The Importance Of The Arts, And Other Subjects Tweets of the Morning 9/10/12

'A man of infinite jest.'

The arts engage your whole mind, and also your body, to reach into your emotions. Who couldn't empathize with Helen Keller, Hamlet, or Oliver Twist?

1. Interest in Arts Predicts Social Responsibility

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/08/120816151809.htm 

2. Stage Swagger & Swordplay: Adapting Shakespeare for Kids http://www.teachhub.com/stage-swagger-swordplay-adapting-shakespeare-kids

3. The Science of “Chunking,” Working Memory, and How Pattern Recognition Fuels Creativity

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/09/04/the-ravenous-brain-daniel-bor/ 

4.  Introducing the What Is Education? Project

 http://hollykorbey.com/2012/09/10/introducing-the-what-is-education-project/

5. When A Popular List Of 100 'Best-Ever' Teen Books Is The 'Whitest Ever' 

http://www.npr.org/blogs/ombudsman/2012/09/10/160768675/when-a-popular-list-of-100-best-ever-teen-books-is-the-whitest-ever?utm_source=NPR&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=20120903 

6. Survey: Despite Budget Cuts, Schools Prioritize Technology

http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/09/despite-budget-cuts-schools-prioritize-technology/ 

7.How disruptive is a disruptive child?

http://www.readingrockets.org/blog/53731/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Hootsuite&utm_campaign=RRSocialMedia 

Well, get on it!

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