Thinking Clearly and Analytically

Last week I was in San Antonio participating in the brand new THINK Now! Critical Thinking Training program, and was supposed to have a nice short flight home on Friday morning.

Organizational barriers to evidence-based management.

Jane McGonigal argues that games are not a waste of time. In fact, she argues, "we need to look at what games are doing for gamers, the skills that we’re developing, the relationships that we’re forming, the heroic qualities that we get to practice every time we play."

Planning ahead might make us overlook new solutions...

Push notification and the fabric it creates are about what comes next.

HOW THE SCIENCE OF LEARNABLE INTELLIGENCE IS CHANGING EDUCATION by banter666 in Books - Non-fiction, Education, and teaching...

Just because Disney is a giant company, don't think its mobile division wasn't excited about one of its games pushing the iOS App Store past the 25 billion download mark earlier this month.

The SharpBrains Guide to Brain Fitness: 18 Interviews with Scientists, Practical Advice, and Product Reviews, To Keep Your Brain Sharp Book...

Debunking 10 Brain and Brain Fitness Myths MYTHS FACTS 1. Genes determine the fate of our brains.

If you want your employees to think more effectively, you wouldn’t take a dictionary-approach and teach them how to handle every single situation they may encounter in life/business. Instead, you should teach them the basic building blocks of better thinking.

What brain changes transform children from creatures of impulse into fully functioning adults? In a 2001 study that used fMRI imaging to scan the brains of 254 subjects, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh identified the key brain changes that signal mental maturity.

Students, teachers, and parents in New York State don't know what to make of this bizarre question on the state exams. Let's see if you can do better.

Great leaders think strategically. They can understand and appreciate the current state as well as see possibilities.

A new study of tweets about movies suggests they are not necessarily a good predictor of box office revenues, say computer scientists...

The recent dis­cov­ery that expe­ri­ence can change brain struc­ture and func­tion at any age has sparked numer­ous health, edu­ca­tion, and pro­duc­tiv­ity appli­ca­tions whose value and lim­i­ta­tions we are only start­ing to grasp.

Quick! Say aloud what color you see in every word -- DONT just read each word.   Not easy, right!