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

Cool Tools & Resources

• 15 Free Online Collaboration Tools and Apps: https://bit.ly/196Aqe #
• Just came across https://www.charityhowto.com/ – site with video training for nonprofits. Looks good #learningmonitor #
• 101 Experiments in the Philosophy of Everyday Life via BoingBoing: https://bit.ly/rLruD
• 4 sites to get good free advice online: https://bit.ly/mciTd
• 10 simple ways to back up your life. https://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 https://bit.ly/4rRAd8 #learningmonitor
• New M2L post 7 Language Learning Widget Sources https://bit.ly/3357jg #languages
• 5 TED Talks on Science that Will Blow Your Mind https://bit.ly/eUL2U #learningmonitor
• RT @bookoven: @LibriVox now has a catalog of 2,500 (!) free, public domain audiobooks: https://librivox.org #learningmonitor

Health & Medical

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

Learning News

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

Serious Games

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

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