"A study at Temple University found too much information leads people to make stupid mistakes and bad choices due to a drop in activity in the dorsolateral PFC region of the brain. The study also found that “the brain’s emotion regions — previously held in check by the dorsolateral PFC — run as wild as toddlers on a sugar high,” causing anxiety and frustration." 
Our views on the "failure" of higher education may be based on a basic misunderstanding of its essential function. 
We put a lot of energy into improving our memory, intelligence, and attention. There are even drugs that make us sharper, such as Ritalin and caffeine. But maybe smarter isn't really all that better. 
OpenIDEO is a global community that will draw on your optimism, inspiration, ideas and opinions to solve problems together for the collective social good. 
"In the battle for the hearts and minds of students, the front line for educators has changed over the last couple of decades. Rather than the age-old struggle for access, the foremost concern today is one of attention." 
Speak Up—Project Tomorrow’s annual survey of educators, parents, and kids—asked students from kindergarten through 12th grade one simple question: “If you could create the ideal mobile app for learning, what would it look like? 
"The winner of the first major world education prize in Doha praised Saudi Arabia on Wednesday for investing heavily in its educational system, but warned women in particular would need to be given more opportunities to put their learning into practice." "An expert panel today called for creating a massive data network that would combine cutting-edge genomic and molecular data on patients' diseases with their routine medical records. Such a database would be a boon for research and help move medical care into the era of "precision medicine," the panel says." 
Teachers are taking professional development into their own hands with Twitter "edchats." In this post we explain, and interview four hosts of some popular weekly chats. 
Rhett Allain can see physics in everyday life. 
Many students in the U.S. express entrepreneurial interest and intent, but they may lack the experience and education needed to realize these ambitions. 
Two budding scientists will have their experiments carried out on the International Space Station. 
New York's World Maker Faire helped spur a fantastic discussion on innovation in STEM education, highlighting the importance of partnerships that include educational institutions, communities, and ... |
"The National Academies—National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, and National Research Council—are committed to distributing their reports to as wide an audience as possible...PDFs of reports that are currently for sale on the National Academies Press (NAP) Website and PDFs associated with future reports will be offered free of charge to all Web visitors." 
Short-term memory plays a crucial role in how our consciousness operates. Several years ago a hypothesis has been formulated, according to which capacity of short-term memory depends in a special way on two cycles of brain electric activity. 
To facilitate the discussion, discovery and experimentation of creative ideas about how to use mobile technologies to transform educational processes and outcomes, UNESCO, in partnership with Nokia, will launch the First UNESCO Symposium on Mobile Learning from 15 – 16 December 2011 at its headquarters in Paris, France. 
Many states spend much more money on incarceration than they do on higher education... 
Foldit is a revolutionary new computer game enabling you to contribute to important scientific research. This page describes the science behind Foldit and how your playing can help. 
What’s standing in the way of presidents at well funded, iconic institutions making the bold changes needed? Mostly, they would tell you it’s the faculty. But they’d only be partly right. 
The Southern African ICT for Education Summit 201222-23 February 2012, Elephant Hills Resort, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe... 
A team of long-time leaders of the Internet community have come together behind Dan Whaley, one of the forefathers of contemporary search engines, to build a system called Hypothes.is: an "open-source Internet platform to crowdsource peer-review on... A smartphone-powered robot beats the world record of set by Feliks Zemdegs (a human). 
Debate continues to rage over the effectiveness of technology in learning, and how best to measure it. TED Talks John Hunter puts all the problems of the world on a 4'x5' plywood board -- and lets his 4th-graders solve them. 
Over the last 20 years, respected US chef Alice Waters has been instrumental in turning asphalt schoolyards into educational allotments tended by pupils... |
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