Eight Tips To Understand and Remember What You Read — Especially As You Read Nonfiction

___ Despite Insta­gram, YouTube, Face­book, Twit­ter, and tele­vi­sion, (or per­haps pre­cise­ly because of all of them) tra­di­tion­al read­ing is still an impor­tant skill. Whether it is mag­a­zines, pro­fes­sion­al man­u­als or fas­ci­nat­ing books, peo­ple still need to read, now and in years ahead. And much of it is non­fic­tion mate­r­i­al, where it’s impor­tant to real­ly understand…

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Update: Is Having a Brain a Medical Condition?

Time for Sharp­Brains’ August 2012 eNewslet­ter, fea­tur­ing in this occa­sion mul­ti­ple insight­ful per­spec­tives on how emerg­ing brain and cog­ni­tive sci­ence can be applied to  improve edu­ca­tion, clin­i­cal prac­tice, pro­duc­tiv­i­ty and dai­ly liv­ing. Fea­tured Per­spec­tives: Does Brain Fit­ness Require Med­ical­iza­tion? (or, Is Hav­ing a Brain a Med­ical Con­di­tion?), by Dr. Philip Toman New Study shows Teens with…

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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…

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