Left Brain (Extrinsic) vs Right Brain (Intrinsic) Core Drives in Gamification - Yu-kai Chou: Gamification & Behavioral Design. (Below is a snippet of Gamification Book: Actionable Gamification – Beyond Points, Badges, and Leaderboards.
If you like this blog post, you will LOVE the book.) Prepping the Mind for Learning. Posted 07/15/2015 6:52PM | Last Commented 07/16/2015 8:23PM When I was a teenager it took me three tries to get my driver’s license.
My first attempt involved a left turn on a red light and my great-aunt’s Oldsmobile careening through an intersection as the test administrator shouted “Jesus Christ!” In the passenger seat. Contrary to what the reader may think after reading these two accounts, the days of my driving tests were not the first times I had ever been behind the wheel of a vehicle. 10 Dangerous Myths Every Educator Should Know About The Brain. If you think kids can’t get better in school, then you think brains have minimal capacity for change.
But they are actually changing ALL the time. If a child spends the summer relaxing, watching television or wandering in a mall, your child is likely to experience some brain atrophy. Remember, the brain responds to environmental input. If the child’s brain hears fewer words, less complex ones, and does little challenging learning, some of the brain’s dendrites may weaker and become thinner. One way to measure if summer causes big lags in the brain is examine how the brain is working in key areas related to school, then do this over time periods that should reflect the influence of classroom teaching.
In this study, the 4 domains of Language, Spatial Operations, Concepts, and Associative Memory were measured. What the research tells us is that generally, yes, summer does slow the kid’s cognitive processes that relate to language acquisition. Teachers tap into brain science to boost learning. JUDY WOODRUFF: Next: neuroscience and education.
Thousands of teachers around the country are learning about an alternative teaching program that aims to use scientific discoveries about the brain to improve the way children learn in the classroom. Special correspondent John Tulenko of Learning Matters reports from Philadelphia. JASSELLE CIRINO, Teacher, Francis Scott Key Elementary: When I say class, you… CLASS: You stop what you’re doing. Look at the teacher. Why Slowing Down Stimuli to Real Time Helps a Child’s Brain. By Eric Westervelt, NPR Our “Tools of the Trade” series is taking a look at some of the iconic objects that form a vital part of our educational lives.
For an upcoming piece, I’m reporting on how young children learn through that most basic of preschool education tools: simple wooden blocks. Dr. Dimitri Christakis has done done extensive research on blocks and play and lectured on media and children. He is the Director of the Center for Child Health, Behavior and Development at Seattle Children’s Research Institute. And so we talked about the way young children learn and how their minds develop. How Does the Brain Learn Best? Smart Studying Strategies.
In his new book, “How We Learn: The Surprising Truth about When, Where, and Why It Happens,” author Benedict Carey informs us that “most of our instincts about learning are misplaced, incomplete, or flat wrong” and “rooted more in superstition than in science.” That’s a disconcerting message, and hard to believe at first. But it’s also unexpectedly liberating, because Carey further explains that many things we think of as detractors from learning — like forgetting, distractions, interruptions or sleeping rather than hitting the books — aren’t necessarily bad after all. They can actually work in your favor, according to a body of research that offers surprising insights and simple, doable strategies for learning more effectively.
Society has ingrained in us “a monkish conception of what learning is, of you sitting with your books in your cell,” Carey told MindShift. What’s Going on Inside the Brain Of A Curious Child? By Maanvi Singh, NPR How does a sunset work?
We love to look at them, but Jolanda Blackwell wanted her 8th graders to really think about them, to wonder and question. So Blackwell, who teaches science at Oliver Wendell Holmes Junior High in Davis, Calif., had her students watch a video of a sunset on YouTube as part of a physics lesson on motion. “I asked them: ‘So what’s moving? And why? '” Once she got the discussion going, the questions came rapid-fire. Why Talking About the Brain Can Empower Learners. Knowledge about how the brain works can make a big difference when confronting difficult learning situations.
If you have a growth mindset and are aware of the ability to improve oneself, a challenge can be welcome (versus those with a fixed mindset who are averse to the failures a challenge may bring). Stanford University professor of psychology Carol Dweck, who has been leading the research in this field, discusses “The power of believing that you can improve” in this TED talk.
In one example, she talks about students who made vast improvements on test scores once they learned about the growth mindset: How Does the Brain Learn Best? Smart Studying Strategies. What Kids Should Know About Their Own Brains. Getty Neuroscience may seem like an advanced subject of study, perhaps best reserved for college or even graduate school.
Two researchers from Temple University in Philadelphia propose that it be taught earlier, however—much earlier. As in first grade. In a study published in this month’s issue of the journal Early Education and Development, psychologists Peter Marshall and Christina Comalli began by surveying children aged four to 13 to discover what they already knew about the brain. Previous research had found that elementary school pupils typically have a limited understanding of the brain and how it functions, believing it to be something like “a container for storing memories and facts.” Marshall and Comalli’s questionnaire turned up the same uncertain grasp of the topic, which the researchers attributed to several factors. Studying With Quizzes Helps Make Sure the Material Sticks. iStock By Samara Freemark, American RadioWorks Roddy Roediger is a psychology professor at Washington University in St.
Louis and runs the school’s Memory Lab. He’s been obsessed with studying how and why people remember things for four decades. Metacognition: The Gift That Keeps Giving. Editor's note: This post is co-authored by Marcus Conyers who, with Donna Wilson, is co-developer of the M.S. and Ed.S.
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The internet brings inspiring and motivational speakers and experts to anyone with a connection and an internet-ready device. TED Talks are some of today’s most popular examples of the internet’s power to expand learning opportunities to all. Each month, we’ll bring you a handful of inspiring TED Talks. How to Effectively Communicate With Different Brain Types. To be a great communicator or leader, you must know your audience. Using brain types to understand your audience makes effective communication much simpler because you can customize and organize what you say to match the information needs of those you’re addressing. Information needs include the who, what, where, when, why and how of any given situation or task. When communicating with an audience, it’s important to know that people switch from external processing (listening) to internal processing (thinking) when their specific information needs have been fulfilled.
The next time you’re speaking with an employee or your entire staff, pay attention -- you can actually see when someone switches over from external to internal processing, and tunes you out. Q&A: Plumbing The Mysteries Of The Teenage Brain. By Anya Kamenetz Do you remember the summer when you first fell in love? The songs that were playing on the radio, butterflies in the stomach, the excitement of a stolen kiss?
The tendency of our brains to especially hold onto memories from the teenage years is called the “reminiscence bump.” It’s one of the many distinctive characteristics of the adolescent brain that psychologist Laurence Steinberg lays out in his new book, Age of Opportunity: Lessons from the New Science of Adolescence. For Teenage Brains, the Importance of Continuing to Learn Deeply. Big Ideas Daniel Horowitz for NPR By Shankar Vedantam, NPR John Hewitt is a neuroscientist who studies the biology of intelligence. He’s also a parent. Over the years, Hewitt has periodically drawn upon his scientific knowledge in making parenting decisions.
“I’m a father of four children myself and I never worried too much about the environments that I was providing for my children because I thought, well, it would all work out in the end anyway — aren’t the genes especially powerful?” He knew intelligence has a strong biological component. Our brains: predictably irrational. Music Lessons Enhance Brain Function in Disadvantaged Kids. Children from poor neighborhoods in Los Angeles who took regular music lessons for two years were able to distinguish similar speech sounds faster than their peers. There is much evidence that poverty, and the chronic stress it creates, hinders the development of young brains. How Does the Brain Learn Best? Smart Studying Strategies. Preparing Your Students for the Challenges of Tomorrow. Engaging Brains: How to Enhance Learning by Teaching Kids About Neuroplasticity. Editor's note: This post is co-authored by Marcus Conyers who, with Donna Wilson, is co-developer of the M.S. and Ed.S.
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