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Consider the Squirrel…
If you have a chance, I highly recommend reading The Distracted Mind — especially if you’ll be…
Action Video Games Harm the Hippocampus, Right?
Here’s a headline to get your attention: Action video games decrease gray matter, study finds….
The Neural Effects of Media Multitasking
If you’re attending Learning and the Brain’s “Merging Minds and Technology” Conference in November, you’re…
Online K-12 Schools
The upcoming Learning and the Brain Conference (Boston, November) will focus on “Merging Minds and…
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…
Video Games and Empathy
Do violent video games reduce empathy? If people spend lots of time pretending to beat…
What He Said
In recent weeks, this blog has written about the dangerous assumption that students can just…
Classroom Data to Enhance STEM Teaching
Regular readers of this blog remember Scott MacClintic’s post about “data informed instruction”; quoting W….
Once Upon a Digital Time…
A recent study suggests that 3- and 4-year old children understand as much, and learn…
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…