You will enjoy the fruit of your labor.How joyful and prosperous you will be!
~Psalm 128:2 (NLT)
1:: Continuing with yesterday’s themes, I seriously have Babies on my mind.
The creativity at this blog, Mila’s Daydreams, is astounding. I don’t have babies who sleep that soundly. I also have laundry to fold…
2:: I mentioned this movie a while back, but had been unable to find a location nearby where it was playing. Then, voila, I found it at Netflix Instant Play! (Thank you, Netflix.)
3:: And….Education. I know that is a surprise to all of you. I figured since I managed to get a little bit of handwriting in this past week (and took a picture!), I could post this interesting article:
How Handwriting Trains the Brain: Forming Letters Is Key to Learning, Memory, Ideas @ The Wall Street Journal:
She says pictures of the brain have illustrated that sequential finger movements activated massive regions involved in thinking, language and working memory—the system for temporarily storing and managing information.
And one recent study of hers demonstrated that in grades two, four and six, children wrote more words, faster, and expressed more ideas when writing essays by hand versus with a keyboard.
4:: I’ll roll with the documentaries and share two more. Two ends of the school system spectrum:
(HT: Jennifer @ Planted by Streams)
“Our students are pressured to perform. They’re not necessarily pressured to learn deeply and conceptually.” ~ Race to Nowhere
“We need to really think, ‘What does it take to produce a happy, motivated, creative human being?’ ” ~ Race to Nowhere