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7 Things to Know About Learning and the Brain

SkyPrep

Researchers are continually discovering new evidence about learning and the brain that can help us with the development of more effective learning and teaching practices. Keep reading for a compilation of the most important discoveries scientists have made about learning and the brain, over the last little while.

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Analogous Research: How Connecting with Company Peers Can Increase Creativity

Maestro

Even the most creative thinkers face these types of challenges, but a unique design-research method may be the answer to overcoming mental obstacles: analogous research. What is analogous research? Analogous research is a design-research method that finds common challenges through uncommon contexts. It’s human.

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What Happens in a Story…Happens in Your Brain

Kapp Notes

Well, it turns out that there is empirical evidence to suggest that we actually do “act out” the story at some level in our brains or, at least, in the regions of the brain associated with aspects such as processing goal-directed human activity, navigating spatial environments, and manually manipulating objects in the real world.

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Learning Research by Annie Murphy Paul: Distributed Practice, Repetition and More

Knowledge Guru

” Most importantly for learning professionals, she has sifted through loads of research on the science of learning, synthesized it, and presented it to us in easy-to-read chunks, (usually) once a week. Annie Murphy Paul’s research dovetails nicely into the work done by John Medina for his book, Brain Rules.

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Video games as Good Teachers

Kapp Notes

Professor Daphne Bavelier, a researcher who conducted studies with funding from the National Institutes of Health and the James S. McDonnell-Pew Foundation in the area of video games made the following statement about her research. Professor Bavelier is not alone in her research or findings. It is called brain plasticity.

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Reading Research?

Clark Quinn

She suggested that one of the things in it includes “discussing how to read research” And it occurs to me that it’s worth unpacking the situation a wee bit more. So here’s a discussion about how we (properly) develop learning science that informs us in reading research. Generally, theory drives research.

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Music aids learning, but not unconditionally

Mitch Moldofsky

- Willy Shakespeare A lot of ink has been spilled over the question of what effect music has on the brain. Hold that thought, and l et's move on to study #2 , this one from the journal, Educational Technology Research and Development. This, despite some researchers' concerns about distraction and cognitive overload.

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