Having ‘Intense Interests’ Fuels Cognitive Growth (In Elementary School)
CNN
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12/12/17
"A 2008 study found that sustained intense interests, particularly in a conceptual domain like dinosaurs, can help children develop increased knowledge and persistence, a better attention span, and deeper information-processing skills.”
A Helpful Historical Look At ‘Active Learning’
Long View On Education
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12/10/17
"But as Kate Lacey notes, active/passive does not work as a simple binary, but as a fractal distinction, where what counts as ‘active’ shifts with context: listening is active in contrast to hearing, but listening counts as passive in relation to speaking, and both listening and speaking count as passive in relation to movement.”