feb-2004

Download audio clips and abstracts  from the First Literacy Network Meeting held in Brockton, Massachucetts, USA, January 2003.

Report of the "Emotions and Learning" Planning Symposium

07-Jan-2004

A  symposium on "Emotions & Learning" was held on 3 December 2003, at the University of Ulm in Germany, to discuss the effects of emotional states on information storage and retrieval.