It’s interesting to see Wired University’s view of essential learning. One quick perusal of their “7 Essential Skills” shows that BCC’s Core Competencies are aligned with what new professionals need […]
It seems that Infographics are sprouting like proverbial fungi around the Internet lately. COMMENTS PLEASE: How have you used, or could you see using, infographics in the classroom? The godfather […]
This is an excellent, in-depth article that explores some studies comparing TV watching and interactive computing time among high school students. It profiles a high school student who struggles to […]
The New England Faculty Development Consortium Exchange, Spring 2010, includes a great list of readings about the Human Mind, put together by G. Christian Jernstedt: humanmind
More on the brain, multitasking, and dopamine. Your Brain on Computers – Attached to Technology and Paying a Price – NYTimes.com.
BCC Nursing Instructor Mary A. has challenged her Nutrition students to make a prediction: what will an unwrapped, unrefrigerated twinkie look like at the end of the semester? What’s YOUR […]
Some of the Quicktime videos and fonts did not come out quite like the original, but there is a lot of useful information here for review of the Summer Institute […]
Thank you, everyone who attended “Igniting Learning: Brain-Based Strategies for Student Success” last week. The evaluation summary is below, with your comments: SI2010eval
Jonah Lehrer’s blog on emerging cognitive research is just amazing. So much of this has to do with learning, our students, ourselves, and human behavior: http://scienceblogs.com/cortex/
