Instead of teaching specific skills that may only be useful in specific areas, Lumosity targets core cognitive processes that underlie performance in many different areas. These processes include memory, attention and other abilities that are critical in the real world.
Lumosity is an online brain training website that uses games to strengthen such cognitive skills as memory, problem solving, attention, flexibility, speed, and more! It costs to have a subscription, but the few games that are free (including a speed math problem game!) are enormously fun and you can use them to improve and track your progress in those skill areas.
By the time the 15 minutes were up, they had spent only about 65 percent of the observation period actually doing their schoolwork.
Attending to multiple streams of information and entertainment while studying, doing homework, or even sitting in class has become common behavior among young people—so common that many of them rarely write a paper or complete a problem set any other way.
o detrimental is this practice that some researchers are proposing that a new prerequisite for academic and even professional success—the new marshmallow test of self-discipline—is the ability to resist a blinking inbox or a buzzing phone.
One large survey found that 80 percent of college students admit to texting during class; 15 percent say they send 11 or more texts in a single class period.
f you’re paying attention to your phone, you’re not paying attention to what’s going on in class.”
Now that these devices have been admitted into classrooms and study spaces, it has proven difficult to police the line between their approved and illicit uses by students.
ut listening to a lecture while texting, or doing homework and being on Facebook—each of these tasks is very demanding, and each of them uses the same area of the brain, the prefrontal cortex.”
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assignment takes longe
more mistakes.
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memory of what they’re working on will be impaired
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ur brains actually process and store information in different, less useful ways
Geometry Playground will change the way you think about geometry. This traveling exhibition engages your hands, brain, and body in playful investigations of this most visible branch of math.
Wishing you could visit the Exploratorium in San Francisco but can't afford the trip? Tide yourself over with their amazing online math resources, such as the Geometry Playground, which really bring math to life on your computer!
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