{"id":4019,"date":"2014-07-12T18:40:38","date_gmt":"2014-07-13T00:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/?p=4019"},"modified":"2014-09-12T11:49:04","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T17:49:04","slug":"web-round-up-july-14-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2014\/07\/12\/web-round-up-july-14-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Web Round-Up (July 14 2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p class=\"diigo-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5974468\/the-most-common-cognitive-biases-that-prevent-you-from-being-rational\">The 12 cognitive biases that prevent you from being rational<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\">&#8220;The human brain is capable of 1016 processes per second, which makes it far more powerful than any computer currently in existence. But that doesn&#8217;t mean our brains don&#8217;t have major limitations. The lowly calculator can do math thousands of times better than we can, and our memories are often less than useless \u2014 plus, we&#8217;re subject to cognitive biases, those annoying glitches in our thinking that cause us to make questionable decisions and reach erroneous conclusions. Here are a dozen of the most common and pernicious cognitive biases that you need to know about. &#8220;<\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\">tags:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/nirtak\/psychology\">psychology,<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/nirtak\/bias\">bias,<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/nirtak\/cognition\">cognition,<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/nirtak\/behavior\">behavior<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/christopher-j-ferguson\/moral-combat-do-violent-v_b_5549985.html\">Moral Combat: Do Violent Video Games Make Us Reflect On Morality?\u00a0|\u00a0Christopher J. Ferguson<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\">&#8220;Scholars have long debated whether playing violent video games can produce antisocial behaviors in players. Evidence has been mixed, at best, and often controversial. And youth violence has been steadily declining for decades in the United States despite the widespread proliferation of video games. A new study may help us understand why we&#8217;re not seeing antisocial behaviors in-game translate to the real world. Rather than making players consider aggressive acts, such games may actually nudge them to think more morally.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\">tags:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/nirtak\/video games\">video games<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/nirtak\/indieweb\">indieweb<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/nirtak\/games\">games<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/nirtak\/morality\">morality<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/nirtak\/Trouble in River City\">Trouble in River City<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-07293-7_39\">Gamification of Education: A Review of Literature &#8211; Springer<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Gamification of Education: A Review of Literature - Springer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/item\/image\/2jivj\/7we0\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/item\/p\/ecpdesdzcbsrsepsezbecbcbao?image_size=160\" alt=\"Gamification of Education: A Review of Literature - Springer\" \/> <\/a>&lt;<\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-ps\">Posted from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\">Diigo<\/a>. The rest of my favorite links are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/nirtak\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class='wp_likes' id='wp_likes_post-4019'><a class='like' href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(4019);\" title='' ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-likes\/images\/like.png\" alt='' border='0'\/><\/a><span class='text'>Be the first to like.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class='like' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(4019);\">Like<\/a><\/div>\n<div class='unlike' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.unlike(4019);\">Unlike<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>The 12 cognitive biases that prevent you from being rational &#8220;The human brain is capable of 1016 processes per second, which makes it far more powerful than any computer currently in existence. But that doesn&#8217;t mean our brains don&#8217;t have &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2014\/07\/12\/web-round-up-july-14-2014\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[353,9,14,81,24],"tags":[325,323,324,342,322,25],"class_list":["post-4019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-2","category-educational-technology","category-general","category-information-technology","category-teaching-learning","tag-behavior","tag-bias","tag-cognition","tag-games-gaming","tag-psychology","tag-trouble-in-river-city"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Hsb6-12P","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1009,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2010\/08\/07\/thoughts-on-ed-theories-cognitive-load\/","url_meta":{"origin":4019,"position":0},"title":"Thoughts on Ed Theories: Cognitive Load","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"August 7, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Forgive me, I come from Science. \"Theory\" means something different in science from what it means in education. 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