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Author Nicholas Carr: The Web Shatters Focus, Rewires Brains | Magazine - 1 views

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  • it would be a serious mistake to look narrowly at such benefits and conclude that the Web is making us smarter.
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      Keith Hamon on 05 Jul 10
       
      Is it not also a mistake to look at the same evidence and conclude that the Web is making us dumber?
  • Keith Hamon on 05 Jul 10
     
    What kind of brain is the Web giving us? There is much we know or can surmise-and the news is quite disturbing. Dozens of studies by psychologists, neurobiologists, and educators point to the same conclusion: When we go online, we enter an environment that promotes cursory reading, hurried and distracted thinking, and superficial learning. Even as the Internet grants us easy access to vast amounts of information, it is turning us into shallower thinkers, literally changing the structure of our brain.
Keith Hamon

The Creativity Crisis - Newsweek - 0 views

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  • The correlation to lifetime creative accomplishment was more than three times stronger for childhood creativity than childhood IQ.
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      Keith Hamon on 21 Sep 10
       
      Creativity is key to success in 21st Century, but are we creating opportunities for creativity in our classrooms?
  • The European Union designated 2009 as the European Year of Creativity and Innovation, holding conferences on the neuroscience of creativity, financing teacher training, and instituting problem-based learning programs—curricula driven by real-world inquiry—for both children and adults. In China there has been widespread education reform to extinguish the drill-and-kill teaching style. Instead, Chinese schools are also adopting a problem-based learning approach.
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      Keith Hamon on 21 Sep 10
       
      Problem-based learning matches QEP's emphasis on moving content-delivery out of the classroom to replace it with classroom activities that apply the content to problem solving and critical thinking.
  • The creative problem-solving program has the highest success in increasing children’s creativity
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      Keith Hamon on 21 Sep 10
       
      Creative problem-solving? Is creativity a part of critical thinking? What's the benefit in separating them?
  • Keith Hamon on 21 Sep 10
     
    What's shocking is how incredibly well Torrance's creativity index predicted those kids' creative accomplishments as adults. Those who came up with more good ideas on Torrance's tasks grew up to be entrepreneurs, inventors, college presidents, authors, doctors, diplomats, and software developers. Jonathan Plucker of Indiana University recently reanalyzed Torrance's data. The correlation to lifetime creative accomplishment was more than three times stronger for childhood creativity than childhood IQ.
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Frontal Cortex | Wired Science | Wired.com - 0 views

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  • Because the subjects were thinking about what they got wrong, they learned how to get it right.
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      Keith Hamon on 05 Oct 11
       
      This suggests one of the strengths of reflective writing & ungraded writing: a space where people can be free to fail without a grade penalty and then reflect on that failure and learn from it. This works very much against our usual drive to transfer the "right answer" to our students.
  • The problem with praising kids for their innate intelligence — the “smart” compliment — is that it misrepresents the psychological reality of education. It encourages kids to avoid the most useful kind of learning activities, which is when we learn from our mistakes. Because unless we experience the unpleasant symptoms of being wrong — that surge of Pe activity a few hundred milliseconds after the error, directing our attention to the very thing we’d like to ignore — the mind will never revise its models. We’ll keep on making the same mistakes, forsaking self-improvement for the sake of self-confidence. Samuel Beckett had the right attitude: “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.”
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      Keith Hamon on 05 Oct 11
       
      Let's find ways to reward those who are willing to stretch into failure and then learn from those experiments-NOT those who seek only the safe, sure answer.
  • Keith Hamon on 05 Oct 11
     
    The physicist Niels Bohr once defined an expert as "a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field." Bohr's quip summarizes one of the essential lessons of learning, which is that people learn how to get it right by getting it wrong again and again. Education isn't magic. Education is the wisdom wrung from failure.
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