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The Learning Brain Gets Bigger--Then Smaller: Scientific American - 0 views

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    Fascinating study in auditory cortex of rats being trained to discriminate subtle pitch differences raises a great many questions about learning and learning from mistakes.
Daniel Barber

Learning Styles Debunked: There is No Evidence Supporting Auditory and Visual Learning,... - 2 views

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    A metastudy of research on Learning Styles and the conclusions
Daniel Barber

Why learning styles don't exist, by Daniel Willingham | NeuroBollocks - 1 views

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    Why learning styles don't exist
Daniel Barber

Evidence Based EFL: Learning styles: facts and fictions - 0 views

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    Learning styles: facts and fictions
Daniel Barber

How I Rewired My Brain to Become Fluent in Math - Issue 40: Learning - Nautilus - 0 views

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    Powerful cross-disciplinary examination of the fundamental elements in effective learning.
Daniel Barber

Learning styles… a load of rubbish? | One Year in the Life of an English Teacher - 0 views

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    Learning styles - links to academic papers, also Multiple Intelligences
Daniel Barber

Should we be using learning styles? - LSRC_LearningStyles.pdf - 2 views

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    Huge and comprehensive report on learning styles, with some very positive things to say about them.
Daniel Barber

Ready to learn? The science behind the experiment - video | Science | guardian.co.uk - 1 views

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    Guardian mini documentary outlining the state of neuroeducation, especially looking at the importance of sleep, nutrition and exercise on children's cognitive abilities and readiness to learn.
Daniel Barber

Medical Xpress: Learning in your sleep - the right way - 0 views

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    Learn vocab by hearing it in your sleep
Daniel Barber

How Barbara Arrowsmith-Young rebuilt her own brain | Science | The Guardian - 0 views

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    A personal story of plasticity. Barbara Arrowsmith Young had severe learning disabilities but trained herself out of them when she realised that the brain can and does change.
Daniel Barber

Does reading (and learning a language) require two brains? « Jeremy Harmer's ... - 1 views

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    Jeremy's enthusiastic 'reading' of cognitive research that suggests extensive reading for pleasure and intensive reading for study are physiologically different processes. He posits that extensive reading points to 'acquisition' rather than more conscious 'learning'
Daniel Barber

Change Magazine - September-October 2010 - 1 views

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    There is no credible evidence that learning styles exist
Daniel Barber

Children Learning English Affectively: The benefits behind learning a foreign language - 0 views

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    Dubious infographic, but with vague referencing
Daniel Barber

Learn a second language to slow ageing brain's decline - health - 03 June 2014 - New Sc... - 0 views

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    As if we needed a reason to learn languages!... Here's another
Daniel Barber

Medical Xpress: Better breakfast, better grades - 0 views

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    A clue as to one of the possible causes of the link between lifestyle (as dictated by social class amongst other things) and learning. Breakfast counts!
Daniel Barber

Drink two espressos to enhance long-term memory - health - 12 January 2014 - New Scientist - 1 views

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    Give our students coffee to help them learn. Another reason adults are better learners than kids? ;o)
Daniel Barber

Singing Improves Ability To Learn Foreign Language - 2 views

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    evidence-based data on auditory practice
Daniel Barber

Age of language learning shapes brain structure: A cortical thickness study of bilingua... - 0 views

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    Age of language learning shapes brain structure: A cortical thickness study of bilingual and monolingual individuals
Daniel Barber

Taylor & Francis Online :: Neuromythologies in education - Educational Research - Volum... - 2 views

  • label children with V, A and K shirts
  • What is possibly more insidious is that focusing on one sensory modality flies in the face of the brain's natural interconnectivity. VAK
  • input modalities in the brain are interlinked: visual with auditory; visual with motor; motor with auditory; visual with taste; and so on.
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  • the brain sees with its ears and touch, and hears with its eyes.
  • as primates, we are predominantly processors of visual information.
  • Eating does not engage just taste, but smell, tactile (inside the mouth), auditory and visual sensations
  • Learning a language, and the practice of it, requires the coordinated use of visual, auditory and kinaesthetic modalities, in addition to memory, emotion, will, thinking and imagination
  • There is indeed such a neural concourse, in the parieto-temporo-occipital ‘association’ cortex in each cerebral hemisphere
  • Fortunately, many teachers have not been taken in. Ironically, VAK has become, in the hands of practitioners, a recipe for a mixed-modality pedagogy where lessons have explicit presentations of material in V, A and K modes. Teachers quickly observed that their pupils' so-called learning styles were not stable, that the expressions of V-, A- and K-ness varied with the demands of the lessons, as they should
  • extrapolations from the lab to the classroom need to be made with considerable caution
  • The coloured blobs on brain maps representing areas of significant activation (so-called ‘lighting up’) are like the peaks of sub-oceanic mountains which rise above sea level
  • considerable complexity.
  • (fMRI),
  • the images are the end-result of many years' work on understanding the quantum mechanics of nuclear magnetic resonance phenomena, the development of the engineering of superconducting magnets, the application of inverse fast Fourier transforms to large data sets and the refinement of high-speed computing hardware and software to analyse large data sets across multiple parameters.
  • these neural contributions to intelligence are necessary for all school subjects, and all other aspects of cognition
  • no individual modules in the brain which correspond directly to the school curriculum
  • Neuromyths typically ignore such interconnectivity in their pursuit of simplicity
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    An academic paper and review of neuromyths. Some very positive things to say and some fantastic quotes!
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