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Robert Ryshke

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

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    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.
Robert Ryshke

101 Fascinating Brain Blogs | OEDb - 1 views

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    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.
Chris Harrow

How Language Affects Counting « How the Brain Learns: The Blog - 3 views

  • 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.
Robert Ryshke

Brain Pickings - 0 views

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    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.
Chris Harrow

The Importance of Frustration in the Creative Process, Animated | Brain Pickings - 4 views

  • 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.
Chris Harrow

Why great ideas come when you aren't trying : Nature News & Comment - 3 views

  • 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.
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    Some evidence that 100% "time on task" might actually be counterproductive if you want to develop creativity.
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    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.
Chris Harrow

What goes into mathematical thinking? - 0 views

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    "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."
Chris Harrow

AFT - A Union of Professionals - Ask the Cognitive Scientist - 0 views

  • "Brain-Based" Learning: More Fiction Than Fact
Chris Harrow

Is Google Making Us Stupid? - Magazine - The Atlantic - 1 views

  • 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.
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    Older article saying technology may be changing our ability to read, think, and produce deep works.
Beth Holland

Edutopia - 1 views

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    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.
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    Beth: One of my favorite sites, good resources, good blogs, and plenty of good ideas under key educational issues. Bob
Robert Ryshke

The Creativity at Work Blog - The interplay of business, art and science - 0 views

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    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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