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Martin Burrett

Evidence of changes to children's brain rhythms following 'brain training' - 0 views

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  • Martin Burrett on 26 Aug 16
     
    New research questions the strong claims that have been made about the benefits of 'brain training' - enhanced mental skills, a boost to education, improved clinical outcomes and sharper everyday functioning. This new study found evidence that 'brain training' changed brain signalling but no indication of other benefits...
Dean Mantz

50 Brain Facts Every Educator Should Know | Associate Degree - Facts and Information - 30 views

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  • Dean Mantz on 05 Feb 10
     
    Facts about the human brain that will help with education.
Vicki Davis

Successful Teaching: Seeing the Student Within - 0 views

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shared by Vicki Davis on 17 Oct 08 - Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 17 Oct 08
     
    Loonyhiker has a MUST read post about a child who was in gifted programs and had a brain trauma and then, was treated by his teachers as being lazy because they couldn't see on the outside that any thing was different. It breaks my heart but is a story to share with people to understand the brain. Don't automatically assume a child is lazy, understand that the brain is something you cannot see and learning disabilities, ADHD, and brain issues are tough to understand.
  • Vicki Davis on 17 Oct 08
     
    Great thoughts from Pat (loony hiker) about a child that helps us better understand learningdisabilities.
Ed Webb

What's Wrong With the Teenage Mind? - WSJ.com - 19 views

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  • Adolescence has always been troubled, but for reasons that are somewhat mysterious, puberty is now kicking in at an earlier and earlier age. A leading theory points to changes in energy balance as children eat more and move less.
  • Recent studies in the neuroscientist B.J. Casey's lab at Cornell University suggest that adolescents aren't reckless because they underestimate risks, but because they overestimate rewards—or, rather, find rewards more rewarding than adults do. The reward centers of the adolescent brain are much more active than those of either children or adults. Think about the incomparable intensity of first love, the never-to-be-recaptured glory of the high-school basketball championship. What teenagers want most of all are social rewards, especially the respect of their peers. In a recent study by the developmental psychologist Laurence Steinberg at Temple University, teenagers did a simulated high-risk driving task while they were lying in an fMRI brain-imaging machine. The reward system of their brains lighted up much more when they thought another teenager was watching what they did—and they took more risks.
  • What happens when children reach puberty earlier and adulthood later? The answer is: a good deal of teenage weirdness. Fortunately, developmental psychologists and neuroscientists are starting to explain the foundations of that weirdness.
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  • contemporary children have very little experience with the kinds of tasks that they'll have to perform as grown-ups. Children have increasingly little chance to practice even basic skills like cooking and caregiving. Contemporary adolescents and pre-adolescents often don't do much of anything except go to school. Even the paper route and the baby-sitting job have largely disappeared.
  • first with the industrial revolution and then even more dramatically with the information revolution, children have come to take on adult roles later and later. Five hundred years ago, Shakespeare knew that the emotionally intense combination of teenage sexuality and peer-induced risk could be tragic—witness "Romeo and Juliet." But, on the other hand, if not for fate, 13-year-old Juliet would have become a wife and mother within a year or two.
  • This control system depends much more on learning. It becomes increasingly effective throughout childhood and continues to develop during adolescence and adulthood, as we gain more experience. You come to make better decisions by making not-so-good decisions and then correcting them. You get to be a good planner by making plans, implementing them and seeing the results again and again. Expertise comes with experience.
  • Wide-ranging, flexible and broad learning, the kind we encourage in high-school and college, may actually be in tension with the ability to develop finely-honed, controlled, focused expertise in a particular skill, the kind of learning that once routinely took place in human societies. For most of our history, children have started their internships when they were seven, not 27
  • experience shapes the brain. People often think that if some ability is located in a particular part of the brain, that must mean that it's "hard-wired" and inflexible. But, in fact, the brain is so powerful precisely because it is so sensitive to experience. It's as true to say that our experience of controlling our impulses make the prefrontal cortex develop as it is to say that prefrontal development makes us better at controlling our impulses. Our social and cultural life shapes our biology.
Vicki Davis

Brain breaks kids love - GoNoodle - 10 views

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shared by Vicki Davis on 04 Feb 14 - No Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 04 Feb 14
     
    I don't know that I'd market "brain breaks" as a way to get "classroom control" but I guess that is what some teachers want. I am fascinated by how Brain Breaks are trending on Twitter as many teachers are using them so I guess I"m going to sign up for Go Noodle and see what the fuss is about. Any of you using this tool/ website?
Angela Maiers

Five Checkpoints to Brain Based Learning - Brain Leaders and Learners - 1 views

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  • Angela Maiers on 16 Sep 08
     
    Great post on the brain and learning.
Angela Maiers

» Learning & the Brain: Resources for Educators   « Brain Fitness Revolution ... - 1 views

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  • Angela Maiers on 21 Jul 08
     
    Brain Based Education
Emily Vickery

Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School | Brain... - 1 views

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  • The brain is an amazing thing. Most of us have no idea what’s really going on inside our heads. Yet brain scientists have uncovered details every business leader, parent, and teacher should know.
  • Emily Vickery on 24 Jun 08
     
    Great website for application to learning.
Maggie Verster

What educators can learn from brain research - 1 views

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  • Maggie Verster on 28 Jul 09
     
    Who would have thought??? ;-) The brain can still learn new concepts after various ages, and that every student can be taught many different ways. In a sense, the brain can be rewired.
Dave Truss

Edge In Frankfurt: THE AGE OF THE INFORMAVORE- A Talk with Frank Schirrmacher - 3 views

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  • Dave Truss on 07 Nov 09
     
    thinking itself somehow leaves the brain and uses a platform outside of the human body. And that, of course, is the Internet and it's the cloud. Very soon we will have the brain in the cloud. And the raises the question about the importance of thoughts. For centuries, what was important for me was decided in my brain. But now, apparently, it will be decided somewhere else.
Martin Burrett

Brains of children with a better physical fitness possess a greater volume of grey matter - 0 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."
Dave Truss

Your Brain on Computers - Attached to Technology and Paying a Price - NYTimes.com - 9 views

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  • Dave Truss on 07 Jun 10
     
    While many people say multitasking makes them more productive, research shows otherwise. Heavy multitaskers actually have more trouble focusing and shutting out irrelevant information, scientists say, and they experience more stress. And scientists are discovering that even after the multitasking ends, fractured thinking and lack of focus persist. In other words, this is also your brain off computers. "The technology is rewiring our brains,"
Brian C. Smith

The Creativity Crisis - Newsweek - 15 views

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      anonymous on 19 Jul 10
       
      If you've ever seen or heard Raif Esquith speak then you know how much he values music with young children. Watch this clip: http://www.tubechop.com/watch/79846
  • The lore of pop psychology is that creativity occurs on the right side of the brain. But we now know that if you tried to be creative using only the right side of your brain, it’d be like living with ideas perpetually at the tip of your tongue, just beyond reach
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      Brian C. Smith on 26 Jul 10
       
      Hello, Mr. Pink. Are you reading?
  • those who diligently practice creative activities learn to recruit their brains’ creative networks quicker and better. A lifetime of consistent habits gradually changes the neurological pattern.
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  • The home-game version of this means no longer encouraging kids to spring straight ahead to the right answer
  • The new view is that creativity is part of normal brain function.
  • “As a child, I never had an identity as a ‘creative person,’ ” Schwarzrock recalls. “But now that I know, it helps explain a lot of what I felt and went through.”
  • In China there has been widespread education reform to extinguish the drill-and-kill teaching style. Instead, Chinese schools are also adopting a problem-based learning approach.
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  • Bill Guinee on 13 Jul 10
     
    Very interesting article from Newsweek about how creativity works in the brain, and how it can be trained in an educational setting. It describes a "crisis" trend where creativity scores in America are decreasing.
Jeff Johnson

BBC NEWS | Health | Sleeping soundly 'boosts memory' - 0 views

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  • Jeff Johnson on 16 Jul 08
     
    Researchers found sleep appears to have a dramatic impact on the way the brain functions the next day. It appears to strengthen connections between nerve cells in the brain - a process key to both learning and memory.
Angela Maiers

growing changing learning creating: Breaking the brain rules - 0 views

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  • Angela Maiers on 27 Jul 08
     
    Great post w/ new take on "Brain Rules"
Angela Maiers

Presentation Zen: Brain rules for PowerPoint & Keynote presenters - 0 views

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shared by Angela Maiers on 13 Jun 08 - Cached
  • Angela Maiers on 13 Jun 08
     
    Brain Rules meets presentation zen! Great tips and reminders for presentation perfection!
Dean Mantz

Brain-based learning, ideas, and materials - 16 views

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  • David Hilton on 14 Jan 10
     
    Site is dedicated to bringing the insights of brain science to the classroom. A laudable goal, it seems to me.
Ted Sakshaug

BrainBashers : Puzzles and Brain Teasers - 0 views

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  • Ted Sakshaug on 29 Apr 09
     
    an exciting collection of brain teasers, puzzles, riddles, games and optical illusions. With thousands of brain teasers and puzzles, over one hundred awards, BrainBashers is updated with optical illusions and games regularly and has 5 new puzzles added every other week.
anonymous

10 Big Differences Between Men's and Women's Brains | Masters of Healthcare - 0 views

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  • anonymous on 16 Jun 09
     
    Scientists have discovered that there are actually differences in the way women's and men's brains are structured and in the way they react to events and stimuli.
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