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Discover how ancient Stoic techniques can enhance your writing focus. Learn practical tips for a distraction-free writing experience in today's busy world.

A new metanalysis adds to the growing evidence base showing that reading on screens is worse for comprehension.

4. Handwriting improves thinking. (Yours, too.)

If we want students to take control of their learning, we first need to implement mechanistic metacognition so that they understand how best to learn, argues Jared Cooney Horvath

Manuskript. Most people don't know it. It's software for writers. Software with lots of options, while being a lot simpler than Scrivener. I know loads of authors live inside Scrivener, and hooray for them, but it's too much, big, complex, confusing for me. Read about Manuskript etc at their homepage. There are screenshots and a list of features. This post, and perhaps another one, will go into how I use it, to give you an idea. Note: Manuskript is Free…

How students process information is at least as important as how teachers deliver it.

Necessary cognitive fortification against propaganda, pseudoscience, and general falsehood.

research and conceptual discussions in literacy and language learning

Both folktales and formal philosophy unsettle us into thinking anew about our cherished values and views of the world

The Magazine for Science and Reason

Science means being able to change your mind in light of new evidence

Science confirms what many have already suspected —critical thinking mentally draining and often unpleasant.

What we can build this way is a world where policy is evidence based. Where we make data informed decisions, while understanding that the data isn’t perfect. Where kids are empowered to learn all o…

Plato's cave metaphor illustrates the cognitive trap of ignorance, where we may be unaware of the limitations of our understanding.

Flip an image, horizontally and/or vertically

Make photo in the form of a circle, triangle, heart or in different geometric shapes online.

Free, open-source, full-featured Markdown editor.

Sketchpad: Free online drawing application for all ages. Create digital artwork to share online and export to popular image formats JPEG, PNG, SVG, and PDF.

Sketchpad is available online and for download on PC and Mac. Whether you're working on a school poster or brainstorming your next comic book character, Sketchpad makes it easy to bring your ideas to life. Easily draw, edit photos, or design your next business card. Craft images for social media posts, digital ads, paper, or even apparel

Hemingway Editor makes your writing bold and clear.

We have encouraged our readers to participate in a contest by designing beautiful and creative horizontal lines. It was necessary, since this design-element was slowly disappearing and was often neglected in web design. But it is going to change now. We have received 1290 images and source-files from 384 designers across the globe. The result is an impressive collection of horizontal lines that designers can use for free without any restrictions whatsoever.

Do you want to share files between devices, keep them synced up, and avoid using cloud services to do the job? SyncThing has your back.

The NCES Kids' Zone provides information to help you learn about schools; decide on a college; find a public library; engage in several games, quizzes and skill building about math, probability, graphing, and mathematicians; and to learn many interesting facts about education.

Free online web content composer with HTML source editor and rich text WYSIWYG editor preview. It works without downloading and installing any program.