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Teachers as Brain-Changers: Neuroscience and Learning

Teachers as Brain-Changers: Neuroscience and Learning | The 21st Century | Scoop.it
Knowing more about how kids' brains function and acquire knowledge can help teachers maximize learning opportunities for their students, says Wendi Pillars.

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Teaching and Human Memory, Part I - Do Your Job Better - The Chronicle of Higher Education

Teaching and Human Memory, Part I - Do Your Job Better - The Chronicle of Higher Education | The 21st Century | Scoop.it

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Time on the Brain: How You Are Always Living In the Past, and Other Quirks of Perception

Time on the Brain: How You Are Always Living In the Past, and Other Quirks of Perception | The 21st Century | Scoop.it
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Why It’s Good that the Internet Is Changing Our Brains

Why It’s Good that the Internet Is Changing Our Brains | The 21st Century | Scoop.it
Hint: It means we’re evolving....
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Brain Teasers | Daily Dose at Internet 4 Classrooms

Brain Teasers | Daily Dose at Internet 4 Classrooms | The 21st Century | Scoop.it
Brain Teasers | Daily Dose at Internet 4 Classrooms, internet resources for teachers and students, children and parents. Brain Teasers for Daily Use in Your Classroom.
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A little practice can change the brain in a lasting way, study finds

A little practice can change the brain in a lasting way, study finds | The 21st Century | Scoop.it
A little practice goes a long way, according to researchers who have found the effects of practice on the brain have remarkable staying power.
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Teaching and Human Memory, Part 2 - Do Your Job Better - The Chronicle of Higher Education

Teaching and Human Memory, Part 2 - Do Your Job Better - The Chronicle of Higher Education | The 21st Century | Scoop.it

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BBC - BBC Radio 4 Programmes - Brain Culture: Neuroscience and Society

BBC - BBC Radio 4 Programmes - Brain Culture: Neuroscience and Society | The 21st Century | Scoop.it

Matthew Taylor explores the coming 'Brain Culture'.

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Will the speed of online reading deplete our analytic thought?

Will the speed of online reading deplete our analytic thought? | The 21st Century | Scoop.it
Maryanne Wolf: The Big Ideas: Marshall McLuhan's hypothesis about the medium influencing our reading circuits forms an apt prelude to today's debates...
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Dr Jonathan Reed - Child Neuropsychology 10 Computer Games that are good for your brain

Dr Jonathan Reed - Child Neuropsychology  10 Computer Games that are good for your brain | The 21st Century | Scoop.it

Children and adults learn and develop through play. I am a great believer that playing computer games as well as being fun can be good for your brain. I have therefore created a list of 10 great games that I think require very specific areas of neuropsychological function to play. Some even have research to show that they can change brain and neuropsychological function.

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Just what the docter ordered, a great learning list to check out.

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Google and our delegated brains

Google and our delegated brains | The 21st Century | Scoop.it
Google can supply us with infinite facts. It is the greatest repository of collective memory we’ve ever had. It even remembers things that did not happen! We're all using Google as an intellectual crutch. Google and our delegated brains. Scan most college course catalogues and you will see a slew of classes with names such as “Approaches to Philosophy,” “Approaches to Postmodernism,” “Approaches to Rhinos” (slowly and not from...
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Does Our Brain Really Create Consciousness?

Does Our Brain Really Create Consciousness? | The 21st Century | Scoop.it
Some explore computing theory and believe that consciousness emerges from the complexity of the brain's processing. Others find sources of hope in chaos theory. Yet whatever ideas are put forward, one thorny question ...
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