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Can Handwriting Make You Smarter? | Wall Street Journal | April 2016 Students who take notes by hand outperform students who type, and more type these days, new studies show.

Minasuk/ September 14, 2015/ Uncategorized

The art of slow reading | The Guardian | July 2010 Has endlessly skimming short texts on the internet made us stupider? An increasing number of experts think so – and say it’s time to slow down . . .

Minasuk/ August 15, 2015/ Uncategorized

Why you should take notes by hand — not on a laptop | Vox | March 2015 “Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer, the psychologists who conducted the new research, believe it’s because students on laptops usually just mindlessly type everything a professor says. Those taking notes by hand, though, have to actively listen and decide what’s important — because they

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Minasuk/ August 9, 2015/ Uncategorized

The Case for Banning Laptops in the Classroom | New Yorker | June 2014 A wealth of studies on students’ use of computers in the classroom supports the notion of banning them.

Minasuk/ October 14, 2014/ Uncategorized

Google makes us all dumber: The neuroscience of search engines | Salon | October 2014 As search engines get better, we become lazier. We’re hooked on easy answers and undervalue asking good questions. “Google is known as a search engine, yet there is barely any searching involved anymore. The gap between a question crystallizing in your mind and an answer

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Minasuk/ September 28, 2014/ Uncategorized

How to Stop Time | New York Times | September 2014 “But if procrastination is so clearly a society-wide, public condition, why is it always framed as an individual, personal deficiency? Why do we assume our own temperaments and habits are at fault — and feel bad about them — rather than question our culture’s canonization of productivity?”

Minasuk/ September 27, 2014/ Uncategorized

How clutter affects you (and what you can do about it) | Crew | July 2013 On pain: “Your brain views the loss of one of your valued possessions as the same as something that causes you physical pain.” On tactility: “[T]he longer you touch an object, the greater the value you assign to it.” On stress: “Similar to what

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Minasuk/ September 21, 2014/ Uncategorized

Your paper brain and your Kindle brain aren’t the same thing | PRI | September 2014 If you’ve given up on reading paper books for the ease of your e-reader’s screen, you may want to step back a bit. Neuroscience confirms that our brains use different areas to read on paper and screens, and you need to exercise both.