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The purpose of David Moursund’s IAE Blog is to encourage and facilitate people working to improve informal and formal education at all levels and in all discipline areas. A unifying theme is that education empowers the educated and improves their quality of life. Readers are encouraged to add comments.
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Nov 11
2011

A Miracle of Modern Medical Technology


Posted by Dave Moursund in Physical and Mental Handicaps

Use of the Information Age Education resources continues to grow. For a list of IAE’s six major resources and data about three of them, go to http://iae-pedia.org/Main_Page.

We have all read about the “double helix” and  “sequencing” the human genome. The following short article gave e much deeper insight into the power of such research.

Luiggi, Cristina (01/1/2011). Double blind. The Scientist Magazine of the Life Sciences. Retrieved 11/11/2011 from http://the-scientist.com/2011/10/01/double-blind/.

Feb 02
2011

An excellent (and short) cognitive neuroscience video.


Posted by Dave Moursund in Physical and Mental Handicaps

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Yesterday one of my readers pointed me to the following 7-minute video:

Nov 08
2010

What should we teach our kids about various handicapping conditions?


Posted by Dave Moursund in Physical and Mental Handicaps

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When I was finishing high school, I took the State of Oregon vocational tests. I remember doing quite poorly on the spatial reasoning and manual dexterity parts of the test. I recall that I received a report that suggested I should not plan to take more advanced math courses due to my spatial reasoning level of performance on these ability tests.