Posts Tagged ‘creative thinking’
In the Age of Google, Should Schools Teach Memorization Skills?
As school is about to resume, people are reminded of their strong opinions about how to fix schools: more funding, better teachers, less government interference, more government interference, etc. But the one obvious, and never-stated problem, is that students don’t remember what they are taught. In spite of all the “teaching to the test” that…
Read MoreEnhance Metacognition and Problem-Solving by Talking Out Loud to Yourself
The MC at the University of Michigan’s reunion dinner encouraged audience members to reveal the most significant take-away from their undergraduate nursing education. The greatest benefit was quickly clear to me — problem-solving thinking. Memory produced a mind video: a short, dark-haired, nursing instructor lecturing a small group of first year students in an empty…
Read MoreStudy: Contrasting Brain Growth in Baby Humans and Baby Chimpanzees
Charting Brain Growth in Humans and Chimps (New York Times): — “Although baby humans and baby chimpanzees both start out with undeveloped forebrains, a new study reports that the human brain increases in volume much more rapidly early on.” — “The growth is in a region of the brain known as the prefrontal cortex and is part…
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