The Brain and Learning

"As we become more immersed in internet advertising, gaming, social media, and the relaying of information in what we now call "infographics" (a one-page presentation of charts, facts and images), we need to spend more time examining visual literacy - understanding how color, lines, angles, camera shots, and the insertion of short bursts of text so profoundly influence our emotions, our decisions and the inferences we make."

"A growing number of researchers are focusing on what is becoming an exciting field of inquiry: boredom studies...

From a scholarly perspective, "boredom is a gold mine," says Mark Fenske, a neuroscientist and researcher at the University of Guelph in Ontario...

Connecting a dull activity (scoring tests, say) to a meaningful purpose (determining scientific results) can help maintain attentiveness. And physical activity, such as going for a walk or even fidgeting and doodling, can keep people engaged, researchers say..."

Every child should be graded on class participation -- and parents don't help their children when they argue otherwise.

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A new study showing that comics help students recall verbatim knowledge is the latest in a growing field of study on how graphic novels can be used to aid in teaching and communication.

A look at the ways that the construction of language can have implications for the way we think, act and parse the world around us.

Differences in the physical connections of the brain are at the root of what make people think and behave differently from one another. Researchers reporting in the Cell Press journal Neuron

Men's Brains are made of little boxes. Women's brains are like wires. Mark Gungor.