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Remote Ready Biology Learning Activities

Remote Ready Biology Learning Activities has 50 remote-ready activities, which work for either your classroom or remote teaching.

THINKING BACKWARDS ABOUT THE BRAIN:

IMPLICATIONS FOR NEUROBIOLOGY AND FOR EDUCATION

THE ODYSSEY OF THE FROG

LEAVING OUT THE NEOCORTEX ... and consciousness
BEGINNING FROM THE SENSORY SIDE ... and discovering abstraction
REDISCOVERING THE HARVARD LAW OF ANIMAL BEHAVIOR
"Under carefully controlled experimental circumstances, an animal behaves as it damned welll pleases"

"INTRINSIC VARIABILITY" ON THE OUTPUT SIDE and beyond

IN THE FROG - adaptability/creativity without a neocortex, regulatable
IN THE LEECH - output without input
IN HUMANS - rediscovering/redefining consciousness, and the output/input relation

THE GENERALITY AND VALUE OF AMBIGUITY ON THE INPUT SIDE

IMPLICATONS FOR EDUCATION

Dealing with ambiguity
Learning by generating output, comparing input with internal expectation/objective
Requirements: multiple possible outputs, willingness/ability/patience to choose, meaningful feedback
Trying to make it work, in particulars (Biology, Neurobiology and Behavior), in general (Serendip)

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