On August 9, 1896, Swiss developmental psychologist and philosopher Jean Piaget was born. He is best known for his epistemological studies with children. In 1934, he declared that "only education is capable of
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On August 31, 1870, Italian physician and educator Maria Tecla Artemesia Montessori was born. She is probably best known for the philosophy of education that bears her name, and her writing on scientific pedagogy. Her educational method is in use today in public and private schools throughout the world.
Imagine the "Choose Your own Adventure" book series and DSM-IV had a love child.
"…an interactive fiction game where you play as someone living with depression. You are given a series of everyday life events and have to attempt to manage your illness, relationships, job, and possible treatment. This game aims to show other sufferers of depression that they are not alone in their feelings, and to illustrate to people who may not understand the illness the depths of what it can do to people."
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Dynamic and multi-modal web-based vocabulary learning tool for Biblical Hebrew. Built using XML, Python, CSS, Javascript, and HTML. From "Using the Vocabularies" ...can be sorted according to Hebrew, English gloss, root, semantic and frequency. Double clicking... displays... the Hebrew word (with animation from right to left), its gloss (approximate English rendering), root, grammatical information, and a relevant Hebrew phrase presenting the word in context. From "About the Project" ...developed at The University of Auckland in a project team consisting of staff from its School of Theology and the Centre for Flexible and Distance Learning. It utilises the web to provide the framework for a multimedia vocabulary which can be customised by teachers and augmented by selected scholars...