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Tips to reduce screen time, recommended by Robyn Treyvaud

Hans Rosling spoke at the IB Asia Pacific conference in 2012. If you don't know his work, here's a short introduction to how he uses data to tell stories.

Fascinating article about Sex-Ed class - what we should be teaching kids about. 

Article citing new findings about brain changes in people showing internet addiction disorder.

It is a little bit annoying, it plays music and isn't technologically advanced and it has ads before each game, but it does have games on the skeletal, articular, muscular, circulatory, reparatory, nervous, digestive, endocrine systems, for older students maybe as a reinforcement?

a great website to read the latest science news

Article re how the color and shape of rooms affects the thinking that goes on inside the rooms... "They tested 600 subjects when surrounded by red, blue or neutral colors-in both real and virtual environments. The differences were striking. Test-takers in the red environments, were much better at skills that required accuracy and attention to detail, such as catching spelling mistakes or keeping random numbers in short-term memory. Though people in the blue group performed worse on short-term memory tasks, they did far better on tasks requiring some imagination, such as coming up with creative uses for a brick or designing a children's toy. In fact, subjects in the blue environment generated twice as many "creative outputs" as subjects in the red one. Why? According to the scientists, the color blue automatically triggers associations with openness and sky, while red makes us think of danger and stop signs. (Such associations are culturally mediated, of course; Chinese, for instance, tend to associate red with prosperity and good luck.) It's not just color. A similar effect seems to hold for any light, airy space."