“We’ve added a critical new chapter to the story about music and education,” says Kraus. “Due to the overlap between neural circuits dedicated to speech and music, and the distributed network of cognitive, sensorimotor, and reward circuits engaged during music making, it would appear that music training is a particularly potent driver of experience-dependent plasticity in the brain that influences processing of sound related to academics.”
How Families Can Balance Screen Time | The Cyber Safety Lady - 0 views
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A balanced article about screen time
Pixar's Rules of Storytelling - a gallery on Flickr - 1 views
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Brilliant gallery of posters of Pixar's Rules of Storytelling. CC licensed too :)
Resources for Shanty Towns - Google Docs - 1 views
Parents, Calm Down About Infant Screen Time | TIME - 1 views
Raw Density Design - 0 views
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Paste in a raw data set, choose some beautifully designed graphs and charts (infographic style)
Free Data Visualization Software | Tableau Public - 0 views
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Another data visualisation tool - more sophisticated than Excel
Thousands of Free Media Files in the Public Domain Project - 0 views
Teach Yourself Graphic Design: A Self-Study Course Outline - Tuts+ Design & Illustratio... - 1 views
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Design resources - links to online self-study
AIGA | Graphic Design Theory? - 0 views
4 Principles for Graphic Design in the Classroom | Thinking In Mind - 0 views
Smart-Camera Photography: Enrich Students' Creative Writing Skills | Edudemic - 0 views
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How photography can help improve students' writing.
10 Ways Principals Can Use Twitter | Mr. Carter's Office - 0 views
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Really neat, concise article about advantages to Twitter for principals.
Dealing With Digital Cruelty - NYTimes.com - 1 views
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How to deal with cruel comments on twitter/blog/youtube
Why Social Interaction Is Essential To Learning Math - 1 views
Cognitive Benefits of Playing Video Games | Psychology Today - 2 views
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If you are a parent who has been limiting your child's computer play because of the claims you have read of harmful effects, the research summarized here and in my previous posts on video gaming might give you pause. The bulk of the research suggests that the claims about negative effects of video gaming are largely myths and the positive effects are real. As children know in their bones, the kinds of mental skills that video games help to develop are among the skills that are increasingly important in today's world.
Failing Forward: 21 Ideas To Use It In Your Classroom - 0 views
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"Failing Forward" is a relatively recent entry into our cultural lexicon-at least as far has headlines go anyway-that has utility for students and teachers. Popularized from the book of the same name, the idea behind failing forward is to see failing as a part of success rather than its opposite. Provided we keep moving and pushing and trying and reflecting, failure should, assuming we're thinking clearly, lead to progress, So rather than failing and falling back, we fail forward. Tidy little metaphor.
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