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Teach Them to Read and Let Them Go!

August 11, 2008

Having conventional life stages mapped out is comforting–we know what we are supposed do and when; but what if life doesn’t always fit in a box? Or what if, as recent developmental research implies, there is no box?

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Shelved with: Mind & Society|| The Reading Life
Tagged With: Daniel T. Willingham, Deschooling, High School, Homeschool, Jean Piaget, Life Without School, Multi-Scale, Parenting, Psychology, Shakespeare, Stories, Unschooling
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There’s Something Happening Here…

August 5, 2008

Nicholas Carr says, This is your brain online. You’ve been warned. Now go forth and read.

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Shelved with: Mind & Society|| Science & Technology|| The Reading Life
Tagged With: Books, Buffalo Springfield, Clay Shirky, Digital Literacy, Google, Kevin Kelly, Media, Nicholas Carr, Psychology
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Total Recall

May 3, 2008

Wired magazine has published a profile of Piotr Wozniak, developer of Super Memo, who has figured out how to remember everything you’ll ever learn. Ironically enough, the author refers to an article I remember reading when it came out in American Psychologist: “The Spacing Effect: A Case Study in the Failure to Apply the Results […]

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Shelved with: Margin Notes|| Mind & Society
Tagged With: Geography, Homeschooling, Programming, Psychology, Quizlet, Resources, Super Memo, Vocabulary
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WordPress 2.5 Widgets: Taking the Load Off Your Mind

April 24, 2008

WordPress, the free and open-source software that runs this site, has recently been the victim of a major upgrade. We can draw on educational psychology to help us understand where the redesign fails, and how we might do better.

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Shelved with: Mind & Society|| RCB|| Science & Technology|| The Reading Life
Tagged With: 2.5, Analogy, Digital Literacy, HTML, Psychology, Usability, Widgets, WordPress
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