Okay, what are you doing right now, while you’re reading this? Multitasking? The Core Knowledge Blog has posted a video by cognitive psychologist and education writer Daniel Willingham. The moral: Just because you can multitask doesn’t mean you should. You can also get the video here.
Alain de Botton has a thought-provoking essay at City Journal. He says that we need to avoid all the distractions that surround us and, instead, concentrate more. As I write this, though, I’m doing the very thing he critcizes: To sit still and think, without succumbing to an anxious reach for a machine, has become [...]
We’re up to our eyeballs in other stuff at the moment, but we couldn’t resist hanging out our shingle on the Net. When we finally get here, we’ll be talking about schools and education, Catholic anthropology and the Federalist, dogs and gardens and other things that strike our fancy. See you all in just a [...]