President Obama, during the SOTU and Digital Learning Day, introduced two specific education topics—raising the drop out age to 18, and replacing printed textbooks with digital ones. Two articles below explain the issues. How does the data gathered on your child in school get used to assist learning? Consider if what’s planned would be helpful or limiting. Popular neuroscientist, Alison Gopnik, sheds light on the mysteries of the teen brain. Stanford released a study on multi-tasking that’s worth understanding. Ever wonder how you would score on the SAT today? Look in Resources below.
Parenting
Mom’s Love Good for Child’s Brain - Jim Dryden, Neuroscienc News
Why Are Parents So Scared? Ask the “Culture of Fear” Guy - Lenore Skenazy, Free Range Kids
How Schools Are Using Data About You - Tina Barseghian, Mind/Shift
Teens Leaving Facebook for Twitter, Here’s Why - Derik Baird, Barking Robot
Learning
Neuroscience Can Explain What’s Wrong With the Teenage Mind - Alison Gopnik, WSJ
How Media Multi-Taskers Pay a Cognitive Price - Adam Gorlick, Stanford News
Everything You Thought You Knew About Learning Is Wrong - Garth Sundem, GeekDad
Education
Obama Administration Says Lighten That Backpack - Associated Press
Obama Wants to Raise the Dropout Age - Tamar Lewin, New York Times
Can Computers Replace Teachers? - Andrew Rotherham, Time
What Can America Learn From the World’s Most Successful Ed Systems? - Dan Rather, Good
The Hypothesis of Test Scores, Is It Correct? - Michael Petrilli, Huff Post Education
Resources
10 Best Nature Apps for the iPad - Colm Barker, Smatoos
10 Tech Skills Every Student Should Have - David Andrade, Educational Technology Guy
Testive: Reliably Predict Your SAT Score with 15 Questions - Testive.com
