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Consider the Squirrel…

If you have a chance, I highly recommend reading The Distracted Mind — especially if you’ll be…



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Action Video Games Harm the Hippocampus, Right?

Here’s a headline to get your attention: Action video games decrease gray matter, study finds….



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The Neural Effects of Media Multitasking

If you’re attending Learning and the Brain’s “Merging Minds and Technology” Conference in November, you’re…



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Online K-12 Schools

The upcoming Learning and the Brain Conference (Boston, November) will focus on “Merging Minds and…



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Cell Phones in the Classroom: Expected (and Unexpected) Effects

Quick! Where’s your cell phone? Now that I’ve got your attention: what effect does the…



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Video Games and Empathy

Do violent video games reduce empathy? If people spend lots of time pretending to beat…



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What He Said

In recent weeks, this blog has written about the dangerous assumption that students can just…



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Classroom Data to Enhance STEM Teaching

Regular readers of this blog remember Scott MacClintic’s post about “data informed instruction”; quoting W….



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Once Upon a Digital Time…

A recent study suggests that 3- and 4-year old children understand as much, and learn…



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The Distracted Mind: Ancient Brains in a High-Tech World by...

People are inherently information seekers. In today’s high-tech world this tendency can draw us to…



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