But in recent years Adderall and Ritalin, another stimulant, have been adopted as cognitive enhancers: drugs that high-functioning, overcommitted people take to become higher-functioning and more overcommitted. (Such use is “off label,” meaning that it does not have the approval of either the drug’s manufacturer or the Food and Drug Administration.) College campuses have become laboratories for experimentation with neuroenhancement
Group items tagged
Flipped Class Method Gaining Ground | District Administration Magazine - 0 views
-
Article on Flipped Classroom success in Michigan high school.
A Reporter at Large: Brain Gain: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker - 0 views
-
-
This article was interesting to me because in an interview with the author, she stated that these drugs enhance cognition in more logical, left-brained skills, and decrease creative thinking. Clearly, students feel that the skills they are being challenged to remember, retain, and perform best in are those left-brain subject areas, rather than being challenged in the arts, communication, and creativity.
-
Online videoconferencing: Web tools such as uStream make video broadcasting accessible.... - 0 views
1 - 4 of 4
Showing 20▼ items per page