Thing 13

Education

Holy cow, I feel like a sluggish moron after doing the train-to-the-station game on Lumosity! And this is to get a baseline? Imagine how bad I will be at this when I'm 75 if I don't get working on this now. I do like having this app, but I fear getting addicted. I actually now play Solitaire sometimes before bed instead of reading, which is the worst thing in the world because that is my only reading time. At least I have more sympathy for my middle son who can't bear to put his video games down and pick up a book.

But the Khan Academy app is a beautiful thing! I will be downloading that to my daughter's phone before school starts--I wish we had known about this during her woeful last year in Chemistry. I love the simplicity of this app, where you just click on Science, then choose Chemistry, then choose whatever topic they're studying. I clicked on Stoichiometry, then opened the first video (Introduction to Stoichiometry), and it was quite pleasant and, well, instructive. Amy complained all year long about how her teacher "doesn't teach us anything, just expects us to know it!" Please. Next time, I will just hand her her phone and say "Look it up on Khan Academy." Of course then I'll have to watch her to make sure she doesn't wander off onto YouTube music videos, but whatever it takes.