Brain Based Learning Powerpoint Tammy

8/13/2019 Brain Based Learning Powerpoint Tammy

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Brain-based education is best understood in threewords: engagement, strategies, and principles.Brain-based education is the "engagement ofstrategies based on principles derived from anunderstanding of the brain."


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Brain-Based Learning Taking what we know about the brain, about

development and about learning and combiningthose factors in intelligent ways to connect andexcite students desire to learn.

Combining emotional, factual and skillknowledge into a cognitive tool.


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Spatial Memory The spatial memory system (or autobiographicalsystem) does not need rehearsal and allows forinstant memory of experiences.

We understand and remember best when factsand skills are embedded in natural, spatialmemory.

Spatial memory is generally best invoked

through experiential learning.


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Rote Memory The counterpart of the spatial memory systemis a set of systems designed for storingrelatively unrelated information.

This is the model schools are based on. Wehave limited education to "programming" thesesystems and "teaching to the test." Can yousee why people would say that our educational

system is based on teaching to the test (andforgetting it afterwards) is not very successful?


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Memory Short-term memory

TO HELP: Combine or chunk

Recognition

Long-term memory Declarative- Factual

Episodic -Events or experiences

Semantic - Words

Procedural- Step by step


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Memory When objects and events are registered by severalsenses, they can be stored in several interrelatedmemory networks.

This type of memory becomes more accessible andpowerful.

Conversation helps us link ideas/thoughts to ourown related memories. Students need time for this

to happen!!


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Learning is developmental.

Depending upon the topic some students can thinkabstractly, while others have a limited backgroundand are still thinking on a concrete level.

Building the necessary neural connections byexposure, repetition, and practice is important tothe student.


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Learning Is Developmental Our experiences stimulate neural development,creating a thick forest of branch-like neuralconnections.

Because of our experiences, our brains actuallybecome denser providing greater capacity for newand deeper understanding.


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Learning Process


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Learning Strategies The solution is to embed learning by immersinglearners in well-orchestrated, life-like, low-threat, high-challenge learning environments.

We need to take the information off theblackboard, to make it come alive in the mindsof learners, and to help them to makeconnections through:* Storytelling *Conversations

* Debates *Role playing*Simulations * Songs*Games * Films


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Continue The brain develops better in concert with others. When students have to talk to others aboutinformation, they retain the information longerand more efficiently!

Make use of small groups, discussions, teams,pairings, and question and answer situations.


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Learning Styles Take a looks at learning styles and unique waysof patterning.

We have many things in common, but we alsoare very, very different.

We need to understand how we learn and howwe perceive the world and to know that we seethe world differently.


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Complex learning is enhanced by challenge and inhibitedby threat.

Tie learning to prior knowledge.

Use Know - Want to know - Learned cycle.

(What the Best College Teachers Do) suggestsworking from big questions to be answered.


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Learning The brains priority is always survival - at theexpense of higher order thinking.

Stress should be kept to a manageable level

Provide opportunities to grow and to makechanges.

Have high, but reasonable expectations.


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Uniquely Organized Every brain is uniquely organized. We all have the same set of systems, but theyare integrated differently in every brain.


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Our Unique Brain We are products of genetics andexperience.

The brain works better when facts and skillsare embedded in real experiences.


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The Brain


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LEARNING IS A DELICATE, BUT IS A

POWERFUL DIALOGUE BETWEEN GENETICSAND THE ENVIRONMENT Robert Sylwester, A

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