Skip to main content

Diigo Home
Home/ Classroom 2.0/ Group items tagged memory

Rss Feed Group items tagged

Filter: All | Bookmarks | Topics Simple Middle
Sheryl A. McCoy

Bill Moyers Journal . Howard Zinn | PBS - 6 views

www.pbs.org/...profile.html

moyers zinn Howard_Zinn people American History American_Memory memory democracy

shared by Sheryl A. McCoy on 12 Dec 09 - Snapshot
  • Sheryl A. McCoy
    Sheryl A. McCoy on 12 Dec 09
     
    "new documentary directed by Matt Damon which is airing on The History Channel. Find out more about some of those voices below, and delve further into American history through the JOURNAL's coverage of American history on-air and online."

    go Howard Zinn
  • Sheryl A. McCoy
    Sheryl A. McCoy on 12 Dec 09
     
    This is an excellent resource for teaching about the need for PARTICIPATION in a participatory government.
Tero Toivanen

Music Improves Brain Function | LiveScience - 18 views

www.livescience.com/...091106-isns-music-brain.html

music improve brain function training attention memory learning

shared by Tero Toivanen on 09 Nov 09 - Snapshot
  • Laurel Trainor, director of the Institute for Music and the Mind at
    McMaster University in West Hamilton, Ontario, and colleagues compared
    preschool children who had taken music lessons with those who did not.
    Those with some training showed larger brain responses on a number of
    sound recognition tests given to the children. Her research indicated
    that musical training appears to modify the brain's auditory cortex.
  • Even a year or two of music training leads
    to enhanced levels of memory and attention when measured by the same
    type of tests that monitor electrical and magnetic impulses in the
    brain.
  • “We therefore hypothesize that musical training (but not necessarily
    passive listening to music) affects attention and memory, which
    provides a mechanism whereby musical training might lead to better
    learning across a number of domains," Trainor said.
  • ...5 more annotations...
  • Trainor suggested that the reason for this is that the motor and
    listening skills needed to play an instrument in concert with other
    people appears to heavily involve attention, memory and the ability to
    inhibit actions. Merely listening passively to music to Mozart -- or
    any other composer -- does not produce the same changes in attention
    and memory.
  • Harvard University researcher Gottfried Schlaug has also studied the
    cognitive effects of musical training. Schlaug and his colleagues found
    a correlation between early-childhood training in music and enhanced
    motor and auditory skills as well as improvements in verbal ability and
    nonverbal reasoning.

  • The correlation between music training and language development is even more striking for dyslexic children.



    "[The findings] suggest that a music intervention that strengthens
    the basic auditory music perception skills of children with dyslexia
    may also remediate some of their language deficits." Schlaug said.

  • Shahin's main findings are that the changes triggered by listening
    to musical sound increases with age and the greatest increase occur
    between age 10 and 13. This most likely indicates this as being a
    sensitive period for music and speech acquisition.
  • passive listening to music seems to help a person perform certain
    cognitive tests, at least in the short run. Actual music lessons for
    kids, however, leads to a longer lasting cognitive success.
  • Tero Toivanen
    Tero Toivanen on 09 Nov 09
     
    Even a year or two of music training leads to enhanced levels of memory and attention when measured by the same type of tests that monitor electrical and magnetic impulses in the brain.
Tero Toivanen

Getting It Wrong: Surprising Tips on How to Learn: Scientific American - 37 views

www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm

research learning memory cognition errors

shared by Tero Toivanen on 25 Oct 09 - Snapshot
  • research by Nate Kornell, Matthew Hays and Robert Bjork at U.C.L.A. that recently appeared in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition reveals that this worry is misplaced. In fact, they found, learning becomes better if conditions are arranged so that students make errors.
  • People remember things better, longer, if they are given very challenging tests on the material, tests at which they are bound to fail. In a series of experiments, they showed that if students make an unsuccessful attempt to retrieve information before receiving an answer, they remember the information better than in a control condition in which they simply study the information. Trying and failing to retrieve the answer is actually helpful to learning. It’s an idea that has obvious applications for education, but could be useful for anyone who is trying to learn new material of any kind.
  • Tero Toivanen
    Tero Toivanen on 25 Oct 09
     
    Research by Nate Kornell, Matthew Hays and Robert Bjork at U.C.L.A. that recently appeared in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition reveals that this worry is misplaced. In fact, they found, learning becomes better if conditions are arranged so that students make errors.
Tero Toivanen

Music and the Brain - 0 views

www.cerebromente.org.br/...musica.html

music brain learning memory

shared by Tero Toivanen on 16 May 09 - Snapshot
  • A
    little known fact about Einstein is that when he was young he did extremely
    poor in school. His grade school teachers told his parents to take him
    out of school because he was "too stupid to learn" and it would be a waste
    of resources for the school to invest time and energy in his education.
    The school suggested that his parents get Albert an easy, manual labor
    job as soon as they could.
  • Instead of following the school's advice, Albert's parents bought him a
    violin. Albert became good at the violin. Music was the key that helped
    Albert Einstein become one of the smartest men who has ever lived. Einstein
    himself says that the reason he was so smart is because he played the violin.
    He loved the music of Mozart and Bach the most. A friend of Einstein, G.J.
    Withrow, said that the way Einstein figured out his problems and equations
    was by improvising on the violin.
  • Another example of how rhythm orders
    movement is an autistic boy who could not tie his shoes. He learned how
    on the second try when the task of tying his shoes was put to a song. The
    rhythm helped organize his physical movements in time.
  • ...15 more annotations...
  • Classical music from the baroque period causes the heart
    beat and pulse rate to relax to the beat of the music. As the body becomes
    relaxed and alert, the mind is able to concentrate more easily. Furthermore,
    baroque music decreases blood pressure and enhances the ability to learn.
    Music affects the amplitude and frequency of brain waves, which can be
    measured by an electro-encephalogram. Music also affects breathing rate
    and electrical resistance of the skin. It has been observed to cause the
    pupils to dilate, increase blood pressure, and increase the heart rate.
  • Mozart's music and baroque music, with a 60 beats per minute
    beat pattern, activate the left and right brain. The simultaneous left
    and right brain action maximizes learning and retention of information.
    The information being studied activates the left brain while the music
    activates the right brain. Also, activities which engage both sides of
    the brain at the same time, such as playing an instrument or singing, causes
    the brain to be more capable of processing information.
  • According
    to The Center for New Discoveries in Learning, learning potential can be
    increased a minimum of five times by using this 60 beats per minute music.
  • Dr. Lozanov's system
    involved using certain classical music pieces from the baroque period which
    have around a 60 beats per minute pattern. He has proven that foreign languages
    can be learned with 85-100% efficiency in only thirty days by using these
    baroque pieces. His students had a recall accuracy rate of almost 100%
    even after not reviewing the material for four years.
  • Group 1 was read the words with Handel's Water Music in the background.
    They were also asked to imagine the words. Group 2 was read the same words
    also with Handel's Water Music in the background. Group 2 was not asked
    to imagine the words. Group 3 was only read the words, was not given any
    background music, and was also not asked to imagine the words. The results
    from the first two tests showed that groups 1 and 2 had much better scores
    than group 3. The results from the third test, a week later, showed that
    group 1 performed much better than groups 2 or 3.
  • One simple way students can improve test
    scores is by listening to certain types of music such as Mozart's
    Sonata for Two Piano's in D Major     before taking a test. This type of
    music releases neurons in the brain which help the body to relax.
  • William Balach, Kelly Bowman, and Lauri
    Mohler, all from Pennsylvania State University, studied the effects of
    music genre and tempo on memory retention. They had four groups learn vocabulary
    words using one of four instrumental pieces - slow classical, slow jazz,
    fast classical, and fast jazz.
  • Surprisingly, the results showed that
    changing the genre had no effect on recall but changing the tempo decreased
    recall.
  • One key ingredient to the order of music from the baroque and
    classical periods is math. This is realized by the body and the human mind
    performs better when listening to this ordered music.
  • George recognized that Saul overcame his problems
    by using special music. With this story in mind King George asked George
    Frederick Handel to write some special music for him that would help him
    in the same way that music helped Saul. Handel wrote his Water Music for
    this purpose.
  • Dr. Ballam goes on to say that, "The human mind shuts down
    after three or four repetitions of a rhythm, or a melody, or a harmonic
    progression."
  • Bob Larson, a Christian minister and former rock musician,
    remembers that in the 70's teens would bring raw eggs to a rock concert
    and put them on the front of the stage. The eggs would be hard boiled by
    the music before the end of the concert and could be eaten. Dr. Earl W.
    Flosdorf and Dr. Leslie A. Chambers showed that proteins in a liquid medium
    were coagulated when subjected to piercing high-pitched sounds
  • Rock
    music was played in one of the boxes while Bach's music was played in the
    other box. The rats could choose to switch boxes through a tunnel that
    connected both boxes. Almost all of the rats chose to go into the box with
    the Bach music even after the type of music was switched from one box to
    the other.
  • She found that the plants
    grew well for almost every type of music except rock and acid rock.     Jazz,
    classical, and     Ravi Shankar turned out to be the most helpful to the plants.
    However, the plants tested with the rock music withered and died. The acid
    rock music also had negative effects on the plant growth.
  • One cannot deny the power of music. High school
    students who study music have higher grade point averages that those who
    don't. These students also develop faster physically. Student listening
    skills are also improved through music education. The top three schools
    in America all place a great emphasis on music and the arts.     Hungary, Japan,
    and the     Netherlands, the top three academic countries in the world, all
    place a great emphasis on music education and participation in music. The
    top engineers from Silicon Valley are all musicians. Napoleon understood
    the enormous power of music. He summed it up by saying, "Give me control
    over he who shapes the music of a nation, and I care not who makes the
    laws" .
  • Tero Toivanen
    Tero Toivanen on 16 May 09
     
    Mozart's music and baroque music, with a 60 beats per minute beat pattern, activate the left and right brain. The simultaneous left and right brain action maximizes learning and retention of information. The information being studied activates the left brain while the music activates the right brain. Also, activities which engage both sides of the brain at the same time, such as playing an instrument or singing, causes the brain to be more capable of processing information.
Jeff Johnson

Memiary, the weightless pocket diary - 0 views

www.memiary.com

diary Memory web2.0 Memiary Personal fun

shared by Jeff Johnson on 09 Nov 08 - Snapshot
  • Jeff Johnson
    Jeff Johnson on 09 Nov 08
     
    Record up to five memories of your day and make them memorable forever. Memiary is the weightless pocket diary.
Juan Quintero

Your Outboard Brain Knows All - 0 views

www.wired.com/...st_thompson

articulos conocimiento memoria memory technology tecnología tic´s

shared by Juan Quintero on 25 Jun 08 - Snapshot
  • Juan Quintero
    Juan Quintero on 25 Jun 08
     
    Your Outboard Brain Knows All
1 - 7 of 7
Showing 20▼ items per page