Guest Thinkers — February 16, 2011

Are you an infrequent edublogger?

A weekly newsletter featuring the biggest ideas from the smartest people

Are you an infrequent edublogger? Would you like to blog more but often have writer’s block?

If so, check out Melanie Holtsman’s Fall Blog Challenge. She has a list of weekly topics for you. Simply react to her prompts and tag each post (and tweet to @Holtsman) with the following hashtag:

#fallblogchallenge2010

What are you waiting for? Get your creative juices flowing and connect with other edubloggers. Great idea, Melanie!

A weekly newsletter featuring the biggest ideas from the smartest people

Aphantasia limits the ability to visualize a statue of a man in the mind's eye.

Neuropsych

My brain doesn’t picture things. What’s wrong with me?

I also can’t conjure sounds, smells, or any other kind of sensory stimulation inside my head. This is called “aphantasia.”

Business

5 key areas where generative AI can help dissolve business roadblocks

We used to think, “That email isn’t going to write itself.” But now it can, thanks to AI. And there’s so much more, from coding to marketing.

A statue of a man sitting under a night sky filled with stars.

The Learning Curve

The 3 disciplines of Stoicism: A guide for living a life of meaning and intention

Philosophers Massimo Pigliucci and Greg Lopez discuss how Stoicism can help us gain perspective on our emotions and act with intention in the world.

Neuropsych

5 things worth knowing about empathy

“We are biologically programmed to have empathy. It’s something we can’t suppress.”

The Future

ChatGPT is great – you’re just using it wrong

Can ChatGPT help you power through writer’s block?

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