Today we launched a site we have been working on for the past few months: the IB Community Theme web platform.
It has been developed to help schools integrate curriculum planning and activities around 6 major global issues into school life … and to share results, successes and stories with the global IB community.
It is an exciting venture in terms of the IB’s digital space and our first proper foray into linking Web 2.0 concepts with community-based site development.
We hope you like it and feel able to contribute.
OPLS team.
A Harvard University scientist claims four key differences separate human and animal cognition. Marc Hauser, professor of psychology, biological anthropology, and organismic and evolutionary biology in Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, presents his theory of “humaniqueness.”
Hauser states that the four novel components of human cognition are:
- the abilities to combine and recombine different types of information and knowledge to gain new understanding;
- to apply the same “rule” or solution to one problem to a different and new situation;
- to create and easily understand symbolic representations of computation and sensory input;
- to detach modes of thought from raw sensory and perceptual input.
See the full press release here.
