The Secret Powers of Time

As a kick-off for this new blog, I want to share a presentation made by Philip Zimbardo, Professor of Psychology from Stanford University.  In The Secret Powers of Time he gives a framework for how people perceive time and proposes that this impacts on their approach to the world. He claims that religion and geography impact on individuals' time perspectives.

Prof Zimbardo also makes a case for why we need digital classrooms - he claims that the brains of American youth are being 'digitally rewired' because of the huge amount of time they spend on computers, playing games and watching videos. His observations are based on American youth but I wonder how long it will be before African youth are considered to be 'digital natives' and what the implications are for teaching and learning - especially in skills development?

I also like this animation method and think it is an interesting teaching method - much better than just watching the presenter. What do you think?