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Carla Shinn

What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains - 20 views

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shared by Carla Shinn on 22 May 13 - No Cached
  • Carla Shinn on 22 May 13
     
    Original video here. Hidden Gems in video link below.
Carla Shinn

The Reading Brain in the Digital Age: The Science of Paper Versus Screens - 31 views

www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm

reading Information fluency research 2.0

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  • Carla Shinn on 11 May 13
     
    "E-readers and tablets are becoming more popular as such technologies improve, but research suggests that reading on paper still boasts unique advantages." I suggest you try this article in Print Friendly.
Carla Shinn

Beyond the Book: Infographics of Students' Reading History - 19 views

www.edutopia.org/...ts-reading-history-sarah-gross

reading reading promotion books Information fluency cool tools

shared by Carla Shinn on 18 Jun 13 - No Cached
  • Carla Shinn on 18 Jun 13
     
    "Recently, I've also been fascinated by the way the human mind interprets visual symbols. From doodling to reading and writing text, the brain is wired with a proclivity for visual sensory ability. In order to help students harness this power, we have been trying our hand at visual notes and sketchnoting in class. Then I decided to try some lessons with infographics."
  • Carla Shinn on 20 Jun 13
     
    Here's Joyce Valenza's take on the idea, with suggestions for collaboration with teachers and some other web 2.0 tools: http://blogs.slj.com/neverendingsearch/2013/06/20/recording-kids-history-as-readers/
Geise Library

The Reading Brain in the Digital Age: The Science of Paper versus Screens: Scientific A... - 0 views

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reading online research

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  • Geise Library on 14 Apr 13
     
    Onscreen vs paper reading
caswamy

CLAT Coaching in Bangalore | BRICS CA Institute - 0 views

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clat coaching institutes in bangalore

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  • caswamy on 27 Sep 16
     
    CLAT (Common Law Admission Test) is a test for high school (class XII) passed students in order to pursue a career in legal services. It grips the Law Entrance Exam ticket for the candidates who sight the significance and the enormous increase in demand for economical legal brains in the nation.
puzznbuzzus

How to Prepare Aptitude Test for Competitive Exams - 0 views

Practice as many questions before your assessment. The more psychometric aptitude test questions you practice the more your speed, accuracy and confidence will improve. Improving these factors will...

Aptitude Test Online

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Martha Hickson

Six Vintage-Inspired Animations on Critical Thinking | Brain Pickings - 27 views

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critical_thinking

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  • Martha Hickson on 24 Jun 12
     
    two-minute animations on various aspects of critical thinking, aimed at school ages 8 to 10, or kids between the ages of 13 and 15, but also designed to resonate with grown-ups. Inspired by the animation style of the 1950s, most recognizably Saul Bass, the films are designed to promote a set of educational resources on critical thinking by TechNYou, an emerging technologies public information project funded by the Australian government.
Martha Hickson

The Baloney Detection Kit: A 10-Point Checklist for Science Literacy | Brain Pickings - 13 views

www.brainpickings.org/...baloney-detection-kit

web_evaluation information_literacy critical_thinking

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  • Martha Hickson on 24 Jun 12
     
    "Baloney Detection Kit" for grown-ups from the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science and Skeptic Magazine editor Michael Shermer - a 10-point checklist for assessing the believability of a claim
Jamin Henley

Can E-Books Make Society and Education Better? | Online Universities - 15 views

www.onlineuniversities.com/...e-society-and-education-better

society education reading

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  • 65% of college freshmen read for pleasure for less than an hour per week or not at all
  • The percentage of non-readers among these students has nearly doubled—climbing 18 points since they graduated from high school
  • By the time they become college seniors, one in three students read nothing at all for pleasure in a given week.
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  • Not reading won’t kill you, but it will also make you a less interesting, engaged, and intellectual person
  • reading literature also helps to develop an individual’s emotional literacy
  • Reading about an event or the inner working of someone else’s mind or emotions stimulates the human brain to experience those same feelings or to essentially have the same experience in terms of memory that they would have if they actually did the activity or experienced the emotions themselves
  • The main activity of a college education is critical thinking and intellectual engagement: most of the background work for this endeavor is done through reading
  • Ubiquitous video, or some other information technology, may one day overtake the written word as the foundation of our literacy, but for the moment, reading and writing are the keys to full and fruitful participation in human society
  • Jamin Henley on 30 May 12
     
    As recently as 2007, there was note of an alarming trend of young people not reading
Robin Cicchetti

The Business Case for Reading Novels - Anne Kreamer - Harvard Business Review - 14 views

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data reading promotion reading

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  • in fMRI studies of people reading fiction, neuroscientists detect activity in the pre-frontal cortex — a part of the brain involved with setting goals — when the participants read about characters setting a new goal. It turns out that when Henry James, more than a century ago, defended the value of fiction by saying that "a novel is a direct impression of life," he was more right than he knew.
  • they discovered "a significant relation between the amount of fiction people read and their empathic and theory-of-mind abilities" allowing them to conclude that it was reading fiction that improved the subjects' social skills, not that those with already high interpersonal skills tended to read more.
  • It's when we read fiction that we have the time and opportunity to think deeply about the feelings of others, really imagining the shape and flavor of alternate worlds of experience.
  • Robin Cicchetti on 18 Jan 12
     
    Data on the benefits of reading fiction.
anonymous

7 Image Search Tools That Will Change Your Life | Brain Pickings - 57 views

www.brainpickings.org/...best-image-search-tools

search image tools photos creative commons visualengines visual engine

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  • anonymous on 19 Nov 11
     
    Excellent search tools.  Great for visual learners.  Compfight even does Creative Commons.
Sue Hayter

Serious reading takes a hit from online scanning and skimming, researchers say - The Wa... - 13 views

www.washingtonpost.com/...3-b899-20667de76985_story.html

Reading reading online literacy information literacy

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  • Carla Shinn on 09 Apr 14
     
    "I worry that the superficial way we read during the day is affecting us when we have to read with more in-depth processing," said Maryanne Wolf, a Tufts University cognitive neuroscientist and the author of "Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain."
  • Sue Hayter on 11 Apr 14
     
    I wonder if anyone else has noticed this phenomenon in their own reading ... I know I have, sadly.
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