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Anne Murphy Paul: Why Floundering Makes Learning Better | TIME Ideas | TIME.com - 0 views

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  • Call it the “learning paradox”: the more you struggle and even fail while you’re trying to master new information, the better you’re likely to recall and apply that information later.
  • second group was directed to solve the same problems by collaborating with one another, absent any prompts from their instructor.
  • the second group “significantly outperformed” the first.
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  • ead people to understand the deep structure of problems,
  • Phil Taylor on 04 May 12
     
    Call it the "learning paradox": the more you struggle and even fail while you're trying to master new information, the better you're likely to recall and apply that information later.
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3 Ideas To Help You Feel Better About Your Kids and Screens - 0 views

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    3 Ideas To Help You Feel Better About Your Kids and Screens http://t.co/sCtGMcXUpR
Phil Taylor

4 Ways to Make Your Brain Work Better | Mother Jones - 2 views

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  • Phil Taylor on 21 Feb 14
     
    "how do you use the internet better? Set rules for yourself"
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Are iPads, Smartphones, and the Mobile Web Rewiring the Way We Think?| The Committed Sa... - 0 views

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shared by Phil Taylor on 13 Aug 10 - Cached
  • e difference between quick skimming and scanning on the Web, which lodges in the brain's short-term memory and is quickly lost, and the long-term memories that a more thoughtful kind of slow reading provides. "I share Nicholas Carr's feeling that my brain has been rewired," he says.
  • "It's indisputable that the Internet has made us smarter.... The range of things you can explore in a day is just fantastic compared to 20 years ago," says David Weinberger, senior researcher at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. "There's no question that we feel the Internet has made us better researchers, better thinkers, better writers."
  • Books "are not the shape of knowledge," he says. "They're a limitation on knowledge." The idea of a single author presenting her ideas "was born of the limitations of paper publishing. It's not necessarily the only way or the best way to think and to write."
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  • Wolf makes sure she stays off-line at specific times. "For a half hour before bedtime and a half hour in the morning I do nothing digital," she says.
  • Phil Taylor on 13 Aug 10
     
    "e difference between quick skimming and scanning on the Web, which lodges in the brain's short-term memory and is quickly lost, and the long-term memories that a more thoughtful kind of slow reading provides. "I share Nicholas Carr's feeling that my brain has been rewired," he says."
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Child Safety on the Information Highway - 2013 - 20th Anniversary Edition | SafeKids.com - 0 views

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shared by Phil Taylor on 29 May 13 - No Cached
  • One thing we have learned in the last 20 years is that many young people — certainly most teens– are pretty savvy about how they use the Net, though all of us can use some reminders now and then.
  • And parents — even those who may be technologically challenged — continue to have a crucial role to play in guiding their children and helping them sort out and deal with the stresses of life, both online and offline.
  • A better strategy would be to teach children to be “street smart” in order to better safeguard themselves in any potentially uncomfortable or dangerous situation.
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6 Steps To Becoming A Better Twitter User - Edudemic - 0 views

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shared by Phil Taylor on 04 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • I began to build my personal learning network (PLN) I didn’t know a hashtag from a MT. But I knew something exciting was happening for educators on Twitter
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