photo credit: Spigoo When we become parents we soon become glassy-eyed, sleep-deprived and the smallest thing amuses us for hours. As parents however, we have just as much to learn from our children as they do from us. If you really watch them and their lives, they actually have some good points that you can […]
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Inc.: The idea for Lingt Language came to MIT seniors Scot Frank and Chris Varenhorst while they were sitting in Chinese class. The students, who were preparing for trips abroad as part of the MIT-China program, found that their professors had little problem teaching the written language but, with 30 to 40 students in a
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Wired: For an all-natural brain boost, skip the pills and hit the colors. In the latest and most authoritative study on color’s cognitive effects, test subjects given attention-demanding tasks did best when primed with the color red. Asked to be creative, they responded best to blue. “Color enhances performance,” said study co-author Juliet Zhu, a
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Jane’s E-Learning Pick of the Day: If one of your new year resolutions was to learn a new language, the BBC has produced a fun and interactive course, which is available for free. It draws you into a web of intrigue dealing with real natives and you can’t help but learn Spanish! You’ll find yourself
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The Sunday Times: Time to buff up your brain, to send your synapses to the spa. How about a couple of hours of sudoku? No? Well, fire up your Nintendo DS and pump up your neurons with Dr Kawashima’s Brain Training games – “Keep your brain sharp and in shape.” “These games definitely work because
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CourierPostOnline.com: In the era of Nintendo’s, Playstations and thousands of computer games, kids are continuing to get lost in a world of fantasy and violence, and experiencing disconnect from their families. One Pennsylvania father decided to do the unthinkable, design and develop an educational board game to make mathematics fun. Flashcar, the brainchild of Matthew
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The Wall Street Journal: Someone’s college major may be a good predictor of whether he or she eventually becomes an entrepreneur. A new working paper by the Small Business Administration’s Office of Advocacy follows the career choices of 1993 college graduates with bachelor’s degrees using data gathered by the U.S. Department of Education, and looks
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