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(See Resource Links Archives 2011 - 2012)

Technology, Brain Development and Other Interesting Articles

2012 - 2013

Your Phone vs. Your Heart
CAN you remember the last time you were in a public space in America and didn’t notice that half the people around you were bent over a digital screen, thumbing a connection to somewhere else?
By Barbara L. Fredrickson, The New York Times, March 23, 2013

The digital age has changed what it means to "search"
by Nicholas Carr, Marketplace, American Public Media, Tuesday, January 15, 2013

The Sorcerer's Apprentice: Mind over Machinery
By Douglas Gerwin, PhD

Pediatricians say kids need recess during school
By Andrew M. Seaman | Reuters – Mon, Dec 31, 2012

Take Two Hours of Pine Forest and Call me in the Morning
These days, screen-addicted Americans are more stressed out and distracted than ever. And nope, there’s no app for that. But there is a radically simple remedy: get outside. Florence Williams travels to the deep woods of Japan, where researchers are backing up the surprising theory that nature can lower your blood pressure, fight off depression, beat back stress—and even prevent cancer.
By Florence Williams, Outside Magazine, December 2012

Vandana Shiva: Everything I Need to Know I Learned in the Forest
Today, at a time of multiple crises, we need to move away from thinking of nature as dead matter to valuing her biodiversity, clean water, and seeds. For this, nature herself is the best teacher.

Yes Magazine, December 5, 2012
(Editor's note: Dr. Vandana Shiva was a keynote speaker at the "Future of Agriculture" conference in 2011 at the Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland)

Technology Changing How Students Learn, Teachers Say
By Matt Richtel, The New York Times, Published: November 1, 2012

Is "secondhand" TV taking a toll on kids?
CNN Health, by Amanda Gardner, Health.com
updated 7:17 AM EDT, Mon October 1, 2012

Bootstrapping A Child's Education - California's DIY School

Waldorf Education featured in Forbes!

Forbes / Logistics & Transportation / 9/19/2012

Back to School
As kids and teachers head back to school, we wanted to turn away from questions about politics and unions and money and all the regular school stuff people argue about, and turn to something more optimistic — an emerging theory about what to teach kids, from Paul Tough's new book How Children Succeed.
This American Life from WBEZ, Sept. 14, 2012

No More 1950’s: How Simplicity Parenting is the Way to Prepare Kids for a Complex Future

This article first appeared in the Huffington Post in September 2012. This is an edited version of that article
By Kim John Payne

Spoiled Rotten: Why do kids rule the roost?

Why are American Kids so spoiled? Click on the link above to find out.
Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, July 2, 2012

Waldorf Resources

www.awsna.org
The web site of the Association of Waldorf Schools of North America, an association of independent Waldorf schools and Waldorf teacher education institutes. AWSNA’s mission is to strengthen and support the schools and to inform the public about the benefits of Waldorf education.

www.whywaldorfworks.org
Developed by AWSNA, this site provides “everything you need to know about Waldorf education.”

www.bobnancy.com
Bob & Nancy’s Services – A comprehensive web site for Waldorf education and anthroposophy. Includes a bookshop, general store, synopses of Steiner’s lectures, links to all Waldorf school web sites, and more.

www.centerforanthroposophy.org

The Center supports schools worldwide by continually renewing Waldorf teachers and those who stand with them as administrators, trustees, parents, and friends. Courses are offered in:

• Foundation Studies in Anthroposophy
• High School Teacher Education
• Eurythmy Teacher Training
• Renewal Courses for Teachers and Others

       View Program Portraits movie.

The Center offers Foundations Studies at Merriconeag Waldorf School in Freeport, Maine. For more information call, 865-3900 x 108.