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Nigel Coutts

Holiday Reading List - The Learner's Way - 0 views

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shared by Nigel Coutts on 22 Dec 19 - No Cached
  • Nigel Coutts on 22 Dec 19
     
    With summer in the southern hemisphere, long days combined with school holidays for school teachers create the perfect opportunity to relax with a good book. Here are five great reads that might spark some curiosity and keep the brain working over the break.
Rhondda Powling

Top 10 Ways to Teach Yourself to Code - 7 views

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shared by Rhondda Powling on 08 Feb 15 - No Cached
  • Rhondda Powling on 08 Feb 15
     
    "Programming is one of the most valuable skills you can pick up in these modern times, whether for career prospects or to stretch your brain and create something awesome. If you're just getting started on your coding journey, here are ten tips and resources to set you off on the right foot."
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Rhondda Powling

The 11 Best Science Books of 2011 | Brain Pickings - 2 views

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shared by Rhondda Powling on 17 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • Rhondda Powling on 17 Feb 12
     
    A look at 2011's most compelling science books, spanning everything from medicine to physics to quantum mechanics
Chris Betcher

Is the Internet hurting children? - CNN.com - 2 views

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shared by Chris Betcher on 03 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • By the time they're 2 years old, more than 90% of all American children have an online history. At 5, more than 50% regularly interact with a computer or tablet device, and by 7 or 8, many kids regularly play video games. Teenagers text an average of 3,400 times a month.
  • The impact of heavy media and technology use on kids' social, emotional and cognitive development is only beginning to be studied, and the emergent results are serious. While the research is still in its early stages, it suggests that the Internet may actually be changing how our brains work.
  • From PCs in school to online schooling Should you bet on Mark Zuckerberg? It goes without saying that digital media have also altered our fundamental notions of and respect for privacy. Young people now routinely post and share private, personal information and opinions on social media platforms without fully considering the potential consequences.
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  • We are at, arguably, an even more important crossroads when it comes to digital media and technology.
  • Movies today -- even G-rated ones -- contain significantly more sex and violence, on average, than movies with the same rating 10 or 20 years ago.
  • Chris Betcher on 03 Jun 12
     
    The explosive growth of social media, smartphones and digital devices is transforming our kids' lives, in school and at home. Research tells us that even the youngest of our children are migrating online, using tablets and smartphones, downloading apps. 
Rhondda Powling

Sketch and doodle your brains out. - 1 views

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painting drawing free tool

shared by Rhondda Powling on 06 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Rhondda Powling on 06 Sep 12
     
    Interesting free web based paint type program
Suzie Vesper

The New Atlantis » The Myth of Multitasking - 0 views

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shared by Suzie Vesper on 01 Sep 08 - Cached
  • Suzie Vesper on 01 Sep 08
     
    Interesting take on whether or not mulitasking or 'twitch speed' as I have heard it called is actually a good or bad thing.
Jess McCulloch

Manna, Chapter 1, by Marshall Brain - 0 views

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shared by Jess McCulloch on 02 Apr 08 - Cached
  • Jess McCulloch on 02 Apr 08
     
    this story was recommended to me by David Kees (davidkees.blogspot.com) in response to a post I wrote about mLearning where David states that we may be shortsighting ourselves if we see mLearning only as a learning plarform.
Roland Gesthuizen

Test-Taking Cements Knowledge Better Than Studying, Researchers Say - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 22 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • Taking a test is not just a passive mechanism for assessing how much people know, according to new research. It actually helps people learn, and it works better than a number of other studying techniques.
  • students who read a passage, then took a test asking them to recall what they had read, retained about 50 percent more of the information a week later than students who used two other methods.
  • What we recall becomes more recallable in the future. In a sense you are practicing what you are going to need to do later
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  • the struggle involved in recalling something helps reinforce it in our brains
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 22 Jan 11
     
    Taking a test is not just a passive mechanism for assessing how much people know, according to new research. It actually helps people learn, and it works better than a number of other studying techniques.
John Pearce

Born to Learn ~ You are Born to Learn - 5 views

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shared by John Pearce on 21 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • John Pearce on 21 Apr 11
     
    "Born to learn is a fun, thought-provoking series of animations that illustrate ground-breaking new discoveries about how humans learn. "
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