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]]>With the great popularity of so-called brain-based learning, however, comes great risk. “So much of what is published and said is useless,” says Kurt Fischer, founding president of the International Mind, Brain, and Education (MBE) Society and director of the MBE graduate program at Harvard University. “Much of it is wrong, a lot is empty or vapid, and some is not based in neuroscience at all.”
Still, there are some powerful insights emerging from brain science that speak directly to how we teach in the classroom: learning experiences do help the brain grow, emotional safety does influence learning, and making lessons relevant can help information stick. The trick is separating the meat from the marketing.
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]]>- Students attending classes in the University of Minnesota’s new, technology-enhanced learning spaces exceeded final grade expectations relative to their ACT scores, suggesting strongly that features of the spaces contributed to their learning.
- First-year and sophomore students as well as students from metropolitan areas rated the new learning spaces significantly higher than their upper-division and rural counterparts in terms of engagement, enrichment, effectiveness, flexibility, fit, and instructor use.
- Different learning environments affect teaching-learning activities even when instructors attempt to hold these activities constant.
- Although assignment types greatly affect the study environments students select, in choosing informal study spaces students fall into routines early and are reluctant to deviate from them even if they are not meeting their study goals.
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]]>Research over the past two decades has deepened our understanding of the fundamental principles of human learning. Yet much of what we do in undergraduate education seems to effectively ignore these principles.
Robert Duke, professor of music and human learning at University of Texas-Austin, explains how learning theory can be leveraged to design more effective instruction and motivate students.
Here are the slides that accompany the talk:
Slides: Why students don’t learn what we think we teach
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]]>Because videoconferencing allows people to share their histories, ideas and beliefs with others in distant locations, it can be a powerful way of creating bridges between people who live in different cultural and geographic communities. When using videoconferencing in Aboriginal communities, understanding, respecting and celebrating cultural differences is an important way of creating a trusting and inclusive learning environment so that more of these bridges are formed.
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]]>A writing instructor at UT-Dallas explains how and why she has incorporated blogging and digital video into her teaching of rhetoric and composition.
A strictly digital approach is not for everyone. I will always prefer a paper book, believe memorizing grammar rules is essential, and don’t think everyone needs a blog. Nonetheless, these are issues students should be aware of. Creating work in a vacuum delegitimizes it. When the goal of your course is to teach students to persuade, and you don’t include what is now the most influential tool for disseminating your argument, you are crippling your students. Writing and reading online is different than performing those same tasks on paper. We communicate differently on the Internet, and as more and more people read from their phones and portable e-readers, our understanding of communication will change further still. As technology shifts, so does our means of persuasion; if students do not explore this, they will find their skills quickly out of date.
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]]>The New Media Consortium just released their 2010 Horizon Report today which outlines emerging technologies and practices that are likely to impact teaching and learning on college campuses within the next five years. The technologies to watch identified in the report are:
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]]>Keynote Topic:
“Traditional Indigenous Knowledge: The Original “Alternative” Learning Model”
Keynote Summary:
Indigenous ways of knowing, researching, and education have been suppressed, ignored or ridiculed for centuries, and our world’s condition is paying the price. Many alternative education programs naturally have re-discovered portions of this approach to learning, but a more complete or more widespread application may be needed if we are to survive as a species. In this keynote, Four Arrows will offer a summary of the basic tenants of Indigenous education.
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]]>This report outlines a national research study conducted by the University of Washington to “understand how college students find information and conduct research—their needs, strategies, and workarounds—for their course work and for addressing issues that arise in their everyday lives.”
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