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Kasthuri Gopalaratnam

Gini Graham Scott: Mind Control Is Becoming Reality - 1 views

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    Taking focus to a whole new level! "While the equipment could have other uses for doctors, psychologists and other professionals working with the mind, developers are creating equipment that gamers can use to play with their minds." "The Neurosky Mindset includes a "Brainwave Visualizer" that lets you control on-screen shapes with your mind. A Math Trainer enables you to answer math questions with your mind. The company also has a MindHunter game in which you can fire a weapon by concentrating hard enough, or you can use the Mind Labyrinth where you travel by meditating through 52 levels of an ancient temple as your relax more and more. "
Kasthuri Gopalaratnam

UAHuntsville - Mind control will shape future of gaming and cell phones - UAHuntsville ... - 0 views

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    "Gaming will probably progress to the point where the player's mind will control and communicate with the gaming station. Perhaps transmitters will communicate back and generate gaming experiences in the player's mind without requiring a screen."
Jackie Iger

The Importance of Teaching Mindfulness | MindShift - 1 views

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    Investigating how our hyper-consumption of media affects attention and engagement.
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.
Chris Dede

Mind vs. Machine - Magazine - The Atlantic - 3 views

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    next steps in artificial intelligence
Leslie Lieman

Angry Birds, Farmville and Other Hyperaddictive 'Stupid Games' - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    The cover of the NYTimes magazine section: "The Hyperaddictive, Time-Sucking, Relationahip-Busting, Mind-Crushing, Power and Allure of Silly Digital Games." How about a flood of letters about serious games in response?
Tracy Cordner

Runescape II Best Online Game for Kids 13 to 83 - 0 views

  • Why I don't mind my grandson playing it!
  • Runescape II Why I don't mind my grandson playing it!
  • His typing skills now way surpass mine and I can type 40 words a minute., his reading has even improved.
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    A grandmother's post about why she thinks Runescape is great for kids. A rare older person's perception.
kshapton

Mindfulness meditation benefits and changes brain structures in 8 weeks - 1 views

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    Can self-awareness exercises change our brains for the better? Is the practice of meditation a kind of flow experience?
Matthew Ong

Where good ideas come from-Steven Johnson - 0 views

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    An interesting talk about how chance favors the connected mind. How do we create such spaces in the classroom, school or perhaps out of formal learning environments?
Jen Dick

Researchers Recommend Core Changes in Education | DML Hub - 2 views

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    New report from the Connected Learning Research Network (funded by MacArthur) on a new model. Much of what we've seen before, but it purports to actually address issues of inequity, which is something I don't see talked about very much in these kinds of reports other than to share interactions between effects and variables like race & SES if found. Also interesting: includes Clusters of 21st Century Cognitive Competencies, a mashup of workplace readiness skills, 21st Century Skills, and Habits of Mind. (Is that enough buzzword for ya?)
Tracy Tan

21st century classrooms needed for the future (Jorgen Lindgren Hansen, China Daily[CN],... - 0 views

(Restricted access article, posted here.) The article talks about re-organizing classrooms and schedules in order to cater to the needs of the 21st century classroom. At a time when new technology...

china classroom configuration schedule

started by Tracy Tan on 27 Mar 12 no follow-up yet
Lin Pang

What's Wrong With the Teenage Mind? - 3 views

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    an interesting point from the article: "adolescents aren't reckless because they underestimate risks, but because they overestimate rewards-or, rather, find rewards more rewarding than adults do."
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    I really enjoyed this article, thank you. I find it very interesting to explore from a neurological perspective how some aspects of our modern world impact children and teens. So often parents say that the world is different today, but it is important to realize that the way we function does not change so quickly.
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    I noticed this article as well - I think it's absolutely fascinating! Now I'm curious about the implications of these findings for designing educational technologies for adolescents: how can products take advantage of these proclivities? A more difficult question would be - is there any way that technologies can counteract these tendencies in order to bring more balance/rationality into a teenager's world?
Tracy Tan

Eye movements reveal readers' wandering minds - 0 views

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    Scientists recorded readers' eye movements when they were reading to monitor when they were 'spacing' out. Perhaps this could be used as a diagnostic tool for teachers?
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."
Xavier Rozas

Web is among world's 'destructive' technologies - 0 views

  • "Increasingly the Internet itself, given our reliance on it, is a source of destructive technology. I think we really have to worry about cyber terrorism and cyber crime increasingly. But there's obviously nuclear proliferation and bio-weapons and chemical weapons."
  • "I think it's had two diametrically opposed effects. One effect has been really good. It's created transformation and empowered people and allowed us to debunk bad ideas in a very ... decisive way. It's almost created a cognitive immune system for the planet."
  • He continued: "It's also empowered pranks and pseudoscience and bad information because every person on the Internet can sort of find the people like them and everyone can find an audience so there are certain forms of ignorance that would more or less be unthinkable without the Internet. Global jihad has been massively empowered by the Internet. Even things like the 911 truth conspiracy. That, to my mind, is an Internet phenomenon. No one would publish those books. This is something that is born of Web sites and Internet commentary."
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    Distructive...? Disruptive, yes. Internet is still finding ways to upend business models and psycho-social norms.
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.
Xavier Rozas

Brainpower...cooler than the Clapper - 2 views

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    I have heard about these type of devices before, but I think this is the first time I have seen them available for use by the public. Not exactly sure why they chose lights as the reactant, but I suspect it has something to do with the unique alpha/beta waves created by the brain in response ot lighting. Question is, which comes first the thought or the light bulb?
Aradhana Mudambi

Mind Movies - New technology to engage Law of Attraction - Free-Press-Release.com - 0 views

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    For those of you who watched the Secret, I thought this was really interesting.
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