Well, I'll try this for a second time. I found a book called Worksheets Don't Grow Dendrites by Marcia L. Tate. When I googled the title it came up at every book store on line. It's easy to find. Marcia identifies and describes 20 brain compatable strategies for learning. She provides over 200 research rationals as to why these strategies work. There are also over 150 examples of how to use these strategies in elementary, middle and high school. The activities range from art to humor to labs to reciprocal teaching to journal writing. The book is very teacher friendly and gives great ideas of practical things to try in the classroom. I will bring the book to class on Tuesday if anyone wants to check it out.
I found an article from abcnews.com which is about bullies and pain. A study done at the University of Chicago shows that young men with conduct disorder showed activity in the pleasure centers of their brains, while watching videos of people getting hurt. Normal males, those without conduct disorder, did not have any activity in their pleasure centers, only in their pain centers. It raised interesting questions about bullies in jr high and high school, and whether or not future tests and studies will show whether aggressive children are having a phase, or their brains are wired wrong. http://abcnews.go.com/Health/PainManagement/story?id=6200528&page=1
The video clip (link listed below) is part of the article "From Brain-Based Research to Powerful Learning: Innovative Teaching Techniques in the Classroom" that I located on edutopia.org. This particular school emphasizes the constructivist approach to education, whereby cooperative learning, hands-on techniques, problem-solving and other methods are used throughout the educational program. This school incorporates research-based techniques on learning. The ten minute video is definitely worth watching. As stated during the movie clip, the school is all about “teaching students how to learn rather than teaching students how to take a test.” It is great to see how much emphasis is placed on teaching students the practical everyday skills that are so important to everyday life. (- Jenn Sportsman) http://www.edutopia.org/key-largo-school
This is an article about Jill Bolte Taylor, a neuroscientist who had a major stroke in the left side of her brain. She explains the symptoms of her stroke in detail. Even as it was happening, she looked upon the ordeal as a terrified victim and as an excited scientist who was getting to experience it first-hand. Before the stroke, she had been primarily a left-brained person. After the stroke forced her to see the world through her right brain, she has never looked at things the same way. In fact, she compares the experience to a spiritual awakening where she was "with God." Here is an interesting portion of the story:
When she woke, she was surprised to be alive. She'd been in an oceanic place with no boundaries. "The absence of experience is bliss. It was peaceful and beautiful there. I was with God," she believes. "I could see that my spirit was huge. I didn't see how I would be able to squeeze myself back into this tiny little body." Describing this state, she sounds like a mystic. "All details of my life and language were gone. Language is a kind of code, and things were no longer reduced to coding. I was looking at the big picture and could see how everything is related. Everything is in motion, connected in a dance of grace. The brain is what imposes boundaries, and boundaries convey a perception of separation, but that's a delusion. Everything is one."
"I got to sit in the space of silence gurus meditate toward for years," she says. She didn't want to leave. The world she periodically awoke to was painful: all strident vibration, raw data, and chaos.
She has written a book about her journey called: My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
this is a You Tube video of Dr. Bolte-Taylor telling her story:
An article from the Washington Post "Learning About Learning" outlines some findings in recent brain research and how it relates to education and also sets the record straight on some common misconceptions. One of the most interesting things that has come from new brain research is that our brains have neuroplasticity (discussed in our first class session) and can be "rewired" over time. This gives hope to children with learning disabilities as well as to those who have had a brain injury. Some myths discussed in the article are the belief that boys and girls have totally different brains; the widely held notion that "listening to Bach in the bassinet will make babies smarter;" and that there are left-brained and right-brained people ("Total nonsense," according to Kurt Fischer, director of Harvard's mind, brain and education master's degree program, "unless they've had their left or right hemisphere removed. All of us use all our brains.")
"Funderstanding" is a simple but informative website for kids that teacher can use a supplement to a lesson. I found a great kid friendly article about B.F. Skinner. http://www.funderstanding.com/behaviorism.cfm
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Check out this video on Skinner's Operant Conditioning. It's pretty cool what even pigeons are capable of.
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=I_ctJqjlrHA
Well, I'll try this for a second time. I found a book called Worksheets Don't Grow Dendrites by Marcia L. Tate. When I googled the title it came up at every book store on line. It's easy to find. Marcia identifies and describes 20 brain compatable strategies for learning. She provides over 200 research rationals as to why these strategies work. There are also over 150 examples of how to use these strategies in elementary, middle and high school. The activities range from art to humor to labs to reciprocal teaching to journal writing. The book is very teacher friendly and gives great ideas of practical things to try in the classroom. I will bring the book to class on Tuesday if anyone wants to check it out.
Kris said...
I found this website for teachers and educators that looks interesting. It has to do with the brain and learning.
www.brainconection.com/
I found an article from abcnews.com which is about bullies and pain. A study done at the University of Chicago shows that young men with conduct disorder showed activity in the pleasure centers of their brains, while watching videos of people getting hurt. Normal males, those without conduct disorder, did not have any activity in their pleasure centers, only in their pain centers. It raised interesting questions about bullies in jr high and high school, and whether or not future tests and studies will show whether aggressive children are having a phase, or their brains are wired wrong.
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/PainManagement/story?id=6200528&page=1
The video clip (link listed below) is part of the article "From Brain-Based Research to Powerful Learning: Innovative Teaching Techniques in the Classroom" that I located on edutopia.org. This particular school emphasizes the constructivist approach to education, whereby cooperative learning, hands-on techniques, problem-solving and other methods are used throughout the educational program. This school incorporates research-based techniques on learning. The ten minute video is definitely worth watching. As stated during the movie clip, the school is all about “teaching students how to learn rather than teaching students how to take a test.” It is great to see how much emphasis is placed on teaching students the practical everyday skills that are so important to everyday life. (- Jenn Sportsman)
http://www.edutopia.org/key-largo-school
http://www.oprah.com/article/omagazine/200210_omag_jill_bolte_taylor/1
This is an article about Jill Bolte Taylor, a neuroscientist who had a major stroke in the left side of her brain. She explains the symptoms of her stroke in detail. Even as it was happening, she looked upon the ordeal as a terrified victim and as an excited scientist who was getting to experience it first-hand. Before the stroke, she had been primarily a left-brained person. After the stroke forced her to see the world through her right brain, she has never looked at things the same way. In fact, she compares the experience to a spiritual awakening where she was "with God." Here is an interesting portion of the story:
When she woke, she was surprised to be alive. She'd been in an oceanic place with no boundaries. "The absence of experience is bliss. It was peaceful and beautiful there. I was with God," she believes. "I could see that my spirit was huge. I didn't see how I would be able to squeeze myself back into this tiny little body." Describing this state, she sounds like a mystic. "All details of my life and language were gone. Language is a kind of code, and things were no longer reduced to coding. I was looking at the big picture and could see how everything is related. Everything is in motion, connected in a dance of grace. The brain is what imposes boundaries, and boundaries convey a perception of separation, but that's a delusion. Everything is one."
"I got to sit in the space of silence gurus meditate toward for years," she says. She didn't want to leave. The world she periodically awoke to was painful: all strident vibration, raw data, and chaos.
She has written a book about her journey called:
My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
this is a You Tube video of Dr. Bolte-Taylor telling her story:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCB0HFiFbVQ
An article from the Washington Post "Learning About Learning" outlines some findings in recent brain research and how it relates to education and also sets the record straight on some common misconceptions. One of the most interesting things that has come from new brain research is that our brains have neuroplasticity (discussed in our first class session) and can be "rewired" over time. This gives hope to children with learning disabilities as well as to those who have had a brain injury. Some myths discussed in the article are the belief that boys and girls have totally different brains; the widely held notion that "listening to Bach in the bassinet will make babies smarter;" and that there are left-brained and right-brained people ("Total nonsense," according to Kurt Fischer, director of Harvard's mind, brain and education master's degree program, "unless they've had their left or right hemisphere removed. All of us use all our brains.")
washingtonpost.com
"Funderstanding" is a simple but informative website for kids that teacher can use a supplement to a lesson. I found a great kid friendly article about B.F. Skinner. http://www.funderstanding.com/behaviorism.cfm
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