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Tero Toivanen

Music Improves Brain Function | LiveScience - 18 views

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

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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.
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  • 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.
Jessica Becerra

Team WhiteBoarding with Twiddla - Painless Team Collaboration for the Web - 0 views

www.twiddla.com

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shared by Jessica Becerra on 12 Apr 08 - Snapshot
  • Mark up websites, graphics, and photos, or start brainstorming on a blank canvas. Browse the web with your friends or make that conference call more productive than ever. No plug-ins, downloads, or firewall voodoo - it's all here, ready to go when you are. Browser-agnostic, user-friendly.
  • Don't like to sign up for stuff? No worries! You don't need an account to use Twiddla
    - and neither does anybody else. The people you invite to meetings will never see so much as a login screen.
    You've got work to do. We'll stay out of your way.
  • Danny Nicholson
    Danny Nicholson on 13 Jul 08
     
    Twiddla is a free no-setup, web-based meeting playground. Mark up websites, graphics, and photos, or start brainstorming on a blank canvas. Voice and Text chat too!
  • Jeff Johnson
    Jeff Johnson on 26 Jan 09
     
    Mark up websites, graphics, and photos, or start brainstorming on a blank canvas. Browse the web with your friends or make that conference call more productive than ever. No plug-ins, downloads, or firewall voodoo - it's all here, ready to go when you are. Browser-agnostic, user-friendly.
  • Jessica Becerra
    Jessica Becerra on 24 Sep 09
     
    Twiddla is a free, no-setup, web-based meeting playground. Mark up websites, graphics, and photos, or start brainstorming on a blank canvas. Voice and Text chat too!
Isabelle Jones

Blog Companion: Technology Tidbits V.3 - 0 views

www.bookrix.com/anion-technology-tidbits-v-iii

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shared by Isabelle Jones on 15 Aug 09 - Snapshot
  • Isabelle Jones
    Isabelle Jones on 15 Aug 09
     
    focus on multimedia, audio, video and presentation applications.
Sharon Williams

SMART Board Revolution - A Revolution in Education - 0 views

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shared by Sharon Williams on 26 Apr 08 - Snapshot
  • One of the benefits of having an Interactive Whiteboard in the classroom (or
    even just a data projector) is the opportunity to display full colour high
    quality images instead of grainy acetates or posters. With a powerful image you
    can really add ...
Tom Daccord

EdTechTeacher Summer 2009 Technology Workshops & Programs - 0 views

edtechteacher.org/workshops.html

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shared by Tom Daccord on 07 Jun 09 - Snapshot
  • Tom Daccord
    Tom Daccord on 07 Jun 09
     
    We have partnered with Boston University School of Education and Noble & Greenough School to offer an incredible group of educational technology experts who will lead a series of innovative hands-on summer workshops in Boston. Join educators from around the world who come to Boston each summer for a memorable and inspiring educational experience.
Peter Kimmich

Medical Training - 0 views

www.medical-training.info

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shared by Peter Kimmich on 06 May 09 - Snapshot
  • Peter Kimmich
    Peter Kimmich on 06 May 09
     
    Information and resources for medical training.
acer view54

FaceIt - 0 views

www.faceitproject.org

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shared by acer view54 on 14 Dec 08 - Snapshot
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    acer view54 on 14 Dec 08
     
    The European projectFACE IT! offers training opportunities and materials for the provision of Family Learning programs aiming to promote and develop Active Citizenship and Participatory Democracy.
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