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How sleep helps kids learn

Posted by todd at 7:03 AM on January 30, 2008

A constant joy in my life is watching how my kids develop and learn. They are 3y and 18 months and seem to grow in understanding and vocabulary in the time it takes me to blink. There is a great article on Cognitive Daily about new research into the part sleep plays in helping kids learn.

The current thoughts on why younger kids need more sleep is because of the shear volume of information they ingest. When they nap their brains take all this information they have gathered and put it into order, adding to and reinforcing the information stored from previous days.

Next time I feel tired at work I will take a nap and tell my boss I am just processing the extreme amounts of information I ingested earlier.

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ROOT/ VAULTS is the first bank for your attention data

Posted by geeknews at 2:01 PM on November 29, 2005

I was aware that this site had launched and till today had not given it much of a look just because I have been pretty busy. But reading essentially the vision statement behind the site made me look a little deeper. I will report back in a couple of weeks after using the service but I think their are real possibilities here. Attention is important I am trying to determine if this site meets my approval but it is well worth the look.

I also think you should read the vision statement of the creator before you visit the website. [Root.net]

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Jeff Jarvis wants his Attention Data

Posted by geeknews at 7:24 PM on November 26, 2005

I have talked about “Attention” for a while now, and think it’s a important for everyone to understand how valuable their attention is. Jeff Jarvis is calling Yahoo, Apple, Google Reader, NewsGator and other RSS newsreaders to task in wanting to know specifics about how his feeds are being used.

I know for example if I visit bloglines.com how many people are subscribed to the Geek News Central RSS feed but they among others cache that data. Since most companies are caching information the raw hit info is not being reported back to the source where this information can be registered within the servers log files.

Personally I don’t care who is reading the info from this site and where they are coming from literally, but I would like a better way to measure article impact. Honestly though I don’t dwell on it to much but as I have said in some recent articles the tools that are out their now to measure RSS are pretty bad.

Jeff gets called to the carpet by several of the readers, but I think many miss the point and do not understand the value and the importance of Attention. A recent comment by a reader of GNC and listener of the podcast made me do some thinking about Attention, in understanding that not only is Attention data a two way street with you the reader and I, but it also should be a two way street between me and those that make a lot of money by providing my content along with a large number of others content to a centralized audience.

So in principle I agree with Jeff but to be honest I think it will be a long time before most of these companies every get on board and realize that if they provided us some semblance of good statistics it would ultimately help those of us that keep track of this stuff.

Some of you that are very vocal will drop me a comment of e-mail on articles that peak your interest most will not. For more info on Attention please visit the AttentionTrust.org which this site is a member of. [Jeff Jarvis]