Marshmallows Image by John-Morgan at Flickr.com
Radio Lab
- RadioLab.org – Your Future in a Marshmallow
- Average was 8 minutes before the cookie was eaten
- OREO mmmmmm
- The kids who ate the cookie faster ended up becoming bullies, or had problems in their later life. They became “Problem Kids”
- The kids who could wait for the cookie became successful, had a better education, and are overall positive.
- A professor named Walter invented the marshmallow test.
This American Life
- This American Life podcast Back to School
- Convective development is how you thing about being smart, like IQ tests.
- Flash cards, and videos should be used earlier on to help kids learn
- GED is for when you don’t graduate high school (dropout) High school is equivalent to 4 years of high school. And you only do some months to get a GED.
- GED’s are performing better then graduates?
- What are the skills that High school graduates have then GED students that don’t?
- A school has it’s ratings based on tests
- If you Delay gratification, it makes you stronger.
- “Poor children” do worse in school not because of money, but because of stress.
- Kids who had traumatic experiences when they were younger, ended up having health problems later in life.