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Re: How Identical Twins Develop Different Personalities

By on May 16, 2013 in I AM LEARNED, Learning, Other Words for Learning, Uncategorized

Why are you who you are? Re: “How Identical Twins Develop Different Personalities”

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State of the Union: The Case Behind Obama’s Call for National Pre-K

By on February 13, 2013 in Capital Value Case, Challenge of Change, Healthy Learning, I AM LEARNED, Mission of Education

The science and economics behind #POTUS #SOTU call for National #PREK – @ezraklein analysis and #COTC resources

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Is Wealth Inequality A Matter of Choice?

By on July 4, 2012 in Capital Value Case, Comments on other sites, I AM LEARNED, Self-Esteem

The attribution of choice lies at the heart of virtually all forms of social inequality and what might also be called “self-inequality”. How we hold ourselves responsible for our choices forms much of the basis for how proud or ashamed of ourselves we are. How we hold others responsible for their choices forms much of the basis of our judgements about them. After all, if we believe that ‘success’ is the product of individual choice then so to is ‘failure’.

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IQ Learning

By on June 28, 2012 in Artificial Learning, Brain Science, Children of the Code, I AM LEARNED, Learning

Working Memory: IQ is not fixed. For better and worse, learning changes IQ. Because intelligence both shapes and is shaped by learning our conversation about the plasticity of IQ is another case in point for: “I” become the “me” I learn to be.

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Re: Wiring the brain, through experience

By on June 18, 2012 in Brain Science, Comments on other sites, I AM LEARNED, Learning

In response to a Harvard University release summarized by Brain Mysteries: Re: Wiring the brain, through experience Whether our brain’s ‘wiring’ starts minimal and extends through learning or starts maximal and is pruned by learning is less important to our common understanding than ‘getting’ that (to a profoundly significantly degree) our brain’s wiring is learned.   

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Re: Study finds twist to the story of the number line (of math’s innate foundations)

By on May 2, 2012 in I AM LEARNED, Learning

From “Brain Mysteries” 5-2-2012: Tape measures. Rulers. Graphs. The gas gauge in your car, and the icon on your favorite digital device showing battery power. The number line and its cousins – notations that map numbers onto space and often represent magnitude – are everywhere. Most adults in industrialized societies are so fluent at using [...]

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Re: The Bilingual Brain Is Sharper and More Focused, Study Says

By on May 1, 2012 in Brain Science, Comments on other sites, I AM LEARNED, Learning

More great evidence for the vastly under appreciated role of learning in brain health and development – another example that not only do “I” learn, “I am learned” – we become who we learn to become.  Highly recommended reading. Wall Street Journal: 4-30-2012 The Bilingual Brain Is Sharper and More Focused, Study Says  

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Re: Changes in monkeys’ social status affect their genes

By on April 20, 2012 in Brain Science, Comments on other sites, I AM LEARNED, Learning, Other Words for Learning

From Brain Mysteries 4-20-12: “We’re seeing that there are a lot of effects of social status on genes, including our own, but we are also seeing that many of the changes aren’t permanent …” Tung said [ lead author Jenny Tung, a visiting assistant professor in Duke University's evolutionary anthropology department]. This study is “just the tip of [...]

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