Tag: Cognitive Stuff
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More Spore
Again, this is one of those few articles that I jumped the NYT login hoops to get. Bill found the article and pointed out one passage, but I have a different one that I think is telling – not so much about the game, but in terms of how we may want to look at…
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Bloggers may be better writers
While it may be that people who blog, or do any kind of writing on a regular basis, regardless of medium, will be better writers than those who don’t, Cog Daily has an interesting study. I think this helps support what I posted about earlier where self motivated writing is important.
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Multitasking
The Washington Post published an article today about how there is a cost associated with multitasking, this supports many other studies (Psychological Science, Association for Psychological Science via Science Daily) have already said. But this brings me to wonder about game based learning and multiple encoding. Yes, there is a cost to mutitasking, but obviously…
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Tipping Point and Stickiness
I’ve been reading Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell and am currently going through a section on what he calls “stickiness”. The elements that make a message stick, and as an example he used Sesame Street and Blue’s Clues. Up to the point that I’m in right now, I think it’s a great chapter for all…
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SimSchool
I’m prepping a presentation on SimSchool that I’ll be giving tomorrow and as impressed as I was with it at SITE 2006, I’m more so now that I’m starting to work with it a little more, it is becoming even more impressive in what it can do to help get those sticky classroom situations under…