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Uly Lalunio

Multimedia Memory Boost: Learning by listening as we sleep --- Scientific American - 1 views

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    A new study suggests that a video before bed or a recording played while asleep can enhance learning and memory.
Ryan Brown

The new iPad: A video-game changer? - 0 views

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    "This new device actually has more memory and higher screen resolution than an Xbox 360 or Playstation 3," said Mike Capps, CEO of Epic Games. "So, these guys [Apple] are redefining mobile gaming again."
Uly Lalunio

Observations: Not merely slipping away: Forgetting requires biochemical action - 1 views

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    "It has long been understood that memroy formation is an active and often exhausting process, losing them seems to happen quite passively as time elapses and new information overloads our busy brains. But a new study published February 19 in the journal Cell shows that forgetting is a biochemically active process not unlike memory formation."
Kellie Demmler

Tim Newlin: Get Smart! Doodle! - Teachers.Net Gazette - 0 views

  • doodle
  • People who doodle are smart - they pay more attention and remember things better than those
  • Doodling engages the two halves of the brain on a concrete task that keeps it from leaving the focus of what is being said or presented in real life
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  • Fidgeting - like twirling or chewing a pencil or playing with your hair - seems to have the same positive memory effects.
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    While mini articles such as this often leave out half the research - the concept of doodling being an enhancer rather than a distraction is interesting.  The main point is that doodling engages the brain just enough to keep students from spacing out.  
Xiaodi Chen

Learn something new every day - Memrise - 4 views

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    This is such a well-designed learning platform! 
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    How's your Spanish/Italian going? Do you think this site is good for fostering creativity as well as memorization?
Chris Mosier

Can You Make Yourself Smarter? - 2 views

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    story of a third grade class in Chicago using a computer-based memory game to improve their "fluid intelligence." article focuses on the work of Susanne Jaeggi and Martin Buschkuehl of the University of Maryland
Stephanie Fitzgerald

What All Teachers Should Learn from Jazz-band Teachers | Psychology Today - 1 views

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    This article suggests lessons that other teachers can learn from jazz teachers in motivating students and talks about the social, constructivist, and personal aspects of jazz that make it a passion for students who may otherwise be uninterested in school. "Students need to be doing something every day to demonstrate their learning."
Chris McEnroe

A Picture of Language - NYTimes.com - 2 views

  • It was more than 300 pages long,
  • unipersonal
  • rhetorico-grammatical figures
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    this article reminded me how unengaged I was/am by the idea of diagramming sentences in spite of some people I know who thrill in the memories. It seems to me that the ipad offers some ap capability to reinvent this idea and make it even more visual.
Tom Keffer

A Sharper Mind, Middle Age and Beyond - 1 views

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    From a learning point of view, aging has its consolations, along with its detriments like loss of memory and quick math skills. Read this if you want a general perspective on research into the mature adult mind.
Jerald Cole

Scholars Turn Their Attention to Attention - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Hi... - 2 views

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    Good article on the issue of divided attention as a consequence of technology-enhanced multitasking in the classroom.
Soomi Hong

Oldsters' New Fountain of Youth: Video Games - 1 views

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    Some specially tailored games seem to help preserve mental fitness.
Parisa Rouhani

FOXNews.com - How to Map the Human Brain - 0 views

  • But as many as 10 people must trace each neuron to catch errors, out of a team of several dozen.
  • no single wiring diagram looked the same for any animal. The wiring diagrams for the left and right ear muscles of the same animal also looked different, despite the muscles having an identical purpose.
  • hey represent simple challenges compared to the brain. They also know the exact purpose of the neurons and their connections in those cases
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  • memories are written in connectomes," Seung explained. "We may also be able to find connectopathies, or miswirings of the brain that cause mental disorders."
Cailean Cooke

For the Brain, A Race to Recall Details - 0 views

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    Researchers from Yale and Stanford study how people make face and scene associations.
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