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Thursday, September 2, 2010
Some food for thought from the web of late: From Lifehacker: Why Technology Is So Addictive, and How You Can Avoid Tech Burnout From the New York Times: Digital Devices Deprive Brain of Needed Downtime Outdoors and Out of Reach, Studying the Brain (and then leave me a comment to give me my dopamine fix, please! Oh the thrill! need it.
 
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Trainer says: How would you like a little challenge to get you warmed up and put your brains in gear? Trainers can be wonderfully inventive when it comes to designing activities, but awfully inhibited when it comes to transferring them online. In yesterday’s blog I promised to share a number of whiteboards with you. Have you managed to …?
 
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Blood clots can form and travel to the brain causing stroke. I admit it. couldn’t live without my daily drugs. Every day I take 5 to 7.5 milligrams of rat poison. Yesterday I had a long talk with a fellow rat poison user. That’s 3-(alpha-acetonylbenzyl)-4-hydroxycoumarin for you chemists out there. He wanted to know more.
 

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Rule 3: Every brain is wired differently In this chapter, John Medina explains how every brain is different from every other: "When you learn something, the wiring in your brain changes." What you do in life physically changes what your brain looks like." Tags: Brain Rules
Radica Brain Games - low tech game for those not ready for a Nintendo DS The iBrain book also suggests some low tech ideas like learning how to play chess, taking up the tuba and volunteering at a local hospital. Tags: brain These are great - and they may spark some ideas for your own interactive exercises.
Followers of this blog will know that I have been reviewing John Medina's book Brain Rules chapter by chapter over the past three months. Rule 1: Exercise boosts brain power We have a problem if we expect learners to thrive sitting down for hours at a time in a classroom. Tags: Brain Rules The implications?
quot; "Some regions of the adult brain stay as malleable as a baby's brain, so we can grow new connections, strengthen existing connections, and even create new neurons, allowing us to be lifelong learners." quot; "The greatest brain rule of all is the importance of curiousity." Now be honest.
There's been a lot of discussion around cognitive theory and "how the brain learns." So the July Question is: Does the discussion of "how the brain learns" impact your eLearning design? June 4, 2009 Rob Barton: Reducing Extraneous Cognitive Load by Accounting for Individual Differences , January 12, 2009 Push Your Brain!
They appear to take advantage of the brain's predeliction for pattern matching. Information is more readily processed if it can be immediately associated with information already present in the learner's brain." quot; The human brain is not like a computer: "it has no 'hard drive' separate from its initial; input connectors."
I found some interesting quotes about the impact of digital media on our brains. All this bifurcates the brain and keeps it from pursuing one linear thought and teaches you that you should be able to have every urge answered the minute the urge occurs (Todd Oppenheimer, Author, The Flickering Mind). Brain Is it a loss?
Rule 8: Stressed brains don't learn the same way In this chapter, John Medina turns his attention to stress and the way this affects the brain. If the stress is not too severe, the brain performs better. Tags: Brain Rules research Not surprisingly, people who experience chronic stress are sick more often. lot more often.
Rule 2: The human brain evolved too In this chapter, John Medina explains how the brain has evolved over time. quot; "The ability to peer inside somebody's mental life and make predictions takes a tremendous amount of intelligence and, not surprisingly, brain activity." Tags: reviews Brain Rules
John is a developmental molecular biologist (whatever that means) and serious about distinguishing brain myths from brain facts, so I've got some confidence in his work. Rule 1: Exercise boosts brain power You'll have to get used to the fact that John's rules aren't really rules at all, they're assertions.