New ToPIX Content: 4/10/2011

It's the beginning of a new quarter for many of us here in the Pacific Northwest.  It usually takes me about 3 weeks to get my bearings.  Tomorrow begins Week 3, so I'm declaring myself ahead of schedule.

Aaron Richmond has added a couple new resources to the Educational Psych in the Classroom page. (Thanks Aaron!)

• How to use instructional and assessment vignettes in your educational psychology class
• Constructivism taught constructively

In Neuroscience in the News is a story on soldiers who returned home with traumatic brain injury and PTSD.  The story opens with one soldier's failed attempt at suicide-by-cop.


On a lighter note, NPR reported last week on research on the benefits of being bilingual.  You can find a link to that story on the Language in the News page.