(for the first Science of Learning post that deals with Brain Rules, see Imagine a future with no homework.)
Rule #7 in Brain Rules (a fascinating science book by John Medina) bears the title “Sleep well, think well.” The first principle involved in rule #7 is this:
“When we’re asleep, the brain is not resting at all. [...]
Only a quarter of Americans have a college degree. What if that proportion was flipped … how different would things be if 3 out of 4 people had graduated college?
Vastly different.
In his speech to a joint session of congress last night, President Obama said that 75% of the fastest-growing jobs in the United States [...]
by Kate
“Life is hard”
A favorite saying of my father. Boy, was he right. Every day it seems we’re buried under a barrage of demands that threaten to overwhelm: bills to pay, school deadlines, and all the little things that pile up and cry out for our full attention. Add all that up and you’ve got [...]
Impossible! you say. But is homework is a necessary evil, or necessary only because schools don’t do their jobs? If in-school teaching of new information used the principles science is revealing about the ways the human mind learns, might homework turn out to be redundant?
This is one of many questions John Medina [...]
