Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Dante's Inferno

Thank you to MPHS student - Ben!  A super visual experience to Dante's Inferno. Please share with others.

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

The Teen Brain | Harvard Magazine

“The teenage brain is not just an adult brain with fewer miles on it,” says Frances E. Jensen, a professor of neurology. “It’s a paradoxical time of development. These are people with very sharp brains, but they’re not quite sure what to do with them.”

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Sunday, January 23, 2011

To Really Learn, Quit Studying and Take a Test

“I think that learning is all about retrieving, all about reconstructing our knowledge,” said the lead author, Jeffrey Karpicke, an assistant professor of psychology at Purdue University. “I think that we’re tapping into something fundamental about how the mind works when we talk about retrieval.”