Art, Architecture, Nature and Mathematics: The Golden Ratio and the Modulor
The "golden ratio" evokes a mysterious universe... This number is also referred to as the "divine proportion": 1.6180339887. What is special about this number? Why can it interest biologists, mathematicians and artists? This article offers some answers.
Learning the meaning of sacrifice
Learning sacrifice rather than just immediate individual profit, but how is this possible?
The pedagogy of the out-of-home
Schools isolate young people behind walls and often turn in on themselves, around programs, learning situations and evaluation where children sometimes have difficulty finding meaning. This is the observation made by Guillaume Sabin in "La joie du dehors".
How can we build a pedagogy that is open to the outside world, where students can meet the actors of the economic, cultural and social life? Guillaume Sabin gives us some ideas.
Measuring. To control or to accompany?
Classical platforms provide us with data that is not enough to provide remediation when learners encounter difficulties. Database, cognitive psychology, and training specialists are trying to go further with cognitive tutors, and distance learning actors are expressing needs that go even further...
Deployment, encoding: how is attention measured
How long can we stay attentive? What affects attention? What kind of attention is needed to learn to read or to solve an equation?
The causes of a decrease in attention can be multiple, but once you have a measure, you can already rely on something. 8 tests to measure attention.