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Amy Burvall

A Nation of Wimps | Psychology Today - 1 views

  • Behold the wholly sanitized childhood, without skinned knees or the occasional C in history. "Kids need to feel badly sometimes," says child psychologist David Elkind, professor at Tufts University. "We learn through experience and we learn through bad experiences. Through failure we learn how to cope."
  • Although error and experimentation are the true mothers of success, parents are taking pains to remove failure from the equation.
  • With few challenges all their own, kids are unable to forge their creative adaptations to the normal vicissitudes of life
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  • These turn out to be the spreading psychic fault lines of 21st-century youth. Whether we want to or not, we're on our way to creating a nation of wimps
  • The mental state of students is now so precarious for so many that, says Steven Hyman, provost of Harvard University and former director of the National Institute of Mental Health, "it is interfering with the core mission of the university."
Christina Cortese

"Ask a Mortician" ETHICS - 57 views

Are you treated differently when you tell people you're a mortician? How do they react to your line of work? Do they think it's weird, do they treat you somewhat negatively afterwards? Do you view ...

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Amy Burvall

Collaborative Arts Share - 0 views

I'm starting this topic as a thread for us to share our favorite art (music , visual, drama, design, fashion, etc.). I was thinking about doing a Pinterest Collaborative Board http://pinterest.com/...

started by Amy Burvall on 20 Sep 12 no follow-up yet
Amy Burvall

Six Famous Thought Experiments, Animated in 60 Seconds Each | Brain Pickings - 0 views

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    Animated Thought Experiments - (Reasoning)
David Uherek

Stephen Fry: What I Wish I Knew When I Was 18 - 142 views

I think he has a lot of really insightful things to say about life and the way that humans think of things. Like what he is saying at 6:40 to 7:10, us as humans would sympathise more with a person ...

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Tara Hashimoto

Regret/Life lessons 15:25 - 1 views

Fry talks about how he wishes that his younger self had read the book that he has written. This is really sad because you can never go back and change what is already done. No matter how much he wi...

started by Tara Hashimoto on 12 Sep 12 no follow-up yet
anonymous

The Availability Heuristic: Camille E, Danny, Kari & Haley - 13 views

"you dont think in statistics you think in examples" availability heuristic: define, eplain etc. opening a book* smoking: knowing a smoker with cancer etc versus knowing smokers with no health comp...

Cheryl Kapahu

Jaime Carina Cheryl - 6 views

Tuesday on the free period before lunch we're going to film. use a flip camera Cara can put all the videos together and edit them

#priming #yournotassmartasyouthinkyouare

Nicolas Vinsonhaler

Coburn, Logan S, Nick V, Luke S - 6 views

I feel that after reading this passage we all have experienced Normalcy bias a couple times in our life. I feel that it is a immediate coping mechanism for people who fear death. This is probably t...

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Amy Burvall

ToK Essay Advice.wmv - YouTube - 0 views

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    Made by a teacher last year- advice from the IB to students and teachers preparing to write the TOk essay.
Christina Cortese

Brand Loyalty - 9 views

Like Devon, I thought the Fanboys concept was really interesting - and found it to be incredibly true after thinking about the way my friends act. My dad is certainly an Apple Fanboy - although he ...

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Makena McPherson

APOPHENIA- Steph, Tobin, Makena, Angie - 20 views

So this idea just came to me!! I think we should continue with the animation theme and make an apophenia fairy who crushes the special-ness out of everything. Just a thought....

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Jordan Sadler

The Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy - 12 views

1 Minute Each Audio: Juliun: Truths Kai: Misconceptions Johann: Main Points Jordan: Examples

who writes tags anyway?

Amy Burvall

Groupthink and Social Loafing - 12 views

oh- sorry about the jewel beetle- beer bottle thing

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Amy Burvall

The Argument from Authority - Cody, Jenkins, Max, Cofran - 16 views

good points Cofran and Max...at this stage of your academic career it's important that defined in-the-box instructions are tossed out the window (too confining) and you are allowed and expected to ...

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Amy Burvall

Venice Biennale 2012: i-city / Russia Pavilion | ArchDaily - 0 views

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    check out the QR code extravaganza!
Taylor Heckman

Nikki, Sari, Alanna, Taylor H - 7 views

http://www.sciencedaily.com/articles/c/confirmation_bias.htm

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