Kia Ora ladies and gentlegeeks,<\/p>\n
Many links to share, today, and school bus soon to arrive.\u00a0 So let’s GO …<\/p>\n
First up, Scientific American wonders if it is possible to quantify awe<\/a>.\u00a0 Well, is it?\u00a0 If so, you might give this site “a lazy girl goes green”<\/a> a passing grade for awesomeness.<\/p>\n This is an abstract to a piece of research dealing with the fine line between advertising and content in apps designed for children<\/a>, and here you will find a write up of that research<\/a> by the Washington Post.<\/p>\n This is a toolkit for educator and student privacy<\/a>\u00a0from the Children’s Screen Time Action Network (specifically their “Badass Teacher” subset) and speaking of teachers, this is a piece about how many of them are observing poor fine motor skills <\/a>\u00a0in school starters.\u00a0 Perhaps they ought to become craftivists?\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n Here is a piece about early childhood education here in NZ,<\/a> written by a visiting ECE teacher from the US, and (poor segue, but hey!) speaking of early, this is an article about the toll that early exposure to cortisol<\/a> takes on our thinking abilities, and here is one of my fave dudes Dr Bruce Perry talking about such things on the telly.<\/a>\u00a0 Speaking of trauma, this is an article about the ways that such things interfere with formal learning<\/a>.<\/p>\n You have GOT to read these two articles about the tech execs in Silicon Valley who are now becoming parents themselves … guess what decisions they make for their own kids<\/a>?\u00a0 (“I am convinced the devil lives in our phones”).\u00a0 And read the second\u00a0article from the NY times HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n A couple of nerdy links for the students among us (whoop!\u00a0 whoop!) this one is about statistical procedures <\/a>\u00a0and p-values\u00a0(still learnin’) and this is a glorious method for organising notes<\/a>, from the awesome (quantifiably so!) Thesis Whisperer<\/a> website.<\/p>\n This is a link to the work of an artist<\/a>\u00a0named Ulla-Stina Wikander\u00a0which I think is just bloody gorgeous, here is a pretty website about house plants<\/a>, and this is an item I covet<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kia Ora ladies and gentlegeeks, Many links to share, today, and school bus soon to arrive.\u00a0 So let’s GO … First up, Scientific American wonders if it is possible to quantify awe.\u00a0 Well, is it?\u00a0 If so, you might give … Continue reading