See here:
http://www.boardworks.co.uk/as-psychology_464/product-blog?email=3341664
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Simon Knight
The Brain: A Secret History-1. Mind Control – available until Jan 27th. This ep will be repeated on bbc4 on Jan 11th. Next ep is on – emotion (jan 13th, then 14th)
How Drugs Work – 1. Cannabis – available until Jan 27th This ep will be repeated on BBC3 on Jan 9th, 10th, 11th, and 13th. Next ep is on – ecstasy (Jan 13th, 14th & 16th)
What Makes Us Clever? A Horizon Guide to Intelligence – available until Jan 19th This ep will be repeated on BBC4 on Jan 12th
EDIT 11.33 (thanks to Hilary Paul on psychexchange): 10 things you need to know about losing weight is here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00ksh7c/10_Things_You_Need_to_Know_About_Losing_Weight/ and available until Jan 13th (can’t find it’s proper site so not sure if it’s being repeated)
V. frustrating that these things get consigned to the iplayer cliff edge of doom…there are (illegal I assume) ways to download them but given they’re repeated this week it should be possible to record them!
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Thanks to THSP for this (as below):
In today’s NYT: an incredible array of articles, interviews, videos and interactive games that are just begging to be squeezed into a unit on cognition or memory, or at the very least as filler for 15 minutes. Among the highlights:
- Tracing the spark of creative problem-solving (features insight, with interactive puzzles)
- An unbelievably speedy champion crossword puzzle solver (and a special crossword to boot)
- A great article on famed memory patient H.M. and how he continued to solve crosswords
- Students at Brown show how crossword constructing is done*
And there is so much more, on topics like jigsaw puzzles, mind-bending puzzles (which came first, the chicken or the egg?), and a great essay on puzzles by the usually mute magician Teller of Penn & Teller. Enjoy solving!
Perhaps something in there for those last lessons of term! Enjoy!
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I try and encourage my students to read about psychology in the media as well as their additional textbook reading. Although there are often newspaper articles relating to psychology, there are also a lot of blogs about psychology out there, of varying qualities & interest to a-level psychology. I discussed using delicious.com to save bookmarks to posts like this in an earlier post.
A few blogs I often link from are:
BPS research digest – on current research, written for non-specialists
Mental Health Update – short posts on mental health research
Mind Hacks – brilliant blog which often throws up interesting psychology, current and historic
Neuro images – not updated so frequently, but a nice selection of brain pictures – artistic, neuroimaging and anatomical
Teaching High school Psychology – American equivalent of this blog I suppose, has nice teaching ideas and occasionally resources
There’s quite a nice category-specific list here:
http://generallythinking.com/blog/the-28-best-psychology-blogs-on-the-internet-organised-by-topic/
Fuller list here (which should also get updated):
http://psychology.wikia.com/wiki/Psychology_blogs
The researchdigest recently posted a list of psychologists who tweet, which includes me (tweeting on a-level related psychology news). I turned that into a twitter list (so you can see all their tweets in one place).
To follow these links, I use googlereader, there are alternatives but they’re all fairly similar – the video below shows how I use this to:
1) follow blogs I want to read
2) read them & mark them as unread or starred
3) send specific posts to delicious/twitter/email
Sorry this video is a bit long – if I get time/remember I’ll try and create a shorter version.
If you use any other blogs for psychology teaching, do comment.
The movie was made using the opensource CamStudio and (also opensource) Virtual Magnifying Glass with editing in Windows Live Moviemaker.
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Looking for a way to spice up your lessons? Students fed up of powerpoint and poster activities? Here are some other options, I particularly like prezi because it allows a fantastic conceptual hierarchy. For example, this (rough) one for Working Memory Model
Working Memory Model WMM on Prezi
Check out this prezi for a quiz and mindmap links and a wordle example.
If you have more ideas do let us know! If this was useful, drop a comment and I’ll post more resources like this.
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Looked through the Cambridge festival of ideas list and all the events below seem relelvant to psychology teaching, with the most relevant ones highlighted. Of interest to anyone around cambridge on those dates.
Green = psychology, blue = philosophy, none = interesting for one/both but not tightly tied to the subject.
Sanity?: Attitudes to mental health
Wed 20 October
Discuss attitudes to mental health with The Open University. The Open University has recently co-produced two television programmes on mental health with the BBC, which aim to raise awareness of good mental health and to de-stigmatise mental illness. Doors open at 5pm. BOOKING REQUIRED
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This event might interest some people (thanks to MindNetwork), more likely the exhibition at the science museum on psychoanalysis which will run from October 13th to April 2011 will be of interest especially to anyone in London.
FULL DETAILS
DATE: 15 October 2010
TITLE: Between Brain and Mind?
TIME: 6.00pm, followed by drinks reception at 8.00pm
VENUE: Royal Geographical Society, London
TICKETS: £15/£12 including wine, book at www.beyondthecouch.org.uk
DR RONALD BRITTON LAUNCHES SERIES OF SPECIAL EVENTS FROM THE INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOANALYSIS WITH AN EXPLORATION OF MODELS OF THE BRAIN AND MIND…
Dr Britton says, “The neuroscientist’s view of mental function might be too simple and the psychoanalyst’s model of the brain too naïve - can the two models ever be conjoined? …
The event is part of an exciting one-off programme organised by The Institute of Psychoanalysis, covering a range of topics from murder, revenge and denial to identity formation, humour and dreams.
The events complement the Science Museum’s groundbreaking exhibition, Psychoanalysis: The Unconscious in Everyday Life. Running from 13 October 2010 to April 2011, the exhibition focuses on a key concept of psychoanalysis – how the unconscious is manifest in everyday experiences. It will include a range of modern and historical objects, digital animation, audio interpretation and works by leading artists such as Grayson Perry and Noble & Webster.
Full details of the programme of events and the exhibition can be found at www.beyondthecouch.org.uk
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Cara Flanagan has j
ust posted a comparison table of pass rates for the different boards on the new Folens blog here (which by the way also looks pretty good; I’ve subscribed)
The key comment from her psychexchange forum post is:
The fact that the different boards probably do attract slightly different cohorts mean that direct comparisons are not possible but there are certainly some major differences in pass rates.
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