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Learning and Brain conference in Atlanta with David Sousa - 4 views

www.sde.com/...seminar-details.asp brain-based professional development learning
shared by Robert Ryshke on 18 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • Robert Ryshke on 18 Aug 11
     
    SDE will be bringing David Sousa to Atlanta for a 1-day workshop on the Brain and Differentiation. Looks interesting, maybe for all those cohort members involved in Learning and the Brain.
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101 Fascinating Brain Blogs | OEDb - 1 views

oedb.org/...101_fascinating_brain_blogs Brain Learning Blogs
shared by Robert Ryshke on 16 Sep 11 - Cached
  • Robert Ryshke on 16 Sep 11
     
    Whether you are a specialist in the field of neuropsychology or just love reading about how the human brain works, there are plenty of interesting blogs on the Internet to help you find out more. In order to make it easier to for you to discover great blogs, the following list is categorized for easy browsing.
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How Language Affects Counting « How the Brain Learns: The Blog - 3 views

howthebrainlearns.wordpress.com/...how-language-affects-counting language brain counting international
shared by Chris Harrow on 17 May 12 - No Cached
  • Differences in classroom instruction and curriculum may be partly to blame. But cultural differences in computational ability may have their roots in the words that different cultures use to represent numbers.
  • There are some tricks that adults can use to increase digit memory span. These tricks can also be taught to young students at the appropriate age.
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Brain Pickings - 0 views

www.brainpickings.org Creativity
shared by Robert Ryshke on 24 Sep 11 - Cached
  • Robert Ryshke on 24 Sep 11
     
    Reverse-engineering serendipity, or what ice skating collisions have to do with fish market romance. You might recall Sophie Blackall, known for her distinctive children's book illustration, as one of the brains and brushes behind these brilliant design makeovers of the mundane.
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The Importance of Frustration in the Creative Process, Animated | Brain Pickings - 4 views

www.brainpickings.org/...rosenberg-jonah-lehrer-imagine creativity frustration teaching learning
shared by Chris Harrow on 27 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • When we tell stories about creativity, we tend to leave out this phase. We neglect to mention those days when we wanted to quit, when we believed that our problem was impossible. Instead, we skip straight to the breakthrough. We tell the happy ending first.
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Why great ideas come when you aren't trying : Nature News & Comment - 3 views

www.nature.com/...when-you-aren-t-trying-1.10678 creativity mind neuroscience wandering
shared by Chris Harrow on 26 May 12 - No Cached
  • A study now suggests that simply taking a break does not bring on inspiration — rather, creativity is fostered by tasks that allow the mind to wander.
  • From an evolutionary perspective, mind-wandering seems totally counterproductive and has been viewed as dysfunctional because it compromises people’s performance in physical activities. However, Baird’s work shows that allowing the brain to enter this state when it is considering complex problems can have real benefits. Zoning out may have aided humans when survival depended on creative solutions.
  • Chris Harrow on 26 May 12
     
    Some evidence that 100% "time on task" might actually be counterproductive if you want to develop creativity.
  • Ted Sadtler on 27 May 12
     
    Thanks Chris. I'm currently reading Jonah Lehrer's "Imagine: How Creativity Works." lots of tie-ins with this research (Kounios is one of his main sources). I wonder if we can build such mind- wandering into our classes...do physics labs allow for "deliberate zoning out time"? Probably not.
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What goes into mathematical thinking? - 0 views

www.aft.org/...willingham.pdf Daniel Willingham Learning math brain
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  • Chris Harrow on 02 Jun 12
     
    "So, learning math is somewhat like learning to read: we can do it, but it takes time and effort, and requires mastering increasingly complex skills and con- tent. Just about everyone will get to the point where they can read a serious newspaper, and just about everyone will get to the point where they can do high school-level algebra and geometry-even if not everyone wants to reach the point of comprehending James Joyce's Ulysses or solving partial differential equations."
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AFT - A Union of Professionals - Ask the Cognitive Scientist - 0 views

www.aft.org/...willingham.cfm Daniel Willingham Learning Myths
shared by Chris Harrow on 02 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • "Brain-Based" Learning: More Fiction Than Fact
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Is Google Making Us Stupid? - Magazine - The Atlantic - 1 views

www.theatlantic.com/...6868 google technology brain attention information thinking
shared by Chris Harrow on 22 Jan 12 - Cached
  • media are not just passive channels of information. They supply the stuff of thought, but they also shape the process of thought.
  • what the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation
  • Thanks to the ubiquity of text on the Internet, not to mention the popularity of text-messaging on cell phones, we may well be reading more today than we did in the 1970s or 1980s, when television was our medium of choice. But it’s a different kind of reading, and behind it lies a different kind of thinking—perhaps even a new sense of the self. “
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  • “For us, working on search is a way to work on artificial intelligence.”
  • In the quiet spaces opened up by the sustained, undistracted reading of a book, or by any other act of contemplation, for that matter, we make our own associations, draw our own inferences and analogies, foster our own ideas. Deep reading, as Maryanne Wolf argues, is indistinguishable from deep thinking.
  • Chris Harrow on 22 Jan 12
     
    Older article saying technology may be changing our ability to read, think, and produce deep works.
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Edutopia - 1 views

edutopia.org professional development project-based brain-based
shared by Beth Holland on 19 Aug 11 - Cached
  • Beth Holland on 19 Aug 11
     
    Sponsored by the George Lucas Education Foundation, this is a great resource for research as well as case studies of best practices. They have a feature section on Project Based Learning.
  • Robert Ryshke on 01 Sep 11
     
    Beth: One of my favorite sites, good resources, good blogs, and plenty of good ideas under key educational issues. Bob
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The Creativity at Work Blog - The interplay of business, art and science - 0 views

www.creativityatwork.com/blog
shared by Robert Ryshke on 24 Sep 11 - Cached
  • Robert Ryshke on 24 Sep 11
     
    Join me for a one or two- day workshop on Whole Brain Thinking: Cultivate 21st Century Creativity and Leadership at Royal Roads University, Victoria, BC Wednesday & Thursday, November 30 - December 1, 2011 or Thursday, May 31 or Thursday & Friday, May 31 - June 1, 2012 Times: 9 am - 5 pm Cost: One day $225 or Two days $350 (both are tax exempt) Recent surveys indicate skills in critical thinking, creativity, communication, collaboration and innovation are crucial for achieving success in a global economy.
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