Q&A: John Seely Brown on Interest-Driven Learning, Mentors and the Importance of Play | Spotlight on Digital Media and Learning

Q&A: John Seely Brown on Interest-Driven Learning, Mentors and the Importance of Play | Spotlight on Digital Media and Learning:

“Seely Brown is renowned for his pioneering work at Xerox PARC and work on interplay between organizations, technology and people. He is currently the co-chair of the Deloitte Center for Edge Innovation and a senior fellow at the Annenberg Center for Communication at University of Southern California. His latest book (with Douglas Thomas) is “A New Culture of Learning: Cultivating the Imagination for a World of Constant Change.””

The Medium Is the Medium – NYTimes.com

 

Op-Ed Columnist – The Medium Is the Medium – NYTimes.com: “Recently, book publishers got some good news. Researchers gave 852 disadvantaged students 12 books (of their own choosing) to take home at the end of the school year. They did this for three successive years.

Then the researchers, led by Richard Allington of the University of Tennessee, looked at those students’ test scores. They found that the students who brought the books home had significantly higher reading scores than other students. These”

 

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Next Big Thing – Literary Scholars Turn to Science – NYTimes.com

Next Big Thing – Literary Scholars Turn to Science – NYTimes.com: “Next Big Thing in English: Knowing They Know That You Know “

“…This layered process of figuring out what someone else is thinking €” of mind reading €” is both a common literary device and an essential survival skill. Why human beings are equipped with this capacity and what particular brain functions enable them to do it are questions that have occupied primarily cognitive psychologists.”