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Keri-Lee Beasley

How computers change the way we learn - 0 views

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    "While there's no doubt that information technology can have its downsides for our day-to-day behaviour, there is very little evidence that computers are damaging our brains - any more than writing made us more forgetful. In fact, computers might just make us a bit smarter."
Louise Phinney

Does Technology Make Us Smarter or Dumber? | TIME.com - 0 views

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    "So does technology make us stupid, or smart? The answer is "both," and the choice is up to us."
iantymms

Reading Literature Makes Us Smarter and Nicer | TIME.com - 0 views

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    Literature 
Keri-Lee Beasley

How Digital Writing Is Making Kids Smarter | graphite Blog - 0 views

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    Kids are writing more than ever before. 
Katie Day

YouTube - Stuart Brown: Why play is vital -- no matter your age - 0 views

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    "A pioneer in research on play, Stuart Brown says humor, games, roughhousing, flirtation and fantasy are more than just fun. Plenty of play in childhood makes for happy, smart adults -- and keeping it up can make us smarter at any age."
Keri-Lee Beasley

Why Some Teams Are Smarter Than Others - NYTimes.com - 2 views

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    "Instead, the smartest teams were distinguished by three characteristics. First, their members contributed more equally to the team's discussions, rather than letting one or two people dominate the group. Second, their members scored higher on a test called Reading the Mind in the Eyes, which measures how well people can read complex emotional states from images of faces with only the eyes visible. Finally, teams with more women outperformed teams with more men. Indeed, it appeared that it was not "diversity" (having equal numbers of men and women) that mattered for a team's intelligence, but simply having more women. This last effect, however, was partly explained by the fact that women, on average, were better at "mindreading" than men."
Katie Day

Smarter Than That - when in doubt, try it out! - 0 views

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    blog/website that promotes science -- for kids, for anyone - experiments, articles, fun stuff - by a physicist
Katie Day

New site tracks science misconceptions in middle/high school students - 0 views

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    The American Association for the Advancement of Science's Project 2061 (an imitative to improve science, math and technology literacy) -- "A new Web site is taking aim at this challenge, providing educators with quick lists of scientific statements broken down by subject matter, highlighting concepts that tend to be misunderstood by students.... The site (which is accessible after free registration) also provides teachers with some 600 multiple choice questions for tests that could help pinpoint conceptual sticking points. Multiple-choice tests have drawn criticism for being too reductive, and DeBoer acknowledges that "too often test questions are not linked explicitly to the ideas and skills that the students are expected to learn." So to figure out just what kids know-or think they know-researchers involved in the seven-year-long project tested more than 150,000 students in some 1,000 classrooms and conducted interviews with many of them to try to figure out how well the questions were getting at the underlying understandings."
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