Editor’s note: A three-year project with 400 eight to 10-year olds found that using interactive “smart” desks can have benefits over doing maths on paper, and that pupils are able to improve their fluency and flexibility in maths by working together.
Editor’s note: If managers in part hold the key to the development of their teams then they themselves need to be happy and productive in their roles.
Editor’s note: Research into the use of Pinterest and social curation and how that relates to digital libraries. The research sheds light on how users use Pinterest.
Editor’s note: When neuroscience meets rapping we find out how the brain ‘behaves’ to enable rappers to create freestyle raps. An interesting look into the world of spontaneous creative behaviour. Thanks to Mike Collins for sharing this link.
Editor’s note: A cautionary tale from the education sector in which technology is failing to drive innovation because schools don’t properly understand how to realise the potential of the technology.
Editor’s note: Maybe a slightly overstated headline but worthy of attention as iPads in particular are good for helping the visually impaired to be able to read text.
Editor’s note: Insights into the shift from Flash to HTML5 – mobile being the big driving force.
Editor’s note: Fascinating interview featuring Judd Antin a social psychologist and user experience researcher at Facebook.
Editor’s note: Findings from the Towers Watson 2012 Global Workforce Study of 32,000 employees across 30 countries.
Editor’s note: For the first time, the dynamics of how Facebook user communities are formed have been identified, revealing surprisingly few large communities and innumerable highly connected small-size communities . . .
Editor’s note: Analyst IDC has released research that shows collaboration software is one of the fast growing areas of application software.
Editor’s note: Eduardo Salas, a professor of organizational psychology at the University of Central Florida, has studied corporate training programs for more than two decades. What happens before and after a training session, he says, is just as important as the actual instruction itself.
Editor’s note: No surprises here but what are organisations to do when colleagues are learning to and from work and when they are ‘out of office hours’?
Editor’s note: research lifts the lid on our unconscious bias and how it can affect the way we relate people even if we consciously don’t feel the same way. Includes a look at how organisations are creating learning interventions around this subject.
Editor’s notes: Research shows for the first time that we have a built-in neural constraint on our ability to be both empathetic and analytic at the same time. Implications on learning styles?