Uta Firth wants knowledge of the brain to inform education the way knowledge of the body informs medicine.
In Chapter 3, ‘Tools of the mind’, after a potted history of maps (not cartography) and clocks (not horology), we get an equally potty view of the plastic mind and neuroscience. Carr is no neuroscientist – three decades ago he…
How to use e-portfolios for retention and assessment of online students – that or they use a blog
This fascinates me. When I started blogging in 1999 I called the blog ‘The Contents of My Brain’ as for a couple of years I’d been using an early version of Filemaker Pro offline (in Clarisworks) to assemble/catalogue everything I…
My love of English received an adrenalin boost with the OU’s iTunes ‘History of English in 10 Minutes’.
Ten bite-sized comedic dashes through the history of English – just a minute each time!