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Digital readers crave excitment
She cites cognitive scientist Daniel T. Willingham, author of The Reading Mind: A Cognitive Approach to Understanding How the Mind Reads...
Joanne Jacobs
Aug 22, 20182 min read
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Zen and the art of school dioramas
In the middle of an “Ask Polly” column on dating, Heather Havrilesky unleashed her hatred of “the never-ending scourage of dioramas . . ....
Joanne Jacobs
Nov 11, 20171 min read
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Parents don’t see value of kids’ play
Parents value structured activities over free play, according to a Gallup survey, “despite research associating unstructured, child-led...
Joanne Jacobs
Oct 17, 20172 min read
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Internet isn’t rotting kids’ brains
The Internet isn’t changing kids’ brains, writes cognitive scientist Daniel T. Willingham in an excerpt from The Reading Mind on...
Joanne Jacobs
Jun 20, 20171 min read
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