Using Diigo in the Classroom - Student Learning with Diigo Diigo is a powerful information capturing, storing, recalling and sharing tool. Here are just a few of the possibilities with Diigo: Save important websites and access them on any computer.Categorize websites by titles, notes, keyword tags, lists and groups.Search through bookmarks to quickly find desired information.Save a screenshot of a website and see how it has changed over time.Annotate websites with highlighting or virtual "sticky notes."View any annotations made by others on any website visited.Share websites with groups or the entire Diigo social network.Comment on the bookmarks of others or solicit comments to your shared bookmarks. To learn more about how Diigo can be used as as information management tool, visit these pages: Diigo has clear advantages to the individual that needs to store and recall important information. Below are just a few options for using Diigo in the classroom. Personal Student Bookmarks Bookmark Lists Extended Learning Professional Development Research
Annie Murphy Paul: Your Morning Routine Is Making You Dull Brrriiinnng. The alarm clock buzzes in another hectic weekday morning. You leap out of bed, rush into the shower, into your clothes and out the door with barely a moment to think. A stressful commute gets your blood pressure climbing. Once at the office, you glance through the newspaper, its array of stories ranging from discouraging to depressing to tragic. With a sigh, you pour yourself a cup of coffee and get down to work, ready to do some creative, original problem solving. Good luck with that. (MORE: Paul: The Myth of ‘Practice Makes Perfect’) As several recent studies highlight, the way most of us spend our mornings is exactly counter to the conditions that neuroscientists and cognitive psychologists tell us promote flexible, open-minded thinking. Your commute filled with honking cars or sharp-elbowed fellow passengers doesn’t help, either. (MORE: Paul: The Bigger Ball Drops Faster — and Other Myths of Physics) (MORE: What If Introverts Ruled the World?)
Learning Technology Learning How Creativity Works in Cities - Arts & Lifestyle The human imagination is a bewildering process. How the brain comes up with great ideas is mysteriously complex. Jonah Lehrer's ambitious new book, Imagine: How Creativity Works, takes a fascinating dive into the world of creativity and how it all works, not to mention devoting a chapter entirely to cities. Lehrer recently took some time to chat with Atlantic Cities and expand on his ideas concerning the nexus of creativity and cities. You title your chapter on cities "Urban Friction"and you go on to talk about the pioneering work of Geoffrey West, Luis Bettencourt, and their colleagues at the Santa Fe Institute on "urban metabolism." I think the basic logic was outlined long ago by one of our mutual heroes, Jane Jacobs. These sidewalk conversations came with real benefits. What’s interesting is that the sheer disorder of the metropolis maximizes the amount of spillover. I see it as resulting from the same basic phenomenon, which is that blending of knowledge into new forms. Absolutely.
How Geniuses Think 109Share Synopsis Thumbnail descriptions of the thinking strategies commonly used by creative geniuses. How do geniuses come up with ideas? What is common to the thinking style that produced "Mona Lisa," as well as the one that spawned the theory of relativity? What characterizes the thinking strategies of the Einsteins, Edisons, daVincis, Darwins, Picassos, Michelangelos, Galileos, Freuds, and Mozarts of history? For years, scholars and researchers have tried to study genius by giving its vital statistics, as if piles of data somehow illuminated genius. Academics also tried to measure the links between intelligence and genius. Genius is not about scoring 1600 on the SATs, mastering fourteen languages at the age of seven, finishing Mensa exercises in record time, having an extraordinarily high I.Q., or even about being smart. Most people of average intelligence, given data or some problem, can figure out the expected conventional response. GENIUSES MAKE THEIR THOUGHTS VISIBLE.
Annie Murphy Paul: The Myth of 'Practice Makes Perfect' How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice, practice. In a groundbreaking paper published in 1993, cognitive psychologist Anders Ericsson added a crucial tweak to that old joke. It’s not a minor change. (MORE: Paul: How Your Dreams Can Make You Smarter) I was reminded of the importance of deliberate practice by a fascinating new book, Guitar Zero: The New Musician and the Science of Learning. “Hundreds of thousands of people took music lessons when they were young and remember little or nothing,” he points out, giving lie to the notion that learning an instrument is easiest when you’re a kid. So how does deliberate practice work? (MORE: Paul: The Power of Smart Listening) It sounds simple, even obvious, but it’s something most of us avoid. The best pianists, they determined, addressed their mistakes immediately. Without deliberate practice, even the most talented individuals will reach a plateau and stay there.
8 Visionaries on How They Spot the Future | Epicenter Paul Saffo A longtime technology forecaster, Saffo is a managing director at the Silicon Valley investment research firm Discern. Formerly the director of the Institute for the Future, he is also a consulting professor in Stanford University’s engineering department. There are four indicators I look for: contradictions, inversions, oddities, and coincidences. The second indicator is an inversion, where you see something that’s out of place. Then there are oddities. Finally, there are coincidences. Illustration: Andrew Zbihlyj; Brant Ward/Corbis Pages: 1 2345678View All The Science of Success - Magazine Most of us have genes that make us as hardy as dandelions: able to take root and survive almost anywhere. A few of us, however, are more like the orchid: fragile and fickle, but capable of blooming spectacularly if given greenhouse care. So holds a provocative new theory of genetics, which asserts that the very genes that give us the most trouble as a species, causing behaviors that are self-destructive and antisocial, also underlie humankind’s phenomenal adaptability and evolutionary success. With a bad environment and poor parenting, orchid children can end up depressed, drug-addicted, or in jail—but with the right environment and good parenting, they can grow up to be society’s most creative, successful, and happy people. Vault49 At the outset of their study, Bakermans-Kranenburg and her colleagues had screened 2,408 children via parental questionnaire, and they were now focusing on the 25 percent rated highest by their parents in externalizing behaviors.
The wrong and right way to learn a foreign language - The Answer Sheet This was written by linguist Stephen Krashen, professor emeritus at the University of Southern California, is an educational researcher and activist. He has written hundreds of articles and books in the fields of second language acquisition, bilingual education, and reading. By Stephen Krashen In a recent issue of the Washington Post Express, Andrew Eil, a staffer who works at the U.S. State Department on international climate change, recommends that foreign language students start with “boot camp:” Study grammar very hard, drill vocabulary every day, and force yourself to talk. This regimen, he claims, put him in a position to develop high levels of competence in several languages; he now speaks Russian and French fluently and can converse in Mandarin and Kazakh. Most of us who have taken foreign languages classes that emphasize heavy grammar instruction and memorizing vocabulary would disagree with his recommendations, and so does the research. Grammar Vocabulary Forced speech Sources:
The Forgetting Pill Erases Painful Memories Forever | Wired Magazine Photo: Dwight Eschliman Jeffrey Mitchell, a volunteer firefighter in the suburbs of Baltimore, came across the accident by chance: A car had smashed into a pickup truck loaded with metal pipes. Mitchell tried to help, but he saw at once that he was too late. The car had rear-ended the truck at high speed, sending a pipe through the windshield and into the chest of the passenger—a young bride returning home from her wedding. There was blood everywhere, staining her white dress crimson. Mitchell couldn’t get the dead woman out of his mind; the tableau was stuck before his eyes. Pushing to remember a traumatic event soon after it occurs doesn’t unburden us—it reinforces the fear and stress. Miraculously, that worked. In recent years, CISD has become exceedingly popular, used by the US Department of Defense, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Israeli army, the United Nations, and the American Red Cross. Mitchell was right about one thing, though. None of this is true.
The Star Wars Saga: Suggested Viewing Order » Absolutely No Machete Juggling Brace yourselves, what follows is an amazingly long blog post about the best order in which to watch Star Wars. First, let me say this: for people that couldn't care less about the prequel trilogy, I suggest Harmy's Despecialized Editions. They are 720p videos that are the result of "Harmy" from The Original Trilogy forums painstakingly reconstructing the theatrical releases of all three films utilizing a wide variety of video sources as well as custom mattes. Downloading, burning, labeling, and printing cases for these films is one of the neckbeardiest things I've done (aside from writing this blog post), and I'm extremely glad I did it. So, with that out of the way, what can you do if you do wish to involve the prequel trilogy? Whatever your reason, if you are showing someone the official editions of Star Wars for the first time, you have to make a decision about which order to watch the films. So neither order really works. What Gets Removed?
Marcel Proust: neurocientífico (entrevista a Jonah Lehrer) Antes de que la neurociencia revelase algunas verdades nada evidentes sobre el funcionamiento de nuestro cerebro, muchos artistas y pensadores intuyeron, cada cual a su manera y en su parcela predilecta de reflexión y expresión, aspectos esenciales de nuestra naturaleza cuyo conocimiento preciso requeriría todavía mucha investigación y experimentación por parte de los científicos. Se anticiparon en la comprensión de funciones cognitivas como la memoria, el lenguaje y el aprendizaje, cuestiones tan trascendentes como la relación cuerpo-mente, la libertad y el sentido del yo, o el funcionamiento íntimo, asociado a sus ilusiones, de los sentidos de la vista, el oído y el gusto. Ha sido un neurocientífico exquisitamente literario quien se ha decidido a señalar a estos precursores en un ensayo que tiende nuevos puentes entre las dos culturas. Jonah ha tenido la amabilidad de respondernos unas preguntas, preparadas por Antonio Gimeno y un servidor. En ingles: 1. 2. Uncertainty is abhorrent. 3. 4. 5.