Scientific Speed Reading: How to Read 300% Faster in 20 Minutes (Photo: Dustin Diaz) How much more could you get done if you completed all of your required reading in 1/3 or 1/5 the time? Increasing reading speed is a process of controlling fine motor movement—period. This post is a condensed overview of principles I taught to undergraduates at Princeton University in 1998 at a seminar called the “PX Project.” The below was written several years ago, so it’s worded like Ivy Leaguer pompous-ass prose, but the results are substantial. I have never seen the method fail. The PX Project The PX Project, a single 3-hour cognitive experiment, produced an average increase in reading speed of 386%. It was tested with speakers of five languages, and even dyslexics were conditioned to read technical material at more than 3,000 words-per-minute (wpm), or 10 pages per minute. If you understand several basic principles of the human visual system, you can eliminate inefficiencies and increase speed while improving retention. The Protocol First – Determining Baseline
How to Become an Early Riser - StumbleUpon It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom. – Aristotle Are morning people born or made? In my case it was definitely made. In my early 20s, I rarely went to bed before midnight, and I’d almost always sleep in late. I usually didn’t start hitting my stride each day until late afternoon. But after a while I couldn’t ignore the high correlation between success and rising early, even in my own life. … and the next morning, I got up just before noon. Hmmm… I tried again many more times, each time not getting very far with it. It’s hard to become an early riser using the wrong strategy. The most common wrong strategy is this: You assume that if you’re going to get up earlier, you’d better go to bed earlier. It seems there are two main schools of thought about sleep patterns. The second school says you should listen to your body’s needs and go to bed when you’re tired and get up when you naturally wake up.
Can I Learn to Read Faster and Get Through My Backlog of Books? Advice on how to read faster is all good and well, BUT: 1) Why does everything have to happen FASTER FASTER FASTER and why do you think you need to read MORE MORE MORE? It's not about quantity, but about quality. If you read good books, you're not done by the time you get to the last page. You have to think about it later and make sense of it. If you read books that don't require deep thinking like this, then there's no reason for you to want to read even more of these shallow works. 2) Speed reading in any but the most specialised and narrow contexts is completely useless. 3) From a literary perspective, audio books are not at all the same as printed / electronic books, because most writers write to be read, not to be heard, so they write sentences in ways that only appear special to you if you read them.
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Science, Creativity and the Real World Gifted Homeschoolers Forum Science, Creativity and the Real World: Lessons Learned from the U.S. Homeschool Community By Corin Barsily Goodwin and Mika Gustavson, MFT A great deal of concern surrounds the lack of quality in science education in the United States. A simple Google search of “science education in America” brings up link after link on the horrific failure of standards and the many additional problems inherent in the current system of education. Moreover, the need for appropriate education for gifted students is also under attack—as it has been for many years. A 2012 study by the Fordham Institute[1] identifies four main factors for the failure of science standards to produce a flock of achievers: an undermining of evolutionary theory, vague goals, not enough guidance for teachers on how to integrate the history of science and the concept of scientific inquiry into their lessons, and not enough math instruction. ~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi ~William Butler Yeats Science and Homeschooling Conclusion
How to Apologize and say I’m sorry – The Perfect Apology How to apologize? What's the best approach to take? How do I say I'm sorry? These are questions we often ask ourselves when we are in a situation where we have offended or otherwise hurt someone. An effective apology is both a Science and an Art. The Art is in how you apply the Science—how you actually deliver the apology. There are obviously many different ways to apologize, but the ideal approach for your case depends on your answers to three straightforward questions. Who are you apologizing to? How close is your relationship with this person? How strained is your relationship as a result of the mistake? There are two basic ways to deliver apologies. There are many variations in both written and verbal apologies but keep in mind these two key points when thinking about how to apologize. A written apology gives the recipient the time to think about the situation and your apology, before responding. If the relationship is intimate then think about romantic ways to deliver the apology.
What schools need: Vigor instead of rigor - The Answer Sheet This was written by Joanne Yatvin, a veteran public school educator, author and past president of the National Council of Teachers of English. She is now teaching part-time at Portland State University. A version of this was originally published in the Atlanta Journal Constitution. By Joanne Yatvin Though my years in the classroom are long past, at heart I am still a cranky old English teacher who bristles at some of the neologisms that have crept into public language. Even so, I remain politely quiet when others commit such grammatical transgressions. Part of my reaction is emotional, having so often heard “rigor” paired with “mortis.” Now, more than ever, “rigor” is being used to promote the idea that American students need advanced course work, complex texts, stricter grading, and longer school days and years in order to be ready for college or the workplace. Since I believe it is time for a better word and a better concept to drive American education, I recommend “vigor.”
GUARDIAN ANGEL KIDS online ezine for Kids! How did you learn the most difficult thing you ever learned? Some of our students may have used continued practice, trial and error or the aid of a mentor, hands-on tutorial, exploration, discovery, and mapping. Children have many different ways of learning and teachers can channel their students' learning styles. If we look closely, a learning style is an approach or process we use to learn something in terms of our own and students’ most “comfortable” way to learn. Teachers often teach using their preferred learning styles. Learning Styles are Challenging There are different ways of describing learning styles. Receiving Style Examples When putting together a piece of furniture, visual learners look at the instructions, auditory people ask someone to read them the instructions while they follow them and hands-on learners unpack the box using the instructions only if necessary. Evidence of Learning – Processing Styles Linear learners – Put things in order. Getting Started
Conventions of Writing Humanities Papers Professor Celia A. Easton Department of English State University of New York College at Geneseo Read a successful essay on Thucydides written by a student in my Fall 1999 section of Humanities 220. The first thought any writer should give to a paper is not "What am I going to say?" Organization. Introductory pitfalls. Praising the bard. Lab talk. Therapy thesis. Good Starts. In the body. Writing analysis. Creating your own organization. Limiting Description. Using Secondary Sources. When you are required to incorporate secondary sources into your essay, you must make sure that you are not simply writing a report. Using quotations. In The Second Treatise of Government, John Locke claims, " . . . ." Is this clear? Plagiarism. There are also positive reasons to cite sources. Weak conclusions. Sudden stop. Apology. As a famous writer once said. As I've just said. Good endings. Format. Center the title of your paper at the top of the first page of your essay (beneath your name, etc.).
Pourquoi le Mindmapping est-il si efficace pour étudier ? Pourquoi dit-on que le Mindmapping peut aider les étudiants ? Est-ce vraiment si efficace ? Et si oui, pourquoi ? La vue : le sens dominant d’une majorité de personnes Une étude de Linda Kreger Silverman, Docteur en psychologie de l’Université du Colorado, menée sur 750 élèves, a démontré qu’environ 30% d’entre eux utilisaient fortement le canal visuel-spatial, 25 % d’entre eux utilisaient principalement le canal auditif-séquentiel, et 45% utilisent les deux ensemble. Ce qui veut dire que l’enseignement actuel, basé principalement sur les mots, répond vraiment aux besoins de 25% de la population scolaire! Répartition des canaux sensoriels dominants Une méthode qui sollicite tous nos sens ! Le Mindmapping est une des rares méthodes qui réconcilient nos deux hémisphères cérébraux et qui sollicitent autant de sens en même temps : avec sa structure en arbre, ses couleurs, ses images, sa disposition spatiale encourage l’utilisation du canal visuel-spatial. Réconciliez la synthèse et l’analyse
Curse of knowledge The curse of knowledge is a cognitive bias that leads better-informed parties to find it extremely difficult to think about problems from the perspective of lesser-informed parties. The effect was first described in print by the economists Colin Camerer, George Loewenstein and Martin Weber, though they give original credit for suggesting the term to Robin Hogarth.[1] History[edit] While the economists Colin Camerer, George Loewenstein, and Martin Weber were the first to "coin" the term "curse of knowledge" and to describe, and effectively, define this phenomenon, they are self-reportedly not the first individuals to document or study the effect; on the other hand, in their publication they state that: "All the previous evidence of the curse of knowledge has been gathered in psychological studies of individual judgments", referring readers to Baruch Fischhoff's work from 1975, which also involves the hindsight bias.[2] Applications[edit] See also[edit] References[edit]