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Maureen Greenbaum

15 Surprising Discoveries About Learning - InformED : - 52 views

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learning brain

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  • Conscientiousness and Openness have the biggest influence on academic success.
  • people learn better when using multiple, short training episodes rather than one extended session
  • participants who held jobs with higher levels of complexity with data and people, such as management and teaching, had better scores on memory and thinking tests
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  • Students who walked in another experiment doubled their number of novel responses compared with when they were sitting.
  • Making mistakes while learning can benefit memory and lead to the correct answer, but only if the guesses are close-but-no-cigar,
  • . You can improve your learning by expecting to share it with others.
  • Findings suggest that simply telling learners that they would later teach another student changes their mindset enough so that they engage in more effective approaches to learning than did their peers who simply expected a test.
Martha Hickson

How Playing Music Benefits Your Brain More than Any Other Activity | Brain Pickings - 22 views

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brain music

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  • Martha Hickson on 10 Feb 15
     
    Playing music is the brain's equivalent of a full-body workout… Playing an instrument engages practically every area of the brain at once - especially the visual, auditory, and motor cortices.
oregonjon

Inside your teenager's scary brain - Macleans.ca - 65 views

www.macleans.ca/...ide-your-teenagers-scary-brain

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  • oregonjon on 15 Jan 15
     
    Research on brain development in adolescents.
Roy Sovis

Let's Move! How Body Movements Drive Learning Through Technology | MindShift - 32 views

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  • Roy Sovis on 14 Jul 14
     
    "Let's Move! How Body Movements Drive Learning Through Technology"
Wes Bolton

Serious reading takes a hit from online scanning and skimming, researchers say - The Wa... - 88 views

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  • Roland Gesthuizen on 09 Apr 14
     
    "To cognitive neuroscientists, Handscombe's experience is the subject of great fascination and growing alarm. Humans, they warn, seem to be developing digital brains with new circuits for skimming through the torrent of information online. This alternative way of reading is competing with traditional deep reading circuitry developed over several millennia."
  • Wes Bolton on 23 Apr 14
     
    Washington Post article on how the internet is impacting our ability to read and concentrate.
Diego J. Vigueras Gonzalez

Science: A New Map of the Human Brain - WSJ.com - 75 views

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Brain Psychology Neuropsychology character

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  • Diego J. Vigueras Gonzalez on 02 Mar 14
     
    Not Left and Right brains -not cientific Evidence-, but four different brains
Shamisha Williams

GoNoodle - 23 views

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  • Carla Berryman on 26 Feb 14
     
    Great 3-5 minute long brain break activities!
Jon Tanner

Brainy Approaches to Learning | Students at the Center - 65 views

www.studentsatthecenter.org/brainy-approaches-learning

learning brain personalized personalized learning

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  • Jon Tanner on 23 Jan 14
     
    Brain research about learning and how to be student-centered.
Martin Burrett

The Great Brain Experiment - 75 views

www.thegreatbrainexperiment.com

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  • Martin Burrett on 27 Dec 13
     
    This is a fun Android and Apple app from University College London were players complete a range of games to exercise the brain cells and provide researchers with real, but anonymous data to use in their study.
    http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Science
Roland Gesthuizen

Daphne Bavelier: Your brain on video games | Video on TED.com - 61 views

www.ted.com/...your_brain_on_video_games.html

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  • Deborah Baillesderr on 03 Sep 13
     
    Who Knew!
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 02 Feb 14
     
    "How do fast-paced video games affect the brain? Step into the lab with cognitive researcher Daphne Bavelier to hear surprising news about how video games, even action-packed shooter games, can help us learn, focus and, fascinatingly, multitask. Daphne Bavelier studies how the brain adapts to changes in experience, either by nature or by training."
Steven Szalaj

BBC News - Active brain 'keeps dementia at bay' - 37 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...health-23159127

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  • Steven Szalaj on 04 Jul 13
     
    Results of a study published in Neurology that adds weight to the idea that dementia onset can be delayed by lifestyle factors such as reading writing, exercise and diet.
Kris Cody

The Reading Brain in the Digital Age: The Science of Paper versus Screens: Scientific A... - 102 views

www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm

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  • prevented them from zooming out to see a neighborhood, state or country
    • Monica Williams-Mitchell
      Monica Williams-Mitchell on 10 May 13
       
      This explains, in real terms, why I've had so much struggle with online reading! Very interesting article.
  • Because of these preferences—and because getting away from multipurpose screens improves concentration—people consistently say that when they really want to dive into a text, they read it on paper
    • Kris Cody
      Kris Cody on 11 May 13
       
      This is backed up by a recent article: Faris, Michael J., and Stuart A. Selber. "E-Book Issues In Composition: A Partial Assessment And Perspective For Teachers." Composition Forum 24.(2011): ERIC. Web. 31 Mar. 2013.
  • Surveys and consumer reports also suggest that the sensory experiences typically associated with reading—especially tactile experiences—matter to people more than one might assume.
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  • When reading a paper book, one can feel the paper and ink and smooth or fold a page with one's fingers; the pages make a distinctive sound when turned; and underlining or highlighting a sentence with ink permanently alters the paper's chemistry.
  • discernible size, shape and weight.
  • Although many old and recent studies conclude that people understand what they read on paper more thoroughly than what they read on screens, the differences are often small. Some experiments, however, suggest that researchers should look not just at immediate reading comprehension, but also at long-term memory.
  • When taking the quiz, volunteers who had read study material on a monitor relied much more on remembering than on knowing, whereas students who read on paper depended equally on remembering and knowing.
  • E-ink is easy on the eyes because it reflects ambient light just like a paper book, but computer screens, smartphones and tablets like the iPad shine light directly into people's faces.
  • the American Optometric Association officially recognizes computer vision syndrome.
  • People who took the test on a computer scored lower and reported higher levels of stress and tiredness than people who completed it on paper.
  • Although people in both groups performed equally well on the READ test, those who had to scroll through the continuous text did not do as well on the attention and working-memory tests.
  • Subconsciously, many people may think of reading on a computer or tablet as a less serious affair than reading on paper. Based on a detailed 2005 survey of 113 people in northern California, Ziming Liu of San Jose State University concluded that people reading on screens take a lot of shortcuts—they spend more time browsing, scanning and hunting for keywords compared with people reading on paper, and are more likely to read a document once, and only once.
  • When reading on screens, people seem less inclined to engage in what psychologists call metacognitive learning regulation—strategies such as setting specific goals, rereading difficult sections and checking how much one has understood along the way
  • Perhaps she and her peers will grow up without the subtle bias against screens that seems to lurk in the minds of older generations.
  • They think of using an e-book, not owning an e-book,"
  • Participants in her studies say that when they really like an electronic book, they go out and get the paper version.
  • When it comes to intensively reading long pieces of plain text, paper and ink may still have the advantage. But text is not the only way to read.
  • Monica Williams-Mitchell on 10 May 13
     
    it is difficult to see any one passage in the context of the entire text.
  • Kris Cody on 11 May 13
     
    it is difficult to see any one passage in the context of the entire text.
Steven Szalaj

Your Phone vs. Your Heart - NYTimes.com - 3 views

www.nytimes.com/...your-phone-vs-your-heart.html

Brain Heart Emotions Research digital

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  • Steven Szalaj on 24 Mar 13
     
    How our face-to-face time creates in us the ability to sympathize and grow our relationships, and how not being "present" with those whom we are physically present is a detriment.
Michael Sheehan

Learning Never Stops: RSA Animate - Thought Provoking Videos - 4 views

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learning videos education economics behavior brain high school college

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  • Michael Sheehan on 18 Feb 13
     
    A thought provoking video collection on economics, education, and human behavior. Could be used in high school and college level courses to promote class discussion.
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