IAE Newsletter

From IAE-Pedia

The free IAE Newsletter is specifically oriented toward educators, parents, and others who are seriously interested in improving the world’s education systems.

Subscribing to the No-cost IAE Newsletter

The twice-a-month IAE Newsletter is published electronically. To subscribe (at no cost):

1. Go to or click the following link: http://i-a-e.org/iae-newsletter.html
2. Follow the instructions.

Note: Once you receive a newsletter, you will be able to manage your subscription through a link that appears at the bottom of each newsletter issue. Use the link to change your email address or unsubscribe.

Back Issues

All back issues are available free. Here is a list of back issues with very short descriptions of content.

• IAE Newsletter - Issue 90, May, 2012. Effective Questioning Strategies That Build Thinking and Learning: A Critical Need for 21st Century Education.

• IAE Newsletter - Issue 89, May, 2012. Creating an Appropriate 21st Century Education: Thinking, Fast and Slow.

• IAE Newsletter - Issue 88, April, 2012. Creating an Appropriate 21st Century Education: Surprise: It Makes Us Who We Are.

• IAE Newsletter - Issue 87, April, 2012. Creating an Appropriate 21st Century Education: How Educational Neuroscience Will Contribute to 21st Century Education.

• IAE Newsletter - Issue 86, March, 2012. Creating an Appropriate 21st Century Education: The Issues of Consciousness and Free Will - Part 2.

• IAE Newsletter - Issue 85, March, 2012. Creating an Appropriate 21st Century Education: The Issues of Consciousness and Free Will - Part 1.

• IAE Newsletter - Issue 84, February, 2012. Creating an Appropriate 21st Century Education: Using Computers to Translate Educational Theory into Practice.

• IAE Newsletter - Issue 83, February, 2012. Creating an Appropriate 21st Century Education: The Top Ten Reasons Why Humor Is FUNdamental To Education.

• IAE Newsletter - Issue 82, January, 2012. Creating an Appropriate 21st Century Education: Taking Cognitive Neuroscience Beyond Education.

• IAE Newsletter - Issue 81, January, 2012. Creating an Appropriate 21st Century Education: The Positive Roles That the Arts, Arts Education, and Creative Obsession Will Play.

• IAE Newsletter - Issue 80, December, 2011. Creating an Appropriate 21st Century Education: Movement as Primary in Learning Processes.

• IAE Newsletter - Issue 79, December, 2011. Creating an Appropriate 21st Century Education: Neurodiversity: More than Just a Good Notion.

• IAE Newsletter - Issue 78, November, 2011. Creating an Appropriate 21st Century Education: Have Schools Become Historical Museums?

• IAE Newsletter - Issue 77, November, 2011. The Future of Education with the Brain in Mind: Educating Tomorrow’s Students.

• IAE Newsletter - Issue 76, October, 2011. Creating an Appropriate 21st Century Education Part 2: Information and Communication Technology.

• IAE Newsletter - Issue 75, October 15, 2011. Creating an Appropriate 21st Century Education Part 1: The Roles of Cognitive Neuroscience and Computer Technology.

• IAE Newsletter - Issue 74, September 31, 2011. Tutoring in Informal and Formal Education Part 2: Tutoring in Math Education.

• IAE Newsletter - Issue 73, September 15, 2011. Tutoring in Informal and Formal Education Part 1: Overview of Tutoring.

• IAE Newsletter - Issue 72, August, 2011 Academic Professional Collaboration.

• IAE Newsletter - Issue 71, August, 2011 Performing Well And Choking Badly Under Pressure.

• IAE Newsletter - Issue 70, July, 2011 How to Attend a Conference.

• IAE Newsletter - Issue 69, July, 2011 The Science of Evil.

• IAE Newsletter - Issue 68, June, 2011 Beyond Consciousness.

• IAE Newsletter - Issue 67, June, 2011 Stress and Education Part 4: Technology-based Stressors in Math Education.

• IAE Newsletter - Issue 66, May, 2011.Stress and Education Part 3: Stressors in Math Education

• IAE Newsletter - Issue 65, May, 2011. Stress and Education Part 2: Education-related Stressors.

• IAE Newsletter - Issue 64, April, 2011. Stress and Education Part 1: Introduction and Overview.

• IAE Newsletter - Issue 63, April, 2011. A Culturally Appropriate Perspective of Disabilities and Capabilities.

• IAE Newsletter - Issue 62, March, 2011. Consciousness.

• IAE Newsletter - Issue 61, March, 2011. Emotion and Feelings.

• IAE Newsletter - Issue 60. February, 2011. Assessing Education in an Increasingly Complex, Information-Overloaded World.

• IAE Newsletter - Issue 59, February, 2011. Assessing Student Achievement In Difficult To Assess Curricular Areas: Problem Solving.

• IAE Newsletter - Issue 58 January, 2011. Assessing Student Achievement in Difficult to Assess Curricular Areas: The Arts.

• IAE Newsletter - Issue 57, January, 2011. Assessing Student Achievement in Difficult to Assess Curricular Areas: Social Knowledge and Skills.

• IAE Newsletter - Issue # 56 December 2010. Science is Repeatable and Accurate Measurements.

• IAE Newsletter - Issue # 55 December 2010. Our Analog Human Brain in an Increasingly Digital World.

• IAE Newsletter - Issue # 54 November 2010. Assessing Our Schooling System.

• IAE Newsletter - Issue # 53 November 2010. The Biological Relevance of Music.

• IAE Newsletter - Issue # 52 October 2010. Mind, Brain, and Education.

• IAE Newsletter - Issue # 51 October 2010. Education and Health Care Part 7: Final Installment–Quality of Life.

• IAE Newsletter - Issue # 50 September 2010. Education and Health Care Part 6: Assessment and Evaluation.

• IAE Newsletter - Issue # 49 September 2010. Education and Health Care Part 5: Theory into Practice.

• IAE Newsletter - Issue # 48 August 2010. Education and Health Care Part 4: The Human Element.

• IAE Newsletter - Issue # 47 August 2010. Education and Health Care Part 3: Research and Development.

• IAE Newsletter - Issue # 46 July 2010. Education and Health Care Part 2: Proactive and Reactive Approaches.

• IAE Newsletter - Issue # 45 July 2010. Education and Health Care Part 1: Comparing Apples and Oranges.

• IAE Newsletter - Issue # 44 June 2010. Two stimulating books for summer reading.

• IAE Newsletter - Issue # 43 June 2010. The quality of our educational system.

• IAE Newsletter - Issue # 42 May 2010. Tutor, Tool, Tutee, Toy.

• IAE Newsletter - Issue # 41 May 2010. Working Memory—A Bottleneck in Your Brain.

• IAE Newsletter - Issue # 40 April 2010. Real world and video game realities.

• IAE Newsletter - Issue # 39 April 2010. Using computers as an aid to retrieving and processing trustworthy and untrustworthy information.

• IAE Newsletter - Issue # 38 March 2010. Using Your Brain to Retrieve and Process Trustworthy and Untrustworthy Information.

• IAE Newsletter - Issue # 37 March 2010. The Role of Fiction in Cognitive Development and Maintenance.

• IAE Newsletter - Issue # 36 February 2010. The Web: Vannevar Bush and Tim Berners-Lee.

• IAE Newsletter - Issue 35 February 2010. Issues 35 and 36 are a 2-part discussion of capabilities and limitations of human memory and computer memory.

• IAE Newsletter - Issue 34 January 2010. This issue of the newsletter explores the topic of creativity by artificially intelligent computer systems. Keep in mind the idea that human intelligence and creativity may well be quite a bit different than computer intelligence and creativity—but both are of value to us.

• IAE Newsletter - Issue 33 January 2010. This issue of the Information Age Newsletter explores biological creativity.

• IAE Newsletter - Issue 32, December 2009. This issue focuses on the capabilities and limitations of working memory, a central brain system.

• IAE Newsletter - Issue 31, December 2009. Changes in nature, nurture, and tools that help us get better at representing and solving cognitively challenging problems.

• IAE Newsletter - Issue 30, November 2009. Dealing with information overload by use of newsletters that give very brief summaries of articles of potential interest to you.

• IAE Newsletter - Issue 29, November 2009. Improving Education: A Political Agenda.

• IAE Newsletter - Issue 28, October 2009. Our educational system can be improved by placing greater emphasis on preparing students for the future.

• IAE Newsletter - Issue 27, October 2009. A new proposed set of national standards in Language Arts and Math.

• IAE Newsletter - Issue 26, September 2009. Key ideas from the 2008 book: Christensen, Horn, and Johnson "Disrupting class: How disruptive innovation will change the way the world learns." The book explores how Distance Education is changing our schools.

• IAE Newsletter - Issue 25, September 2009. Distance education and distance learning: a vision of the future of education.

• IAE Newsletter - Issue 24, August 2009. Student and adult desires for instant gratification and extrinsic motivation are significant roadblocks to improving education.

• IAE Newsletter - Issue 23, August 2009. Being "Proficient" with 50 Percent Correct Answers. Math competence and math maturity.

• IAE Newsletter - Issue 22, July 2009. Some major flaws with detailed standards, rules, regulations, and so on.

• IAE Newsletter - Issue 21, July 2009. Education for now and the future.

• IAE Newsletter - Issue 20, June 2009. Cognitive development and IQ.

• Issue 19, June 2009. Joseph Renzulli, a world-class leader in TAG education.

• IAE Newsletter - Issue 18, May 2009. Information and Communication Technology can be and should be a significant "player" in Talented and Gifted education.

• IAE Newsletter - Issue 17, May 2009. Glinda's Great Book of Records (from L. Frank Baum's "Oz" series of book), and Vannevar Bush's "Memex" were visionary predecessors of the Web.

• IAE Newsletter - Issue 16, April 2009. Learning on your own. "They know enough who know how to learn."

• IAE Newsletter - Issue 15, April 2009. Discussion about US Education Secretary of Education Arne Duncan recent statement: “I fundamentally believe that our school day is too short, our school week is too short, and our school year is too short.”

• IAE Newsletter - Issue 14, March 2009. Lifelong learning, learning for one's possible futures, and helping student learn for their possible futures.

• IAE Newsletter - Issue 13, March, 2009. Joe the Plumber (the "common man") and the idea of Computational Thinking literacy for all. People are gaining a great deal of Computational Thinking literacy through our informal "learn by doing" educational system.

• IAE Newsletter - Issue 12, February, 2009. Computer literacy, computational thinking, and David Perkin's idea of "person-plus."

• IAE Newsletter - Issue 11, February, 2009. Gaining expertise in reading, writing, arithmetic and in other areas.

• IAE Newsletter - Issue 10, January, 2009. Douglas Engelbart, a computer in education pioneer and inventor of the mouse.

• IAE Newsletter - Issue 9, January, 2009. Alan Kay, a computer in education pioneer.

• IAE Newsletter - Issue 8, December, 2008. Levels of depth of ICT educational uses.

• IAE Newsletter - Issue 7, December, 2008. Crowdsourcing and memes.

• IAE Newsletter - Issue 6, November, 2008. Criticisms of our educational system. Ways to improve education.

• IAE Newsletter - Issue 5, November, 2008. Past and current criticisms of our educational system. Authentic content and assessment.

• IAE Newsletter - Issue 4, October 2008. Information, the Information Age, and the growing totality of information.

• IAE Newsletter - Issue 3, October 2008. Past, present, and future uses of computers in education.

• IAE Newsletter - Issue 2, September 2008. The future. Good lesson plans. Compelling ICT educational applications.

• IAE Newsletter - Issue 1, August 2008. What is the Information Age? Two brains are better one. Becoming more responsible for your own education.