In-class Readings and Links
Oblique Strategies
You'll read more about these in the book, but Brian Eno (of Beach Boys fame) created this thinking technique. Two good articles about it are available here and here. This is the link to the random "Oblique Strategy" website we used in class.
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Faster Reading with No Loss of ComprehensionNicholas Bates is always a good read.
Articles for Saturday morning exercise
Homework for next weekend
Read Introduction and Chapter 1 from How to Think.
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Reading Reflection questionsUse these questions to reflect on Gazzaley and Rosen's article, "Why our attention spans are shot."
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TED TalkChoose a TED talk on some topic relating to information (if you can find one that might be interesting enough to be a jumping off point for your research paper, great!) and watch it. Then email me a one paragraph summary and the link before class on Friday.