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Bend your brain

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Don''t crack up Bend your brain See both sides Throw off your mental chains. But we are not calling for a revolution here - simply for students to learn how to ''bend their brains''. Bend your brain by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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The Secret to Beating the Forgetting Curve

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As it turns out, the answer is a decisive “no,” because that’s not how human brains are wired. After all, there’s only so much available space in our mental hard drives, so our brains are optimized to quickly recall what repetition and habit have proven to be “important” while everything else that seems less essential gets pushed aside.

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Images

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“…unless our words, concepts, ideas are hooked onto an image, they will go in one ear, sail through the brain, and go out the other ear. A few more tips: Search for the least restrictive licensing options when considering Creative Commons images.

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Mythical beasts

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Some educational myths are about the nature of learning, others concern the role of teachers, or technology, and of course, there are several questionable theories floating around about the human brain and how we learn. Another persistent untruth is the theory of left and right brain dominance, also referred to as hemisphericity.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Brain Plasticity & Cognitive Abilities

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Thursday, May 24, 2007 Brain Plasticity & Cognitive Abilities Ive just read Richard Nantels post The Ultimate Pretest in which he talks about his interest in brain plasticity. Scientists are finding ways to change the brain through intellectual exercises. Havent yet read that brain plasticity book , but its on my list.

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#BrainTime 1: Well I never

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Another explanation is from dual processing theory, where we sense and process information through both hemispheres of our brains. However, recent experiments showed that it may be the frontal area of the brain, responsible for decision making, that is involved. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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#BrainTime 2: Time will tell

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Psychologists have demonstrated that the human brain is attuned to new experiences, but does not often encode familiar experiences and events (Broadway, 2016). BrainTime 2: Time will tell by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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