General Session - Technology and Inquiry: Discussion Based Learning (Wed)

Full Session: General Session

Short Description

Digital resources can support teaching and learning that focuses on all students leaving K-12 education knowing how to learn, helping to shift the paradigm from practices that haven’t worked for decades.

Philip Yenawine is cofounder of Visual Understanding in Education, a nonprofit research organitrzation that trains teachers to use Visual Thinking Strategies. Philip Yenawine has been engaged in museum education for forty years, ten years of which were spent as Director of Education at The Museum of Modern Art in New York, founding director of the Aspen Art Museum, Philip Yenawine has been engaged in museum education for forty years, ten years of which were spent as Director of Education at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. He is currently the co-founding director (with cognitive psychologist Abigail Housen) of Visual Understanding in Education, a nonprofit educational research organization that develops and studies programs that train teachers to use art to teach thinking and communication skills.

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• AECT