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Your brain is not putting its best foot forward when reading text.
By analysing brain activity, researchers found that the brain regulates its resource use and tries to identify the most essential information.A recently completed study indicates that the human brain avoids taking unnecessary effort. When a person is reading, she strives to gain as much information as possible by dedicating as little of her cognitive capacity…
🙋‍♂️ Summer Links Only Special – Of bits and bytes for July 22, 2024
Internet Travels Of bits and bytes is my weekly round up of interesting links and ideas I discovered on the internet. It is published on Mondays for the previous week With it being summer and me not wanting to get burned out, for June and July the Of Bits and Bytes newsletter will be links…
Using edtech not to measure, but to make students better
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