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...want to steer the car--is usually, perhaps invariably, performed sequentially" or one task at a time, says Pashler. On the other hand, producing the actions you've decided on--moving your hand on the steering wheel, speaking the words you've formulated--can be performed "in parallel with planning some other action." Similarly, many aspects of perception--looking, listening, touching--can be performed in parallel with action planning and with movement...
...Turkle, "I tell them this is not a place for e-mail, it's not a place to do online searches and not a place to set up IRC [Internet relay chat] channels in which to comment on the class. It's not going to help if there are parallel discussions about how boring it is. You've got to get people to participate in the world...
...with the educational cutting-edge. But test scores still lag behind neighboring communities, and the school will lose its second principal in five years this spring. The school’s façade, with its paintings of children in shades of blue, fuchsia, and orange, offers an artistic parallel to the challenges facing today’s CRLS. The colorful design pays tribute to the school’s commitment to diversity, but the odd color scheme also points toward the difficulties in coordinating resources for 1,800 students with a vast range of needs.“We?...
...forward Dave Watters said. “We knew what we had to do in the third period.” Fifty-nine seconds in, junior winger Ryan Maki attempted a shot from the bottom of the left circle after swinging around from the end boards. Despite being almost parallel to the goal-line, Maki somehow managed to find the right side of the net. “That was just a great individual effort,” said Donato of the goal. “It was nice to see [Maki] get rewarded for all his hard work with...
What I propose is by no means a complete solution; For starters, I’ve completely disregarded the parallel concern of improving and expanding the pool of faculty advisors, who would and should continue to offer formal academic guidance to freshmen, to sign their study cards, and so on. There’s no question that progress must be made here as well, but a successful advising relationship with a faculty member would complement the far more important relationship between freshmen and their upperclass advisors and big siblings...