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...constructivist learning'' promoted at the school: students must actively dig up information, then construct their own understanding from raw, observable facts. What the technology does is extend experience so that many more observations are possible. ``It shifts education from adults giving answers to students seeking answers,'' says headmaster Gardner Dunnan. The underlying premise: we all understand and remember what we have discovered for ourselves far better than what we have merely been told. Still, the guiding hand of the teacher is a vital element in the process. ``You can't just give kids powerful computers and powerful information...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEARNING REVOLUTION | 3/1/1995 | See Source »

...identified with positions within the larger community, that is a kind of personal development that wasn't possible in the old-fashioned school.'' How relevant are Dalton's experiments to all those old-fashioned schools across the country with strained budgets and less privileged kids? Very relevant, insists headmaster Dunnan. Sure, it takes serious money and expertise to create something like Archaeotype, he concedes. (Dalton received $3.7 million from real estate mogul Robert Tishman to develop technology.) ``But once something is developed, it need not be very expensive.'' To prove that point, Dalton has begun to offer its learning technology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEARNING REVOLUTION | 3/1/1995 | See Source »

...chapter of the Legal Services Corporation, has felt the full effect of the Reagan cuts. Funded by Congress through LSC, by United Way and by local law firms, GBLS provides free legal assistance in cases that involve domestic relations, consumer law, landlord/tenant disputes, and government benefits. According to Sally Dunnan, director of personal, GBLS's budget has been slashed by 25 percent. As a result, it has had to reduce its staff by nearly one half...

Author: By Christine A. Mesch, | Title: Legal-Ease? | 3/17/1984 | See Source »

Some conferees were not impressed. "We have two monsters now: College Entrance Examinations and Merit Scholarship tests," protested St. Paul School Superintendent Donald Dunnan. "They are keeping the young from developing anything except intellectual conformity." The U.S., insisted former Sarah Lawrence President Harold Taylor, should "abolish all this testing and concentrate on teaching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Policy: Prelude to a New Push | 7/30/1965 | See Source »

HARVARD NEW HAMPSHIRE Nazro, l.e. r.e., Knox Hardy, l.t. r.t., Bacheller Esterly, l.g. r.g., Haynes Hallowell, c. c., Dunnan Gundlach, r.g. l.g., Morin Bancroft, r.t. l.t., Learmonth Hageman, r.e. l.e., Andrews Wells, q. q., Graffam Crickard, l.h.b. r.h.b., Jacques Nevin, r.h.b. l.h.b., Dane Dean, f.b. f.b., Haphey...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD FAVORED TO SMASH WILDCAT PASSING ATTACKS | 10/8/1932 | See Source »

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