The mind has a map of its own

realizing my mind as a city based on the schema theory A few years ago, I tried playing Cities. One of the most fascinating things about it is that the first things you have to build are roads, not buildings. The kind of roads built determine the surrounding zones, and in turn, the zones determine…

Cookie cutter

a self-introduction One of the things I like having my students do on the first day of class is to write or say something about themselves. From a teacher's perspective, it feels like a no-brainer: it's about the student, so surely they would not run out of anything to say. Right? Right. But from a…