Virginia Whidden

FACS retired teacher, Mom, Nana, Wife, Passionate about FCCLA, travel, photography, motorcycles, friends and family

[Arti Shah @TechByArti]

A man spends 50 years teaching at MIT.

When he realizes his time is running out, he sits down to record one final lecture — a lifetime of wisdom compressed into a single hour.

He passed away just 5 months later.

This is that lecture.

The most valuable 60 minutes you’ll watch this week.
(Bookmark this for later)

[Kyronis @kyronis_talks]

A community college professor named Marty Lobdell taught the same study skills lecture for 30 years. The video quietly became one of the most watched educational recordings online, with over 10 million views.

He spent his career watching students fail not because they were lazy, but because no one had taught them how their brain actually works when learning something difficult.

The lecture, “Study Less Study Smart,” contains a powerful framework.

Your brain cannot sustain focus the way most people believe. Studies show the average learner hits a wall between 25 and 30 minutes. After that, efficiency collapses. You’re still sitting there, but almost nothing is being absorbed.

Lobdell told the story of a student who planned to study 6 hours a night, 5 nights a week. Thirty hours total. She failed every class. She was not lacking effort. She was confusing time near books with actual learning. The fix is simple: when focus drops, stop, take a 5 minute rewarding break, then return. That reset makes a massive difference.
He also destroyed the myth of highlighting and re reading. Recognition is not the same as recall. To prove it, he read 13 random letters. Almost no one remembered them. Then he turned them into “Happy Thursday.” The entire room recalled them instantly. The brain stores meaning, not repetition.

This is why elaborative encoding works so well.

Finally, he shared the most important principle: 80 percent of study time should be active recitation. Close the book and explain the material in your own words. Teach it to someone else or an empty chair. Retrieval is where real learning happens.

His closing line stuck with me: If this information does not change your
behaviour, you have not actually learned it.

The best students do not study more hours. They stop confusing the feeling of studying with the reality of learning.

[Virginia Whidden @vwhidde]

@HeismanTrophy I want to vote for #EmmettJohnson

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

This video is one of the best on the internet and always deserves to be posted.
She was such a genius.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Trump consistently dodged service, mocking our military and POWs. He has no right to speak on stolen valor or veterans, period.

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

This really happened last night.

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson says that after President Biden's State of the Union address there was almost nothing that Republicans can agree to.

This seemingly would include Biden wanting to end cancer, fund the police, help lower crime, support IVF, raise taxes on billionaires to help lower the national debt, raise teacher salaries, and secure the border.

Johnson is either lying or he’s saying the quiet part out loud: Republicans don’t want Biden to help America, because it hurts Trump.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

BRILLIANT!

If you have not read Eric Swalwell's questions to Hunter Biden during his hearing, you have to.

SWALWELL: Any time your father was in government, prior to the Presidency or before, did he ever operate a hotel?

BIDEN: No, he has never operated a hotel.

SWALWELL: So he’s never operated a hotel where foreign nationals spent millions at that hotel while he was in office?

BIDEN: No, he has not.

SWALWELL: Did your father ever employ in the Oval Office any direct family member to also work in the Oval Office?

BIDEN: My father has never employed any direct family members, to my knowledge.

SWALWELL: While your father was President, did anyone in the family receive 41 trademarks from China?

BIDEN: No.

SWALWELL: As President and the leader of the party, has your father ever tried to install as the chairperson of the party a daughter-in-law or anyone else in the family?

BIDEN: No. And I don’t think that anyone in my family would be crazy enough to want to be the chairperson of the DNC.

SWALWELL: Has your father ever in his time as an adult been fined $355 million by any State that he worked in?

BIDEN: No, he has not, thank God.

SWALWELL: Anyone in your family ever strike a multibillion dollar deal with the Saudi Government while your father was in office?

BIDEN: No.

SWALWELL: That’s all I’ve got.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

COPIED FROM JOE BECIGNEUL: THIS IS PROBABLY GOING TO TICK SOME PEOPLE OFF, AND I HOPE IT DOES. BUT I’M GOING TO KEEP ON SHARING IT AND SAYING IT. AND ONCE AGAIN, I AM NOT A SWIFTIE, BUT I AM A HUMAN BEING, A DAD AND, A MONSTROUS FOOTBALL FAN.
I am extremely disappointed in so many of you who think that "not being a fan" of someone means you're entitled to shit all over them.
I want to remind you of something.
Your children are watching you complain about Taylor Swift sitting at a football game, being happy, and cheering for a man she loves in what appears to be a very loving, respectful relationship.
Your Children are watching you judge a woman for literally just EXISTING and taking up space happily.
And you know what? Ms. Swift has won 324 awards? How many do you have?
She brought $5 BILLION dollars in consumer spending and boosted the U. S. economy so significantly, that leaders from other countries actually beg for her to play there?
Did you know that there are over 20 college courses about her skills as an artist, lyricist, and musician - including at places like Harvard, Stanford & UC Berkeley?
Did you know that Taylor Swift quietly donates mass amounts of money to local food banks in every city she performs in?
AND DID YOU KNOW …
That Taylor Swift was sexually assaulted by a radio DJ, and she got him fired? When he sued HER for over $3 million for defamation, she counter sued for a symbolic $1 in a court case that took 2 YEARS for her to win. And, she did that just to show women that fighting for what's right has no price tag & to never be silent in the face of oppression.
WELL IF YOU DON’T CARE BY NOW, YOU SHOULD.
Because your daughters, nieces, and your nephews are watching you run your mouth. And they are seeing the world hate a woman who does so much good, simply because she exists in their line of sight.
DO BETTER PEOPLE.
Teach your boys to respect women. Teach your girls that as women - they are ALLOWED to take up space.
Fix it. Become aware of your words. Because we all have the ability and the obligation to fight for the future of our children with simple moments. And we need to consciously choose to be better for them.

[Nebraska Football @HuskerFootball]

Special moment for #63 today on Senior Day.

@NouredinNouili surprised his stepdad during the senior presentation in Memorial, coming out of the tunnel with his last name Ragaller across his back.

[Nebraska Huskers @Huskers]

did ya expect anything other than five?

THE BOB IS OUT OF CONTROL

[Earvin Magic Johnson @MagicJohnson]

There are so many people dressed in all red on the Big Ten Network. I’m blown away! Shoutout to all the Husker fans that showed their support for women’s athletics and the Nebraska Volleyball team. @HuskerVB

[Nebraska Volleyball @HuskerVB]

Outgrew the Coliseum,
packed the Devaney Center
& set our eyes on the Sea of Red.

[Virginia Whidden @vwhidde]

#HUSKERS

[nicklin hickman @HamesNicklin]

truly there is just NO place like Nebraska ❤️‍🔥

[Virginia Whidden @vwhidde]

@CCFCCLA1 Awesome, I’d always wished that I’d done something similar when I first started teaching. You’ll have quite a wall of fame by the end of your teaching career! Great way to recognize your students! ❤️

[Nebraska Men's Basketball @HuskerMBB]

Representing Japan. 👊🇯🇵

@KeiseiTominaga is in action preparing for the FIBA World Cup. Husker Nation is behind you Keisei!

[CBS News @CBSNews]

When high school football player Malachi Coleman learned he could now profit off his name and likeness as an athlete, he immediately knew which cause he'd be putting money he earned towards: the foster care system. https://t.co/gePHZMMchx

[Virginia Whidden @vwhidde]

@DianeSolomonOR Loved reading your article! I’m a retired teacher, as well, and our classrooms can sometimes be a safe haven for students who need to feel respected and heard. I’m also short, only a few inches taller than you. Thanks for your article! ❤️

[Nebraska State Education Association @nsea_org]

RT this pic or use this graphic for your profile picture to show your support for our public schools!

State lawmakers will consider a bill on Friday that would give public dollars to private schools. #neleg #LB753

[Mark Woodley @MarkWoodleyTV]

This is what you get when you ask the sports guy to come in to cover a blizzard in the morning show.