Scientists say juggling e-mail, phone calls and other incoming information can change how people think and behave. They say our ability to focus is being undermined by bursts of information.
These play to a primitive impulse to respond to immediate opportunities and threats. The stimulation provokes excitement — a dopamine squirt — that researchers say can be addictive. In its absence, people feel bored.
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Your Brain on Computers - Attached to Technology and Paying a Price - NYTimes.com - 55 views
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“The technology is rewiring our brains,” said Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute of Drug Abuse and one of the world’s leading brain scientists. She and other researchers compare the lure of digital stimulation less to that of drugs and alcohol than to food and sex, which are essential but counterproductive in excess.
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While many people say multitasking makes them more productive, research shows otherwise. Heavy multitaskers actually have more trouble focusing and shutting out irrelevant information, scientists say, and they experience more stress.
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How Should Schools Handle Cyberbullying? - NYTimes.com - 17 views
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A really excellent article!
Mind - Research Upends Traditional Thinking on Study Habits - NYTimes.com - 50 views
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Some of our accepted guidelines for studying turn out not to be true.
Mind - Research Upends Traditional Thinking on Study Habits - NYTimes.com - 63 views
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Take the notion that children have specific learning styles, that some are “visual learners” and others are auditory; some are “left-brain” students, others “right-brain.” In a recent review of the relevant research, published in the journal Psychological Science in the Public Interest, a team of psychologists found almost zero support for such ideas.
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Might there still be reason to present material in multiform ways?
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Teaching for America - NYTimes.com - 24 views
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75 percent of young Americans, between the ages of 17 to 24, are unable to enlist in the military today because they have failed to graduate from high school, have a criminal record, or are physically unfit.
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Tony Wagner, the Harvard-based education expert and author of “The Global Achievement Gap,” explains it this way. There are three basic skills that students need if they want to thrive in a knowledge economy: the ability to do critical thinking and problem-solving; the ability to communicate effectively; and the ability to collaborate.
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Wagner thinks we should create a West Point for teachers: “We need a new National Education Academy, modeled after our military academies, to raise the status of the profession and to support the R.& D. that is essential for reinventing teaching, learning and assessment in the 21st century.”
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Student Expectations Seen as Causing Grade Disputes - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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I have seen this in high school, too. I think students have learned that A is doing going to be the default grade but the exceptional grade, but I have to admit C is not my defaut grade either, but a low grade.
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“Instead of getting an A, they make an A,” he said. “Similarly, if they make a lesser grade, it is not the teacher’s fault. Attributing the outcome of a failure to someone else is a common problem.”
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External locus of control seems to be attained later and later. I have many times explained this distinction to students. They see grades as something that results from how much a teacher likes them or luck more than how much effort they put in or how well they've written.
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if students developed a genuine interest in their field, grades would take a back seat, and holistic and intrinsically motivated learning could take place.
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Sadly, I wonder how realistic this is, based on what I've seen. I wish I taught in a school with no grades. They come between the student and learning.
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Student Expectations Seen as Causing Grade Disputes - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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students must “read for knowledge and write with the goal of exploring ideas.” This informal mission statement, along with special seminars for freshmen, is intended to help “re-teach students about what education is.”
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if students developed a genuine interest in their field, grades would take a back seat, and holistic and intrinsically motivated learning could take place
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Grades and entitlement
As Classrooms Go Digital, Textbooks May Become History - NYTimes.com - 1 views
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And throughout the district, a Beyond Textbooks initiative encourages teachers to create — and share — lessons
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Makes me wonder of textbooks inhibit collaboration by teachers.
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digitally nimble
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And they think of knowledge as infinite
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This is a powerful quote. Thinking back to my schooling, it could probably be said that I thought of knowledge as finite, only limited to what my teacher and textbook said.
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At Empire High School in Vail, Ariz., students use computers provided by the school to get their lessons, do their homework and hear podcasts of their teachers' science lectures. Down the road, at Cienega High School, students who own laptops can register for "digital sections" of several English, history and science classes. And throughout the district, a Beyond Textbooks initiative encourages teachers to create - and share - lessons that incorporate their own PowerPoint presentations, along with videos and research materials they find by sifting through reliable Internet sites.
Let the Children Play (Some More) - Happy Days Blog - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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Goof-off time shouldn’t be limited to summer vacation: it’s important all year.
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st American children in the not-so-distant past, “going out to play” was the norm. Today, according to a University of Michigan study,
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Just an hour a day of vigorous play — running, chasing, games like tag or dodge ball, and even dealing with or avoiding being excluded from these activities — can provide intense skill learning.
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In defense of play:
Reading and the Web - Texts Without Context - NYTimes.com - 44 views
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Analysis of multiple authors describing how web culture and mass participation are killing "long reading" and the thought processes that accompany it. Nicholas Carr and others. Interesting counterpoint to the digital collaboration utopia in the echo chamber.
Special Report - International Education - Universities Use Social Media to Connect - N... - 27 views
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Reading and the Web - Texts Without Context - NYTimes.com - 18 views
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This article describes a new book, Reality Hunger, which is essentially a mashup of quotes from other sources. The article discusses how are culture of short-form writing and reading is changing literature and reading. The book reminds me of elements of a Humument, which also took the work of another and then augmented that work into a new story and art form.
Building a Better Teacher - NYTimes.com - 36 views
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Can we build better teachers or just fire the ones who don't have "it" in hoes that we will hire new ones who do? And what is "it"?
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