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COMMENT: Student Must-Haves for Scholarship Success – Yahoo! News

Student Must-Haves for Scholarship Success – Yahoo! News. By Rachel Ny | U.S.News & World Report LP – Mon, Mar 4, 2013 Just a quick comment concerning the above article by Rachel Ny (which I viewed via Yahoo News) entitled Student Must-Haves for Scholarship Success. I focused on this article because I would suggest that […]

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What’s So Social About Machine Media? (2 of 2)

Welcome to part II of my two-part series designed to investigate the following overarching question: Out of all the media that have existed for thousands of years why do we frame digital machine media as being “social?” Here are two follow-up questions: Where has this “social” frame come from? Why has the social frame been […]

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What’s So Social About Machine Media? (1 of 2)

In the beginning there was “grunt media”—communication centered on a series of modulated grunts, groans, yelps, yells, screeches, coos, etc. Next came oral media—communication centered on a group of people sitting around telling stories. The history of communication media continues thus—media centered on communicating via… …clay tablets and a system of glyphs (typically about food […]

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Executive Function (EF) and Philanthropy: A Case Example

Back on February 5th, 2013, we announced that the Foundation had started the process of shifting its Mission Focus to include Executive Function Theory. A number of you emailed us to wish us well. Thanks very much for those well wishes. A few of you wished us well and then effectively asked, “What’s EF and […]

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FHL Foundation Shifts Mission Focus to Executive Function (EF)

At our recent board meeting (01.29.13) the board voted to change the Foundation’s Mission Statement in the following way: To explicitly promote Executive Function Theory as a guiding principle toward understanding and solving societal problems. We are shifting focus from Bowlbian attachment to Executive Function Theory. We’re not leaving behind attachment; we’re adding EF to […]

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