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Elaborate Classroom Displays ‘Harm Children’s Education’
The Telegraph: Teachers should consider taking down over-elaborate classroom displays amid concerns maps, artwork and photographs damage children’s education, according to research. Researchers said highly-decorated walls in primary schools undermined pupils’ ability to concentrate during lessons
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Find a Purpose, Set Goals and You’ll Live Longer, Canadian Study Finds
National Post: It takes about 14 years for a child to go through grade school, hit puberty, and be at the cusp of an inescapable question: “What are you going to do with your life?”
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Taking Notes? Bring a Pen, Skip the Computer
The Boston Globe: Just about every professor has complained about students with screens in front of them flitting over to Facebook or Tumblr instead of listening to a lecture. But, those distractions aside, it’s hard
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Here’s a New Way to Waste Time: Pre-crastinate
New York Magazine: Introducing a newly discovered way to waste time: “Pre-crastinating,” the inverse of procrastinating. If procrastination is putting things off, pre-crastination is “the tendency to complete, or at least begin, tasks as soon as
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Overexposed? Camera Phones Could Be Washing Out Our Memories
NPR: Los Angeles blogger Rebecca Woolf uses her blog, Girl’s Gone Child, as a window into her family’s life. Naturally, it includes oodles of pictures of her four children. She says she’s probably taken tens of thousands
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Speed-Reading Reborn for Smartphones, Smartwatches
Scientific American: Speed-reading is either a productivity enhancer or a gimmick that lets people gobble up content without really understanding or retaining what they’ve read. This debate—dating back to the late 1950s—resurfaced recently when Samsung