This book provides new insights about learning by synthesising existing and emerging findings from cognitive and brain … science and exploring how this new information might impact teaching, parenting, and educational policy making. It shows what …

intensive use of memorisation than girls when learning mathematics. Memorisation as a learning strategy may work with easy …

students need to acquire, the processes that need to be performed, and the contexts in which knowledge and skills are applied …

becoming more knowledge-based and organised as never before around learning and human skills. Today, these factors are central …In OECD countries, the number of cities and regions which put learning, education, research and innovation at the heart …. The growing interest in learning cities and regions reflects the fundamental shifts which are taking place. Cities are …

Are there computers in the classroom? Does it matter? Students, Computers and Learning: Making the Connection examines … how students’ access to and use of information and communication technology (ICT) devices has evolved in recent years, and … explores how education systems and schools are integrating ICT into students’ learning experiences. Based on results from PISA …

-quality learning and teaching and equip young people for the knowledge society. But how are the benefits of this educational investment … traditional things in different ways. Schools have to learn to change and to change to new ways of learning. There is an urgent … schools, if the dramatic educational potential of ICT is to be delivered and realised. Such a demanding "learning to change …