Life Quote
"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does." - William James
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Education News
MIT Game Changer: Free Online Education for All
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) announced that they intend to launch an online learning initiative called M.I.T.x,which will offer the online teaching of M.I.T. courses free of charge to anyone in the world. Read more.
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Learning & Thinking
Write This Down
Note-Taking Strategies and Study Skills for Academic Success.
More on learning at http://conciselearning.com/stopstudying.html.
Skills of Success
Paying Attention to Distraction
It’s not just social commentators and productivity consultants and authors who are attentive to distraction. So are neuroscientists, as they try to figure out how the brain focuses on one thing and not another, how it shifts that focus, how it remembers enough to create what we call concentration. The command that so many of us silently issue in our minds—all right, all right, all right, just pay attention—embodies a world of complications. Read more.
More on skills of success at http://conciselearning.com/successskills.html.
Visual Mapping & Mind Mapping
Generation Y and Mind Mapping
Mind maps seem to be a perfect fit for this brave young generation, who aren’t intimidated by non-linear information structures and “playing” with them to see what happens. Read more.
More on visual mapping at http://conciselearning.com/visualmapping.html. More on mind mapping at http://conciselearning.com/mindmapping.html.
Technology & eLearning
Apple Unveils iBooks 2, iBooks Author, iTunes U
Apple’s newest offering looks to transform the digital textbook and authorship market to aid students, teachers and publishers. Read more.
More on technology at http://pear.ly/l2iX.
Recommended Reading
I See What You Mean by Steve Moline
It's essential that we explicitly teach kids how visual information works—how to comprehend it and how to communicate with it. I See What You Mean is a practical guide to incorporating visual literacy (maps, diagrams, tables, graphs, and charts) throughout the K-8 curriculum. Read more.
More book recommendations at http://astore.amazon.com/conciselearning-20.
Featured Video
Universal Design for Learning [4:37]
Universal Design for Learning is a set of principles for curriculum development that give all individuals equal opportunities to learn. See video.
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Tweets You Can Use
Stanford May Revamp Undergraduate Education: http://t.co/bVmnlor4
How to make a perfect mind map: http://j.mp/zoEhYk
It's completely up to you: http://t.co/HmmLPYuM
3 Ways To Keep Students Focused Amid All The Gadgets: http://edudemic.com/2012/01/keeping-kids-focused/
Visual thinking resources: http://j.mp/zFbLJP
How to Sleep Better in 2012: http://j.mp/y0pWRY
Visual note-taking for people who think they can’t draw: http://j.mp/yZNpZ1
What is the business impact of mind mapping software? Greater than you may think (infographic): http://ht.ly/8DjGr
Teachers take to Twitter to improve craft, commiserate: http://t.co/aURe4djW
Ten Tips for Personalized Learning via Technology http://soc.li/sY5EbnO
11 Factors That Determine Your Success in School: http://j.mp/zEYqE2
Eight steps will help unlock your kids' academic potential: http://ti.me/xKAAwS
Goodbye Dominik, we’ll miss you! http://t.co/e0MaBPY8
Summarize web pages and document with web summarizer: http://184.154.67.138/Test
Become a better writer with mind maps: http://j.mp/wlHLtQ
Why m-learning changed my life: http://j.mp/z8J95k
Dear Student: I Don't Lie Awake At Night Thinking of Ways to Ruin Your Life: http://j.mp/yPGIIF
The first thing you do when you sit down at the computer: http://t.co/R9qYRnYw
We are losing our ability to think: http://j.mp/zPdUfS
Using mind maps to develop ideas in the classroom: http://j.mp/y1mQTd
More tweets at http://www.twitter.com/conciselearning.
Announcements
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Ron's Toon
Where's the snow?!
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About Me
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