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The Internet Goes to School
Even with many tech stocks in the tank, our lives increasingly involve the Internet. This is likely as true for kids as it is for professionals. Anyone who’s seen a youth using a computer knows that...
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A Teacher’s Sense of Humor
When asked to list qualities they want in a teacher, students tend to give high ratings to a sense of humor and fairness—but they typically find it difficult to define these qualities. It seems a...
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The Dreaming Brain
From a subjective viewpoint, it can be difficult to believe that dreams have any deep meaning. One of my most memorable dreams involved the actor Tom Selleck, a sea monster and a talking duck. If this...
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A Marriage of Art and Learning: An Interview with James Catterall
Dr. James Catterall, professor at UCLA’s Graduate School of Education, says that his academic career has taken him down three main paths over the last few decades. The first was the examination of the...
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Fading Memories
Folks tend to worry about memory loss. Our worry escalates when we do such things as lose keys, forget names when making introductions, or remember the principal item that sparked the shopping trip...
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Understanding Today’s Attention Deficit Child
Just What is Attention Deficit and Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD)? The common symptoms of ADHD, which has replaced ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder) as the medical term of choice, are what Hinshaw called...
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Our Continuous Search for Fairness
The intense furor surrounding the ballot count in the recent presidential election underscores the importance of trust and fairness in human life. We became an interdependent social species because (1)...
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We Have Two Brain Systems!
We constantly confront dangers and opportunities related to our need to survive and reproduce. Many folks believe that our brain processes all the recognition and response functions that are required...
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How the Brain Learns a Second Language
Whether or not we agree philosophically with the concept of a “national language,” English is clearly the dominant language in the United States. As such, knowledge of English is an important component...
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Is Proficiency Testing Assessing the Real Thing?
Christy Bosch, curriculum coordinator at Ohio’s Logan-Hocking School District, is in charge of creating a course of study that will not only best educate the students of that district, but will also...
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Playing the Piano Might Make You Smarter
We’ve seen no small amount of hoopla over the suggestion, first made in the journal Nature in 1993, that listening to Mozart might improve spatial-temporal reasoning abilities. This news set off a...
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A Conversation With Robert Sapolsky
I first met Robert Sapolsky years ago at a research conference. My first impression was that he was quiet… too quiet. In a crowded hotel lobby with hundreds of scientists busily jabbering about...
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Reading Gets a C+
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is a national exam often used by educators, politicians, and parents to decide how well the nation’s schoolchildren are learning their three R’s....
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Sleeping In: Teens’ Circadian Clocks Keep Their Own Time. Should Schools Adapt?
“There are always some students who can’t get the motor running,” says Gregory Downs, an instructor at DePaul University and former high school teacher. “Some of them have been up until one in the...
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Take Two: Lessons Learned from Twins Research
Few scenarios have seemed more promising for the unraveling of human mystery than the research pot of gold that many believe identical twins to be. Unlike the rest of the actual, messy human world,...
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Human Scale, Curiosity, and Technological Extensions: Part 2
Last month’s column described a dilemma that our curious brain currently confronts. We’ve created wonderful technologies that have now taken us far beyond our biological limitations. For example, U.S....
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Brainy Figuring
In pondering the possible relations between inventive thought in mathematics and bodily phenomena, the mathematician Jacques Hadamard (1865-1963) sounded a note of despair in his 1945 book The...
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Afraid to Leave Mom: Separation Anxiety in Children
Many children eagerly enter their first classroom excited and a little nervous. It is perfectly natural, after all, to feel jittery when confronting something so new as school. But some children come...
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Human Scale, Curiosity, and Technological Extensions: Part 1
We necessarily function at a human ability scale when we assess the magnitude of challenges we confront. For example, we can recognize up to four objects at a glance. We have an auditory range of about...
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No Learning without Peace
In the relatively short time since the massacre at Columbine High School in April 1999, the incident has grown to embody the need for educational and gun-control reform in the United States. But it has...
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