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Brain Behavior Institute 2009 - Schedule

BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR INSTITUTE 2009

Schedule

Monday, 6 July	Being a scientist/explorer/creator (theory)	Being a scientist/explorer/creator (practice)
Tuesday, 7 July	The brain as scientist/explorer/creator: nested boxes and diversity/change	Emergent Pedagogy and the Web, project time
Wednesday, 8 July	The bipartite brain: The frog and the story teller	Education and the web con., project time
Thursday, 9 July	The output side of the nervous system: autonomy, homeostasis, distributed systems, genes/learning, models	Human neurodiversity, project time
Friday, 10 July	The output side, continued: the cognitive unconscious and the I-function	Neurodiversity and education, project progress discussions

Monday, 13 July	The input side of the nervous system: "reality" and expectation, multiple perspectives and diversity, story telling	Emergent pedagogy reviewed
Tuesday, 14 July	The input side of the nervous system: "reality" and expectation, multiple perspectives and diversity, story telling II	Web project time
Wednesday, 15 July	From inputs to story	Web project time
Thursday, 16 July	Interactions of the cognitive unconscious and the story teller	Web project time
Friday, 17 July	Implications for education	Seeing what has been done
rescheduled	Neurons and how they work: autonomy, variability, inhibition Generalized control mechanisms: mood, emotion, creativity, self

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Opportunity for kids- pass it on!

Submitted by RecycleJack Marine on Tue, 07/14/2009 - 10:14pm.

Opportunity FYI for kids

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Submitted by Jacob Marine on Tue, 07/14/2009 - 9:45pm.

Hi Everyone,

I hope you can help me spread the word to any 13-17 year olds that you know (and their parents)... The MEERWALD is scheduled to leave on two awesome summer camps - July 20-24th from Liberty State Park to Beach Haven and July 27-31 from Beach Haven to Cape May. Each is a Monday through Friday with a special sail for the parents of the campers on Friday afternoon.

There are a bunch of spaces left and we are offering a $150 'Recession Discount' to anyone who books between now and the start of camp. Regularly $750, now $600 for 5 days and 4 nights of potentially life-changing experiences -- character building, challenging, educational and FUN!

Kids get to be in tune with their natural surroundings in a way that is nearly impossible in this digital age. At sea, they learn teamwork, environmental ethics and accountability all while experiencing life as it was in the age of sail - surrounded by beauty, accompanied by dolphins at times, learning the age old maritime skills practiced by our fore bearers for centuries. The schooner is a microcosm of the planet - serving as a hands on environmental/marine laboratory as days are framed by the wind, tides, weather and shipboard rituals.

In addition to the $150 off, there are several additional scholarships to kids willing to submit an application.

Please help me spread the word - I hate for these camps to go without a boatload of kids.

Thanks!

Meghan E. Wren
Executive Director
Bayshore Discovery Project
2800 High Street, Bivalve
Port Norris, NJ 08349
856.785.2060 x106

What is our brain telling us? What are we telling our students?

Submitted by RecycleJack Marine on Tue, 07/14/2009 - 10:08pm.

What comes into ouir head through our eyes is just a part of what the brain uses to interpret what the real word is about. Humans have developed perceptions based in the amount of light let in by our eyes, but the brain uses other tools to tell us what we are seeing. Stephanie Wall (BMC biology student) wrote in 2002: "Ordinary reality, then, can be defined as the best sense the brain can make at a given time about fundamentally ambiguous information from the physical world. "*

In the classroom, students may look at us as if we are fundamentally ambiguous! Students then make whatever sense they can of what we are teaching, and apply this to their schematic memory- if they understand what we're talking about!

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