- What can science tell us about how pupils learn best? | Pragmatic Education "In this blog post I want to strip cognitive science down to its essence, and apply two litmus tests: One. To what extent is the scientific research robust, peer-reviewed and rewarding when re-read? Two. To what extent does the scientific evidence have practical classroom applications that reward re-using?"
- I Came, I Saw, I Learned...: Adobe Captivate, TechSmith Camtasia Studio, Articulate Storyline: Production Times "In my experience, it will take you approximately 2 hours of labor to produce 1 minute of eLearning playtime if you use Adobe Captivate..."
- Why Americans Are the WEIRDest People in the World --and what that does to the body of psychological knowledge gained by studying them. (White, Educated, Individualistic, Rich and Democratic.) And that might link with this: The Emergence of Niceness | Synthesis The body of economic literature will have to change, suggests new research. [...]The results explain some intriguing findings in experimental economics and [the authors] call for a new economic theory of “networked minds”.
- How Your Language Affects Your Wealth and Health: Scientific American "An international study suggests languages shape how we think about the future, and how we plan for it." Interesting, but correlation ain't causation--and another example of flakey but eye-catching "research" from a Business School.
- Sign Painters: What a Disappearing Art Teaches Us About Creative Purpose and Process | Brain Pickings "Sign painting appealed to my logical nature. It’s a way to pursue art with a right and a wrong."
- Big History: David Christian Covers 13.7 Billion Years of History in 18 Minutes | Open Culture Big History is a meta discipline that “examines long time frames using a multidisciplinary approach based on combining numerous disciplines from science and the humanities.”
- Reasoning Training Increases Brain Connectivity Associated with High-Level Cognition | Beautiful Minds, Scientific American Blog Network "...these findings do serve as proof of concept that reasoning training– even as brief as 3 months– can significantly alter connectivity in a brain network critical for high-level reasoning. These findings should not be understated, as they challenge traditional notions that intelligence is fixed,.." (with caveats, of course)
- wuglife: Exploring grammar via Sesame Street. "This is some of my favourite linguistics work - taking common prejudices and expectations and showing that things are a whole lot more nuanced and impressive than that. It’s the kind of work you want to share with as many people as possible to start breaking down the very judgmental ideas many have about language."
- Marc Fisher: A Sex-Abuse Scandal at Horace Mann : The New Yorker An extraordinary tale of a real-life variant on Tartt's 'Secret History' without the murder... Update 28 March: ...and here is a different take from Ben Yagoda in the Chronicle of Higher Education.
- NCBI ROFL: Zip-related genital injury. : Discoblog "Apparently, it’s horrifyingly more common than you might think; fortunately, there are several ways to get it unstuck."
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