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Alison Gopnik TED talk

Follow up to Kris’s recent post on Alison Gopnik, child development psychologist, philosopher, author, and frequent media guest, who teaches at Cal Berkeley: a TED talk by her which has been viewed 2.5M times, so far. “Babies and young children are like...

Social media in online learning

Gilly Salmon shares new research regarding her Carpe Diem MOOC.  The Carpe Diem MOOC provides a formal online learning tool, Blackboard as well as the use of Twitter and FaceBook for networking and improved learning experience. In this paper, we explore the benefits...

video conferencing research with babies

Happily, in this article I learned that I can throw a kiss to my grandson on FaceTime and he can interact with me using the technology.  It works best if the adult on the other end catches the kiss and plants it on the child’s head.   Apparently, researchers...

T3YBC “How we learn” new book out

There’s research being done on “how the human learns”, and a new book coming out on that subject is discussed here by story at NPR. We have the book on order with Amazon for when it’s published in a couple weeks from today. Here’s the...