Who We Are
The Active Learning Community consists of its
practitioners, teachers, therapists and parents, the learners,
and all the support troops: friends, family, aides, etc. Active
Learning is an international practice (Europe, Canada,
Austrailia), and is popular in Texas, the Michigan region with a
growing practice in California.
Who's
Practicing Active
Learning?
The World
LilliWorks Supplies Active Learning
Practitioners Across the World
Europe
The teacher Jette von Rotz-Cohn from
Switzerland is excellent in spreading the knowledge
about Active Learning.
The psychologist Paula Sterkenburg from the Netherlands
has gone around with Dr. Nielsen's book "Are you Blind?"
under her arm ever since she became familiar with it. She
and her colleques are excellent in spreading the use of
Active Learning.
Marianna Buultjens, head of one of the departments of the
University of Edinbourgh, Scotland has been a
fan of Active Learning for 20 years. Marianna has asked Dr.
Nielsen to come to the University and lecture about how to
make an assessment and a learning program for a learner with
disabilities.
South Africa
Dr. Johan van der Poel, noted educator
and author
America
Lead Active Learning Practitioners:Michigan
Penrickton Center
for Blind Children - www.penrickton.com - Taylor, MI. Specializes in treating
blind children ages one through twelve with a least one
additional handicap such as deafness, cerebral palsy, brain
damage, developmental delay and seizures.
Texas
Texas School for the Blind and The Visually
Impaired, TSBVI www.TSBVI.edu Austin,TX "A Center for Educational
Services for All Blind and Visually Impaired Students in
Texas."
California
Blind Babies Foundation
Indiana
Evansville
Association for the Blind
Active Learning is practiced by hundreds across the
following 44 states:
AK, AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, FL, GA, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA,
MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, NC, ND, NE, NH, NV, OH, OK, OR, PA,
SC, SD, TN, TX, VA, VT, WA, WI, WY
Links
Here are some useful links, relevant to Active Learning.
