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David Sladkey

Energizing Brain Breaks - 242 views

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  • David Sladkey on 17 Jul 11
     
    Energizing Brain Breaks help students to refocus in the middle of class. They only take 1-2 minutes. Teachers love them because they help get the jitters out of students. They are work well for any student K-12. There are links to websites with videos of students in action doing a brain break.
  • Marsha Ratzel on 17 Jul 11
     
    Brain breaks are the only way my students made it thru the state testing window. It made me realize how important it was to take the pressure off and let them relax a bit.
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
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.
Josh Flores

Brain Rules video | Brain Rules | - 122 views

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assessment self-evaluation student research video brain rules

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    • Josh Flores
      Josh Flores on 16 May 11
       
      Exercise boost brain function. Build stronger brains by incorporating exercise.
    • Josh Flores
      Josh Flores on 16 May 11
       
      You cannot really multi-task.
    • Josh Flores
      Josh Flores on 16 May 11
       
      Research why imagery is so important to incorporate into our learning.
Bob Martin

Brain Games, Brain Fitness & Brain Training - Fitbrains.com - 48 views

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brain games fitness interactive SMARTboard elementary middleschool

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  • Bob Martin on 17 Jun 10
     
    Fun .games to challenge your brain
Martin Burrett

Brains of children with a better physical fitness possess a greater volume of grey matter - 14 views

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  • Martin Burrett on 23 Nov 17
     
    "Researchers from the University of Granada (UGR) have proven, for the first time in history, that physical fitness in children may affect their brain structure, which in turn may have an influence on their academic performance. More specifically, the researchers have confirmed that physical fitness in children (especially aerobic capacity and motor ability) is associated with a greater volume of grey matter in several cortical and subcortical brain regions."
smilex3md

How I Rewired My Brain to Become Fluent in Math - Issue 17: Big Bangs - Nautilus - 2 views

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  • By championing the importance of understanding, teachers can inadvertently set their students up for failure as those students blunder in illusions of competence. As one (failing) engineering student recently told me: “I just don’t see how I could have done so poorly. I understood it when you taught it in class.” My student may have thought he’d understood it at the time, and perhaps he did, but he’d never practiced using the concept to truly internalize it. He had not developed any kind of procedural fluency or ability to apply what he thought he understood.
  • Time after time, professors in mathematics and the sciences have told me that building well-ingrained chunks of expertise through practice and repetition was absolutely vital to their success. Understanding doesn’t build fluency; instead, fluency builds understanding. In fact, I believe that true understanding of a complex subject comes only from fluency.
  • smilex3md on 23 Sep 16
     
    "How I Rewired My Brain to Become Fluent in Math Sorry, education reformers, it's still memorization and repetition we need."
oregonjon

Inside your teenager's scary brain - Macleans.ca - 66 views

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

The High Cost of Neuromyths in Education | Edutopia - 50 views

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education edutopia neuroscience brain research pli personalized learning differentiation critical thinking myths

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  • oregonjon on 04 Feb 15
     
    Learning Styles, Left Brain/Right Brain, and 10% are myths that we need to stop using to guide our teaching. They don't help, and they probably waste money and effort that could be used on things that actually help. You know, like good teaching (pre-assessment, goal-setting, differentiation, and keeping learners in their ZPD).
Roland Gesthuizen

Six ways that artists hack your brain - New Scientist - 73 views

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  • Roland Gesthuizen on 21 Sep 10
     
    Since humankind first put brush to canvas, artists have played with the mind and the senses to create sublime atmospheres and odd impressions. It is only recently, with a blossoming understanding of the way the brain deconstructs images, that neuroscientists and psychologists have finally begun to understand how these tricks work.
Maureen Greenbaum

Optimism Bias: Human Brain May Be Hardwired for Hope -- Printout -- TIME - 62 views

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  • manipulated positive and negative expectations of students while their brains were scanned and tested their performance on cognitive tasks. To induce expectations of success, she primed college students with words such as smart, intelligent and clever just before asking them to perform a test. To induce expectations of failure, she primed them with words like stupid and ignorant. The students performed better after being primed with an affirmative message. Examining the brain-imaging data, Bengtsson found that the students' brains responded differently to the mistakes they made depending on whether they were primed with the word clever or the word stupid. When the mistake followed positive words, she observed enhanced activity in the anterior medial part of the prefrontal cortex (a region that is involved in self-reflection and recollection). However, when the participants were primed with the word stupid, there was no heightened activity after a wrong answer. It appears that after being primed with the word stupid, the brain expected to do poorly and did not show signs of surprise or conflict when it made an error
trisha_poole

BBC News - Language universality idea tested with biology method - 18 views

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  • trisha_poole on 16 Apr 11
     
    A long-standing idea that human languages share universal features that are dictated by human brain structure has been cast into doubt. A study reported in Nature has borrowed methods from evolutionary biology to trace the development of grammar in several language families. The results suggest that features shared across language families evolved independently in each lineage. The authors say cultural evolution, not the brain, drives language development.
Deborah Baillesderr

Resources on Learning and the Brain | Edutopia - 27 views

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  • Deborah Baillesderr on 20 Jun 17
     
    Browse a list of articles, videos, and other links for brain research in education.
anonymous

Stop Telling Your Students To "Pay attention!" | Brain Based Learning | Brain Based Tea... - 194 views

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attention learning brain teaching distraction

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  • ive students a stand up break of 30-90 seconds (the “pause”) to give them mental processing time for the content.
  • “Fast writes” develop focus (save the editing for later).
  • anonymous on 18 Oct 12
     
    This article is pretty cool! Good find!
Amber Bridge

Curiosity Prepares the Braining for Learning - 47 views

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curiosity learning

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  • Amber Bridge on 15 Mar 16
     
    Curiosity Prepares the Braining for Learning https://t.co/akZRq39R18
  • Amber Bridge on 15 Mar 16
     
    Curiosity Prepares the Braining for Learning https://t.co/akZRq39R18
Martin Burrett

The Great Brain Experiment - 76 views

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brain science citizen science app android ipad iphone

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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
anonymous

My Library - 5 views

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  • anonymous on 19 Aug 12
     
    Great for high school students to dislodge their brains or anyone's brain from the comforts of simple thinking.
Kenuvis Romero

Psilocybin (magic mushrooms) - 0 views

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  • The biosinthetic path that allow Psilocybin to be produced by mushrooms is as follow:
  • The several analogyes with triptophan aminoacid, with whom psilocybin has common origines are probably at the base of psilocybin ability to induced psychedelich alteration on humans.
  • Amino acids, including tryptophan, act as building blocks in protein biosynthesis. In addition, tryptophan functions as a biochemical precursor for many compounds like serotonin Serotonin (a neurotransmitter), synthesized via tryptophan hydroxylase. Serotonin, in turn, can be converted to melatonin (a neurohormone), via N-acetyltransferase and 5-hydroxyindole-O-methyltransferase activities
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  • it's been noticed that psilocyn can indirectly raise dopamine concentration withing the basal ganglia.
  • Almost 50% of oral psilocybin is absorbed by stomach and gut; from here is lead to liver, where it's converted in psilocin, pharmacologically active form, that can furtherly be glucoronated and escreted with urine or converted in other psilocinics metabolites.
  • In rats, the median lethal dose (LD50) when administered orally is 280 milligrams per kilogram (mg/kg), approximately one and a half times that of caffeine. When administered intravenously in rabbits, psilocybin's LD50 is approximately 12.5 mg/kg
  • traces of the compund can be detected in unine even after 7 days.
  • Clinical studies show that psilocin concentrations in the plasma of adults average about 8 µg/liter within 2 hours after ingestion of a single 15 mg oral psilocybin dose; psychological effects occur with a blood plasma concentration of 4–6 µg/liter. Psilocybin is about 100 times less potent than LSD on a weight per weight basis, and the physiological effects last about half as long.
  • Within 24 hours from administration 65% of the alucinogen is escreted by urine, while another 15-20% is excreted by bile and feces.
  • Monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOI) have been known to prolong and enhance the effects of psilocybin. Alcohol consumption may enhance the effects of psilocybin, because acetaldehyde, one of the primary breakdown metabolites of consumed alcohol, reacts with biogenic amines present in the body to produce MAOIs related to tetrahydroisoquinoline and β-carboline. Tobacco smokers can also experience more powerful effects with psilocybin, because tobacco smoke exposure decreases levels of MAO in the brain and peripheral organs.
  • This could lead to a lower usage o f glucose, but the same study admitted an increase glucose usage by the whole brain cell, meaning a differente use of this sugar while the drug is having effects.
  • use of MRI (functional magnetic resounance) showed that the decresed blood flow associate with decreasing in neural activity. A simple explanation for this unexpected situation could be the serotoning agonist action of psilocybin, action that seems to be focused more on 5-HT receptors than on 5-HT2A.
  • psilocibyn is able to act as a 5-HT agonist binding directly its receptors.
  • augmented glucose consumption in several brain regions; this lead to the conclusion that psilocybin is some way able to modify the physiological glucosal metabolic rate of our body
  • The strong inibition of the PCC is now thought to be most significant action of psilocybin on neural disaccoppiation
    • Kenuvis Romero
      Kenuvis Romero on 23 Jun 13
       
      Lower brain glucose metabolism is linked with increased capacity for working memory.
  • Psilocybin comprises approximately 1% of the weight of Psilocybe cubensis mushrooms, and so nearly 1.7 kilograms (3.7 lb) of dried mushrooms, or 17 kilograms (37 lb) of fresh mushrooms, would be required for a 60-kilogram (130 lb) person to reach the 280 mg/kg LD50 value.
  • psilocybin can cause anxiety and increased heart rate and BP which is very counter- productive for someone on metoprolol and micardis.
  • propose the possibility to use psilocybin as a palliative therapy for terminal illness like cancer but also as a real antidepressive active principle available for the family of the patient. The rational is foundable in the fact that we usually administer SSRI as antidepressive agents, so psilocibyn sholud be useful in this purpose for its selective agonist action on 5-HT2A receptors
Kenuvis Romero

This is your brain on psilocybin… | The Scicurious Brain, Scientific American... - 0 views

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  • the authors cite a large body of literature characterizing 5-HT2a agonism resulting in pyramidal cell inhibition in cortical areas via excitation of GABAergic interneurons that synapse on pyramidal cells.
  • increased blood deoxygenation levels is concretely correlated with neuronal action-potentions; inhibition of neurons results in less APs and thus less blood flow. BOLD contrasts are the basis of fMRI studies–all of them would be invalidated if this were refuted.
David Sladkey

Give your students a break during the middle of class to help them refocus - 106 views

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energizing brain breaks brainbreaks

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  • David Sladkey on 15 Dec 10
     
    Give a Brain Break every 30 minutes in your class. This Brain Break has the students tapping toes together to a pattern. It takes about 1-2 minutes and then they are done and ready to get back to the class material. There are video examples of the Energizing Brain Break in action.
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