Learning Sciences

This study conducted in Standford University School of Medicine reveals that brain scans from 8-year-old children can predict gains in their mathematical ability over the next six years. That is a great development to learn students' math ability and provide proper type and level of education accordingly.

This video is quite informative and illustrative for explaining brain's plasiticity and connectivity. It also establishes an analogy between Internet and Child's Brain, which worths to watch.

Hello guys, Here is a link you can find some general neuromyths on and the truths related to those myths. Enjoy it!

This is an online course for educators who want to understand how their students learn by helping them connect brain research into classroom practice. This course sheds light on some current issues related to neuroscience. I recommend you have a look at it :)

Dear Seda, I like this website too much, thank you :)

Its a whole course. Valuable resource for teachers. Similar examples, particularly in Turkey, can bridge the gap between neuroscience findings with the teaching practice.

This product uses the signals to interpret player facial expressions in real-time. It provides a natural enhancement to interaction by allowing characters to come to life. When a user smiles, their avatar can mimic the expression even before they are aware of their own feelings. You can also examine folowing link: http://www.emotiv.com/insight.php

This is really impressive. They have used brain signals to control computer. First Computer learns brain signals (pulling a cube in the screen) when person thinks it, then, a person can use that signal to control anything.

This is amazing. I cannot imagine all the gaming possibilities. Such a system should change the whole human computer interaction in a gaming platform.

One of the living science legends, Ramachandran, who is well known for his studies in neuroscience, talks about the influence of 'mirror neurons' in our lives. This video has some implications for complex social learning and for interconnectedness among people happening as a result of our interacting brains.

and so many connections to cultural learning. I am curious to read more about his work, like if there is any research on the developmental stages of humans and the development of mirror neurons over the years.

http://williamlspencer.com/mirrorneurons.pdf Hocam, this is not exactly what you are looking for but it has some answers that may help you expand your knowledge in this issue.

As you've learned from the article by Goswami, there are some pervasive 'neuromyths' around. This TedEd video explains one of them besides providing some key points about brain. By the way, it is being a very 'brainy' week for me. :)

Through this link you can find some intriguing answers to the question "How can you employ Brain-Targeted Teaching methods in your classroom right now?"

Hi all, "Genes to Cognition (G2C) Online is about modern neuroscience. It focuses on cognitive disorders, cognitive processes, and research approaches." What makes this website interesting is its dynamic networks that teach a lot about brain and neuroscience. What is more interesting about the website is 3-D Brain at the top right corner of the site. You can explore every single part of brain via that interactive model. Moreover, you can download it as a free application to your mobile phone through Google Play or App Store. Have fun with it! :)

Yasin, I liked to much this application, it is too enjoyable, thank you :)

This is a great article from The Guardian about the encoding of colors in our brains and how it is related to our memories.

The researchers think the presence of some narcissists helps generate healthy in-group competition =)

Theories, Models, and Frameworks of Learning for Educational Research and Practice. This knowledge base features learning theories, models, and frameworks that address how people learn. Each one is summarized and discussed in an easy-to-read, easy-to-understand format. This site is useful for students and scholars of various fields, including educational psychology, instructional design, digital media and learning, and more.

I found this short movie quite interesting to share with you. It has a lot of elements related to challenges, motivation and being a community. Enjoy it!

Thanks.. Seeing opportunity where a visible problem lies is a good habit.

This study is the latest one, to my knowledge, conducted in English language teaching field in Turkey in terms of TPACK. I do not think that this study is a powerful one because it fails to provide a vivid picture in terms of preservice EFL teachers' TPACK competencies. Nevertheless, it is a fresh one, it has been conducted in our country and it explores my target population's competencies: preservice EFL teachers. :) By the way, you can have an access to the full text through METUnique search. You're welcome. :)

"The results of the research suggest that males' technological knowledge was higher than females; however, females were better than males in pedagogical knowledge. Moreover, no significant difference was found between TPACK mean and academic achievement in terms of the correlation between TPACK scale and academic achievement of the participants". WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS MY FRIEND :)

At first glance, yes, you are the champions :), but this is only one study and it is conducted with a certain group of people. We don't know what kind of results we'll have with a different group. This means I expect you to show more evidences in favor of your "champion" title :).

I use this software so much while preparing animations and videos. Its interface is so easy to use and the videos created seems so professional. You can share the link with your friends and edit collaboratively the video.

Benefits of mediation. We experienced this a bit in class last week, good to see that it has some effects :)

In this wiki page, you can find a variety of different CSCL technologies. Since the page is a "wiki" one, you can also edit and add some technologies to the list.

There are lots of technologies in that website to use in CSCL environments.

This is a conference organized by EARLI Special Interest Group: Neuroscience and Education. Here is the conference program that we can examine the abstracts of the papers presented. There are also papers from Turkey :)