#13 - Newton’s Apple & Bored Games
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#13 - Newton’s Apple & Bored Games
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What does Isaac Newton sitting in a 1665 orchard have to do with Silicon Valley tech executives, screen-free parenting, and a classroom full of students who finished a test 15 minutes early? In this episode of Testing Testing, host Kent Lui traces the Great Plague to modern ed-tech to explore a lost cognitive superpower: the ability to be bored.
Key Takeaways From This Episode:
The Tech Pioneer Paradox: Why the architects of digital feeds strictly limit screen time for their own children.
The Science of Consolidation: How boredom activates the brain's internal processing network to turn short-term learning into long-term memory and original creativity.
4 Low-Tech Classroom Routines: Practical, non-digital routines—like tabletop "bored games" and wander notebooks—that teachers can use tomorrow to manage post-test downtime.
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