newliteracies

When you’re standing in front of a classroom of students who’re not quite sure they even want to be in your class, much less pay attention to what’s being said

Brain Target 2: Creating the Physical Learning Environment

Brain Target 1: Establish the emotional climate for learning

Brain Target 3: Designing the Learning Experience

Neuroscience: The brain feels before it thinks. The amygdala (think fight/flight) receives stimuli 40 milliseconds

Neuroscience: The brain craves novelty. Posner & Rothbart, 2007); lighting, background noise impact on attention;

Neuroscience behind it: The brain looks for patterns between known and unknown information (Posner & Rothbart

Brain Target 4: Teaching for Mastery

Neuroscience behind it: In order for information to be retained it must make its way from short-term to long-term memory.

Brain Target 5: Teaching for the Extension Neuroscience behind it: The brain is plastic. Significant changes occur in the brain due to repeated sensory experience (Fu & Zuo,2011, Karmarkar & Dan, 2006)

Brain Target 6: Evaluating Learning Neuroscience behind it: Assessments provides feedback that informs and motivates students; retrieval of information recruits memory systems, reinforcing memory for that information.

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Track Changes is a great tool for collaborative writing

allows users to see changes and editing

EasyBib

look for and  access citations and also generates a bibliography for your paper. You can choose from the three different citation formats: APA, MLA, or Chicago.