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So Much to Read, So Little Time: How Do We Read, and Can Speed Reading Help?

Keith Rayner1†, Elizabeth R. Schotter1, Michael E. J. Masson2,
Mary C. Potter3, and Rebecca Treiman4
1
Department of Psychology, University of California, San Diego; 2
Department of Psychology, University
of Victoria; 3
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and 4
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis

The way to maintain high comprehension
and get through text faster is to practice reading and to become a more skilled language user (e.g., through increased
vocabulary). This is because language skill is at the heart of reading speed.

How to Teach a Cyborg – The Atlantic

Källa: How to Teach a Cyborg – The Atlantic

DAVID M. PERRY DEC 6, 2017

In this era of easy access to an unfathomable amount of data, teachers must train their students to wrestle that information into utility, to sort and analyze, query, and then produce well-reasoned analysis and arguments. It will be impossible to achieve these goals by routinely demanding that students shut down all their systems and listen to a teacher speak, isolated from the broader networks. Teachers can help kids learn how to fight distraction by modeling informed exposition (i.e. lectures); teaching note-taking; and building norms based on choice, mutual respect, and good communication. That’s not an easy task, which is why it’s important to instill these values in children from a young age, throughout the whole edifice of education.

What’s College Good For? – The Atlantic

Källa: What’s College Good For? – The Atlantic

Lest I be misinterpreted, I emphatically affirm that education confers some marketable skills, namely literacy and numeracy. Nonetheless, I believe that signaling accounts for at least half of college’s financial reward, and probably more.

Students don’t seem to be getting much out of higher education.

BRYAN CAPLAN

Implicit bias trainings are used to fight racism, but IAT science is flawed — Quartz

Källa: Implicit bias trainings are used to fight racism, but IAT science is flawed — Quartz

 We certainly don’t know how to reduce implicit bias, and we don’t know how to influence unconscious views to decrease racism or sexism. There are now thousands of workplace talks and police trainings and jury guidelines that focus on implicit bias, but we still we have no strong scientific proof that these programs work.