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Ryan Brown

Why You Should Not Buy Your Child an iPad | PCWorld - 0 views

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ipad children education technology

shared by Ryan Brown on 27 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • Ryan Brown on 27 Apr 12
     
    This author makes arguments against buying iPads for children. At one point he states, "iPad isolation can lead to poor social skills at a time when kids are just learning how to interact with each other."
Tracy Tan

Irish schools make switch to ebooks; Textbooks go hi-tech as students learn on iPads an... - 0 views

Access to the site is by subscription, so I am including the article here: T'S a sad day for doodlers. The dog-eared textbook is on its final chapter in Ireland as schools switch to ebooks. More t...

ipads proliferation

started by Tracy Tan on 29 Feb 12 no follow-up yet
Tracy Tan

Solar Ipads for schools in rural South Africa (Gabrielle Monaghian, The Sunday Times [... - 0 views

Access to the site is by subscription only, so I am including the article here: A solar-powered iPad described as a "school in a box" has been developed by the Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Desi...

solar ipad soth africa

started by Tracy Tan on 29 Feb 12 no follow-up yet
Katerina Manoff

School leavers given 'de-text' lessons to speak the language business needs; Social med... - 2 views

I've been reading a lot about this trend - I think it's equally prevalent in the US. I wonder how much of it is caused by our move away from school as preparation for career to school as a place fo...

social media text-speak sms language poor skills

started by Tracy Tan on 29 Feb 12 1 follow-up, last by Katerina Manoff on 03 Mar 12
Parisa Rouhani

No fair! Why your brain hates inequities - Behavior- msnbc.com - 0 views

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brain activity equity fair

shared by Parisa Rouhani on 25 Feb 10 - No Cached
  • people prefer a level playing field,
  • Our study shows that the brain doesn’t just reflect self-interested goals, but instead, these basic reward processing regions of the brain seem to be affected by social information
  • humans are attuned to inequality, and we just don't like it.
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  • The researchers monitored signals in the striatum and prefrontal cortex , parts of the brain thought to be involved in how people evaluate rewards. They found that the brain activity in these areas was greater for the "rich" subjects when money was transferred to the other player than to themselves, whereas the "poor" subjects' brains showed the opposite pattern
  • n other words, everyone seemed to prefer a financial equality.
  • these regions were responding most when the outcome would be the most fair,
  • Parisa Rouhani on 25 Feb 10
     
    research shows that people prefer equity in situations. fairness affects one's emotions about a situation
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