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Brain-Based Learning: Resource Roundup | Edutopia - 0 views

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    Brain-Based Learning: Resource Roundup | Edutopia http://t.co/q4Vi2i4rwc via @ptaylorsjr @cyberjohn07
Phil Taylor

Our Brain Does Not Function Like We Think It Does - Edudemic - 0 views

  • McGilchrist details how our brains are ‘divided brains’ and why they aren’t actually functioning like we originally thought (pun intended).
Phil Taylor

Focus 2 Achieve - Learning Is About Understanding And Changing The Brain - 1 views

  • Most profound learning happens when a student understands how her brain works and she knows the factors that affect brain development.
Phil Taylor

Stop Telling Your Students To "Pay attention!" | Brain Based Learning | Brain Based Tea... - 3 views

  • Instead of saying to students, “Pay attention!” what you really want to say is, “Suppress interesting things!”
Phil Taylor

Daphne Bavelier: Your brain on video games | Video on TED.com - 0 views

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    "Daphne Bavelier: Your brain on video games"
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Are iPads, Smartphones, and the Mobile Web Rewiring the Way We Think?| The Committed Sa... - 0 views

  • e difference between quick skimming and scanning on the Web, which lodges in the brain's short-term memory and is quickly lost, and the long-term memories that a more thoughtful kind of slow reading provides. "I share Nicholas Carr's feeling that my brain has been rewired," he says.
  • "It's indisputable that the Internet has made us smarter.... The range of things you can explore in a day is just fantastic compared to 20 years ago," says David Weinberger, senior researcher at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. "There's no question that we feel the Internet has made us better researchers, better thinkers, better writers."
  • Books "are not the shape of knowledge," he says. "They're a limitation on knowledge." The idea of a single author presenting her ideas "was born of the limitations of paper publishing. It's not necessarily the only way or the best way to think and to write."
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  • Wolf makes sure she stays off-line at specific times. "For a half hour before bedtime and a half hour in the morning I do nothing digital," she says.
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    "e difference between quick skimming and scanning on the Web, which lodges in the brain's short-term memory and is quickly lost, and the long-term memories that a more thoughtful kind of slow reading provides. "I share Nicholas Carr's feeling that my brain has been rewired," he says."
Phil Taylor

The Teenage Brain - 1 views

  • he greatest changes to the parts of the brain that are responsible for impulse-control, judgement, decision-making, planning, organization and involved in other functions like emotion, occur in adolescence. This area of the brain (prefrontal cortex) does not reach full maturity until around age 25!
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RSA Animate - The Divided Brain - YouTube - 1 views

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    renowned psychiatrist and writer Iain McGilchrist explains how our 'divided brain' has profoundly altered human behaviour, culture and society.
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