President's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology. Introducing the scope and sequence of the Journal of Interactive Learning Research. This study investigated whether or not learning style would change after a year of schooling in a technology-rich educational environment dedicated to a constructivist approach to learning. The subjects were given Dunn and Dunn's Learning Style Inventory and a questionnaire on Gardner's Seven Forms of Intelligence before and after the school year. This study could not conclude that learning styles change after one year, however, there are suggestions that learning styles are affected by factors within the environment, such as exposure to technology.
Results suggest that the use of computers affected the way the content was explored and presented.
This paper describes an integration of three educational innovations which comprise the Schools for Thought project. Blueprint for Success is a video from the Adventures of Jasper Woodbury which provides a collaborative design task requiring students to work through geometric concepts in designing a playground. The Fostering Communities of Learners project provides powerful participant structures for students to collaborate, as well as empowering strategies for making sense of texts. Each of these innovations creates situations which require students to communicate and cooperate in order to complete the activities. While each of the innovations support collaboration, there is no guarantee that students will engage in the collaborative processes necessary for knowledge building.