Helping Your Patients Become Active

Helping your patients to help themselves.

Helping children become qualitative modelers

Early science education is essentially qualitative. Children must learn causal theories: what kinds of things happen, when they happen, and what their consequences are. Although modeling is a key skill in scientific reasoning, traditional modeling techniques do not express causal theories explicitly, and rely on higher mathematics (such as algebra) that children do not learn until later. We bel...

Helping Students Become Skilled Practitioners

Becoming a skilled practitioner means learning both conceptual and process knowledge. We propose the use of hypermedia to provide components of an apprenticeship learning model for students, in which process and conceptual knowledge learning is integrated. Our model for this use of hypermedia is called an Apprenticeship Based Learning Environment (ABLE). We present seven design principles for a...

Helping nephrologists become lifelong learners.

Ronald J. Falk,* Mark E. Rosenberg, Jerry Yee, Patrick T. Murray, and Tod Ibrahim *University of North Carolina Kidney Center and Division of Nephrology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina; Division of Nephrology, University of Minnesota School of Medicine, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Division of Nephrology, Henry Ford Health Systems, Detroit, Michigan; Uni...

Helping expectations become reality for dying cancer patients.