Hot Topics & Workshops
Hot Topic Workshop: Diversity as a Research Construct: Learning, Culture, Language and Socioeconomic Status
Bringing issues of culture, race, diversity, and language into the mainstream of learning science research is a fundamental driving theme in LIFE’s mission and organization. These issues were at the forefront of the LIFE Center’s second Hot Topics workshop…
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Kuhl and Meltzoff in New York Times article on robots and teaching
Patricia Kuhl on Charlie Rose Brain Series
Research Seminar Report: The impacts of media multitasking on children’s learning and development
New article in Science Magazine: Foundations for a New Science of Learning
A new article in Science Magazine (July 17, 2009), entitled “Foundations for a New Science of Learning,” reports that a convergence of discoveries in psychology, neuroscience, and machine learning has resulted in principles of human…
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LIFE Center’s ECO: Research and Education Partnerships
May 10, 2010A summary from LIFE Partner and LIFE ECO Lead Partner: SRI International
If we want to find ways to achieve greater utilization of…research, merely thinking about utilization cannot take us very far (Beyer & Trice, 1982)
SRI’s…
Neural signatures of phonetic learning in adulthood: A magnetoencephalography study
August 27, 2009Authors: Yang Zhang, Patricia K. Kuhl, Toshiaki Imada, Paul Iverson, John Pruitt, Erica B. Stevens, Masaki Kawakatsu, Yoh’ichi Tohkura, Iku Nemoto
Institutions: University of Minnesota, University of Washington, Tokyo Denki University, University College London, Microsoft Corporation, National Institute…
Multi-User Virtual Environments (MUVEs) and Experiential Learning: Some Examples
June 23, 2009LIFE researchers Baba Kofi Weusijana, Vanessa Svihla, Drue Gawel, and John Bransford have published an online journal article on how they have researched and developed a blended classroom learning experience using the Second Life Multi-User…
CONSENSUS REPORT: Learning In and Out of School in Diverse Environments
May 11, 2007
In 2004, the LIFE Center and the Center for Multicultural Education at the University of Washington established the LIFE Diversity Panel. The Panel’s goal was to summarize important principles that educational practitioners, policy makers, and researchers…
