Delicious LiveJournal Links for 7-15-2009

[andrewducker]

• Extreme Thinking
  How to train yourself to think better
  (tags: intelligence philosophy inspiration selfimprovement thinking education learning science)
• Cinco Games - It's Not Jackie Chan!
  A board game for all the family!
  (tags: funny video spoof)
• James Barnett - Paintings of Video Games
  Fallout 3 and Half Life 2, I think.
  (tags: art gaming videogames aesthetics)
• Bride's bouquet brings down plane
  Right. Crossing that one off the marriage plans
  (tags: wedding marriage EpicFail)
• National Statistics Online -Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings - 2008 Results
  Oooh, the fun.
  (tags: data economics statistics earnings economy money)

Comments

[endless-psych.livejournal.com]

Richard Wisemans new book "59 seconds" is good at taking down some of the common sense self help nonsense. It also has a chapter on some of the techniques that have been shown to work at the end.

This link might be interesting:- http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/deliberations/effective-learning/happen/ (although not perfect - describes a reasonably rigourous qualitative approach to constructing a model. (You can take this as meaning it describes how people think they learn effectively more then how they learn effectively...))

A reasonably good article of computer based learning (or whatever its called now):- http://www.staffs.ac.uk/COSE/cose10/posnan.html

[andrewducker]

Thanks, I'll take a look tonight!