Re: Forbes Spotlights Neuroeducation as Top trend
The post asks: Will the science of the brain give us new ways to engage with kids to improve their chances for lifelong learning? My response: No doubt brain science can provide us valuable...
View ArticleInteresting Post on Memory and Attention
Re: Greg Laden’s Blog: Modern Neuroscience Verifies a Peircian Idea Interesting reference to a recent paper in Neuroscience related to the role of long-term memory in orienting attention. It offers...
View ArticleRe: Kids’ Cognition Is Changing—Education Will Have to Change With It
Re: Kids’ Cognition Is Changing—Education Will Have to Change With It (The Atlantic 2-29-12) Real educational reform must start with reforming the very mission of education. In the face of the ever...
View Article“Our problems are man-made” but “we” didn’t create them and “we” can’t solve...
This is in response to David Roberts’ article: “Getting used to being in charge of the planet” David Roberts (DR): “the decisions made by people alive today will determine the fate of life on Earth...
View ArticleRe: Wiring the brain, through experience
In response to a Harvard University release summarized by Brain Mysteries: Re: Wiring the brain, through experience Whether our brain’s ‘wiring’ starts minimal and extends through learning or starts...
View ArticleDo you see what I see? The Child, the Child…
What we call their improficiencies are ours. Proficiency stats are mirrors that say more about our proficiency in stewarding their learning than they say about their capacity for learning. The post Do...
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Sound In the Womb Provides Sound Learning Benefits
This fascinating post outlines the temporal dynamics and training wheels’-like benefit-effects of initially learning the gross and fuzzies before learning to differentiate the more extensive, intense,...
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Re: What Is It About the Human Brain That Makes Us Smarter Than Other Animals?
I share this article from “Neuroscience News” because it’s a good summary of interesting neuroscience, and because, like my prior post: “Sound In the Womb Provides Sound Learning Benefits“, it’s...
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Brain Gender Learning?
Learning genderizes our gender. Learning doesn’t determine gender – learning determines genderization. The post Brain Gender Learning? appeared first on Learning Stewards.
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Please Help Us Prepare: Climate Change
Even if you deny the warnings of climate science, there’s no denying the effects of climate change. Extreme weather has now become so commonplace that insurance companies will no longer cover weather...
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Is Free Will Determined By Learning?
Stanford University professor Robert Sapolsky just released a new book called: Determined A Science of Life Without Free Will How could a field-leading behavioral neuroscientist claim we have no free...
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Challenging the Common Conception of Neuroplasticity
The Brain Isn’t as Adaptable as Some Neuroscientists Claim. The idea of treating neurological disorders by marshaling vast unused neural reserves is more wishful thinking than reality. The post...
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Engaging Learning
Throughout the following conversation please filter your responses through our previous agreements: Children can’t help but learn to become adults Learning is not just “a” central focus; it is “the”...
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