Another phenomenal crop of links from xthread, including ( Read more... )

Go ahead and learn as fast as you want. Thanks, elfs!

Friend of a friend of a friend posts about her autistic son's "getting it". What joy!

Teacher makes a class with a high plagiarism rate do real research for publication--in their favorite plagiarism source, Wikipedia.

Studies show that providing (or emphasizing) extrinsic reward causes activities to be perceived as less rewarding, and be performed less well. Oops.

Concrete examples don't help students learn math

In fact, they can be a hindrance

Having students gesture about math problems does help

And so does teaching them one approach verbally & a different one through gesture!

How we forget, and the proven method for remembering everything you learn. Especially applicable to learning languages ( Read more... )

Dreams provide useful practice for real life situations...or, at least, for what you're spending a lot of time thinking about, which may or may not be the most useful thing to think about.

Watching baby videos correlates with poorer communicative development.

The last link was from xthread. So are these, with his text:

In a recent editorial about the Mid-East situation, the New York Times mentions recent research from the University of Texas on reciprocity and the fact that human cognitive hardware generally perceives the slights others do to us a damn sight better than we percieve the slights we do to ( Read more... )