Posted in brain research, cool, learning, research, social studies on June 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Just finished tweaking (I hope!) a presentation on brain research in the classroom that I’m doing tomorrow for the UnConference. Looking forward to some great conversation and thinking out loud with conference participants.
We don’t have a ton of time so will focus on just a couple of things that people like John Medina and James [...]
Posted in change, learning, pbl, research, school reform on May 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Still in Colby, America as part of the iConnect UnConference. We’ve been having some great conversation about how we as educators can do our jobs better. The basic question has been - “What should schools look like and how can we work to make that vision happen?”
As the discussion starter this morning, we watched Sir [...]
Posted in brain research, learning, research, social studies, teaching on March 28, 2008 | No Comments »
If you wanted to create an education environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you probably would design something like a classroom.
So says John Medina.
Medina is the author of the new book, Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School. He uses some nice [...]
Posted in media literacy, research, technology integration, tip of the week on March 28, 2008 | No Comments »
We all did research as K-12 students and pre-service teachers. Much of that involved going to the library, using 3×5 note cards to record the information we gathered and later using some sort of manual typewriter to create an annotated bibliography. I still remember (without any fondness) the amount of time I spent consulting style [...]
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