Beef Up Your Brain and other Assorted Edutweets

Time for another round of linky learning via Mission to Learn on Twitter. Seems we had the mind on our mind this time around. Enjoy.

The Human Mind & Learning

• Top five ways to beef up your brain: http://bit.ly/rhU8F
• Daniel Goleman on building willpower, neuroplasticity http://bit.ly/19iTuX
• Why is it hard to “unlearn” an incorrect fact? http://bit.ly/Sae7G
• 50 tips to improve memory http://bit.ly/gt3eB
• Do we learn more from success than failure? http://bit.ly/BpDcG
• 4 Steps to Mindfulness: http://bit.ly/bvMDh
• 10 Questions for Your Reflective Practice: http://bit.ly/19qvy8
• New Mission to Learn post on improving and maintaining memory: http://bit.ly/qPGhX #

Cool Tools & Resources

• 15 Free Online Collaboration Tools and Apps: http://bit.ly/196Aqe #
• Just came across http://www.charityhowto.com/ – site with video training for nonprofits. Looks good #learningmonitor #
• 101 Experiments in the Philosophy of Everyday Life via BoingBoing: http://bit.ly/rLruD
• 4 sites to get good free advice online: http://bit.ly/mciTd
• 10 simple ways to back up your life. http://bit.ly/18SNZn Hit home, given that I recently lost quite a bit due to not backing up properly.
• The Ultimate Self Education Reading List http://bit.ly/4rRAd8 #learningmonitor
• New M2L post 7 Language Learning Widget Sources http://bit.ly/3357jg #languages
• 5 TED Talks on Science that Will Blow Your Mind http://bit.ly/eUL2U #learningmonitor
• RT @bookoven: @LibriVox now has a catalog of 2,500 (!) free, public domain audiobooks: http://librivox.org #learningmonitor

Health & Medical

• 10 Free Online First Aid Resources – Learn to Save a Life! New M2L post – http://bit.ly/poLCZ
• The King Kong List for Feee Medical Online Resources from @zaidlearn http://bit.ly/8S2k3 #learningmonitor

Learning News

• Duke professor uses crowdsourcing to grade – via Digg http://bit.ly/1hs34F
• via @openednews Creative Commons launches DiscoverEd http://bit.ly/OyOjb
• A little trivia fun on Mission to Learn: http://bit.ly/11Bb6a
• Open Courseware Consortium Webinar series http://bit.ly/3tqbMb via @openednews #learningmonitor

Serious Games

• Top 100 Learning Game Resources http://bit.ly/IHKVe #learningmonitor
• Survey of electronic games that teach: http://www.wingz2fly.com/Ga… via epistemic games
• The CEO Game: A Serious Business Game http://www.theceogame.com/ #learningmonitor
• Will Wright on educational gaming: http://bit.ly/9Pq5X

Have a great weekend, and be sure to follow Mission to Learn on Twitter!

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posted on August 13, 2009