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"ScienceDaily (Mar. 28, 2011) - By combining sophisticated mathematical techniques more commonly used by spies instead of scientists with the power and versatility of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), a Penn neurologist has developed a new approach for studying the inner workings of the brain. A hidden pattern is encoded in the seemingly random order of things presented to a human subject, which the brain reveals when observed with fMRI. The research is published in the journal NeuroImage."

"Student takes a picture of work with his high-res camera phone and texts it to the other students in his group. Student then leaves the room. This kind of remediation is really common. I will often run little clinics during odd liminal times of the day. The students who get left off the Socratic train during class often just need a small piece of direct instruction that they can back-fill under the conceptualization. I didn't see the phone coming. I can only imagine how that student's brain may have engaged differently if he had to copy everything I was writing while listening to me while hoping to go to lunch quickly. "