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So Much To Teach!  So Little Time!

KTLC 04 PowerPoint:

Too Much to Teach; So Little Time (Use a mouse click to see text and forward to next slide)

Brain Research:

Mind Matters:

http://www.districtadministration.com/page.cfm?id=235&offsite_title=Mind+Matters

Ninety percent of what scientists know about the brain has been discovered in the past decade, and the technology continues to change. Although few studies have had direct applications for the classroom, there is already a great deal of excitement surrounding the information being generated.

The more regions of the brain that are involved and the more we engage our emotions, the more means we have for recalling information.

The Brain Connection:

http://www.brainconnection.com/topics/?main=fa/brain-based3

• The brain is a complex adaptive system.
• The brain is a social brain.
• The search for meaning is innate.
• The search for meaning occurs through patterning.
• Emotions are critical to patterning.
• Every brain simultaneously perceives and creates parts and wholes.
• Learning involves both focused attention and peripheral attention.
• Learning always involves conscious and unconscious processes.
• We have at least two ways of organizing memory.
• Learning is developmental.
• Complex learning is enhanced by challenge and inhibited by threat.
• Every brain is uniquely organized. (Caine and Caine 1997)

The human brain is constantly seeking patterns in its environment. Leslie A. Hart, Human Brain and Human Learning, has identified six patterns the brain identifies. These are objects, actions, procedures, situations, relationships and systems. The brain does not take in patterns in a logical, sequential manner. It takes them in randomly. In order to determine the patterns in ones environment the brain needs many, many real experiences. Pattern recognition is the ability to identify and understand the things in the environment. The brain needs quantum amounts of experiences to understand and apply the patterns. Application of patterns are how mental programs are built.

--Leslie A. Hart, Human Brain and Human Learning

http://www.edweek.org/ew/vol-18/16sousa.h18

We are in the middle of an unprecedented revolution of knowledge about the human brain, including how it processes, interprets, and stores information. Never before have we known more about human learning. Thanks to a rapidly growing body of research in neuroscience, teaching is no longer just an art form--it is also a science. Never before have we had the potential for being successful with more students. Although the research is no magic bullet, what we are discovering about learning has the potential for making the greatest contribution to our practice in recent memory. Yet despite this incredible promise, many educators still question its significance.

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Inspiration Home Page:    
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Kidspiration Demo   
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Kidspiration Guide:
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Kidspiration On-Line Video Training by Atomic Training:
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Kidspiration Tutorial:
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