Sat.Mar 10, 2012 - Fri.Mar 16, 2012

Productivity Bits

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How Far Are You Willing To Go To Get Your Brain Work Better

Productivity Bits

$99 can get you the chance of increasing your “learning rates.” But are you willing to spend that if it involves sending your brain “increased amount of electrical current”? The DIY Kit, Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS), as described in a BGR report , is “a safe and effective means of increasing cognitive performance.” The way I understand it is it stimulates some part of your brain which then somehow increases neuronal excitability.

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The Future Of Education Is Online

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How to teach kids more effectively? The school environment is the most important portion of that. There is no doubt about it. There is an urgency that school children need to learn more math and science. That is specially true here in the US. What if the parents can utilize a cool tool to augment their kids’ learning? What if the hardest part of this tool is convincing kids to sit down and watch videos (I guess, that is not hard at all)?

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