A lot of interesting and relevant links on neuroanthropology this week, including, Christian Jarrett, Power Leads Us to Dehumanize OthersJohn Lehrer, How Much Should We Practice?Practice 50% less by “combining periods of task performance with periods of additional stimulus exposure.”Greg Hickok, More...
Teaching 2030: an important book on teaching by teachers
this is slightly modified from the original which appeared at Education ReviewBerry, Barnett, and the Teacher Solutions Team (2011). Teaching 2030: What We Must Do for Our Students and Our Public Schools — Now and in the Future.In all of the public discourse of what we need to do to fix public schools...
The problem with NBC's Education Nation - where are the voices of parents and teachers?
cross-posted from Daily KosBeginning Sunday, Sept. 26, NBC will be broadcasting a national "Summit" on education, which it has titled Education Nation. There will be panel discussions, an exhibit hall, and it will begin with an electronic town hall with Brian Williams, broadcast live at 12 Noon EDT...
What Would Happen if Schools Dealt with All the Non Pedagogical Issues?
Most of you have probably seen the (not so) new information on how exercise helps kids learn. What would happen if you took some low-income schools, and without doing anything about pedagogy, did the following:-increased the amount of PE-reduced class size to 16-gave vitamins-provided nutritious food-fed...
23 Things they don’t tell you about Capitalism
The table of contents from a book coming out in the US in January (available now in the UK). I haven't read it, but I thought this was a pretty interesting conversation starter by itself, perhaps useful for courses. Via real-world economics blog23 Things they don’t tell you about CapitalismThing...