Hello all, welcome to Digitally Literate, issue #355. I posted the following since we last saw each other: Gamify Your Learning Process With Habitica – As part of my class on gaming and gamergate, I’m having students use Habitica (a habit-focused role playing game) to keep track of habits and daily goals, as well as…
We improve the quality of what we are doing by reducing the quantity of what we shouldn’t be doing. This week some of my recent research in screentime was posted. Our chapter, Co-constructing Digital Futures, is now available for #OpenReview as part of the @mitpress Works in Progress program. I worked with the brilliant Katie…
The two main phases of sleep might work together to boost creative problem-solving.
A new theory that explains why sleep and creativity are linked. Specifically, their idea explains how the two main phases of sleep—REM and non-REM—work together to help us find unrecognized links between what we already know, and discover out-of-the-box solutions to vexing problems. As you start to fall asleep, you enter non-REM sleep. That includes a…