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

Become a Better Learner: Unleash Your Brain

Peer Mentoring Services Workshop
Bryn Mawr College
16 March 2005

The student (and teacher and ...) as brain

 

The Brain - is wider than the Sky -
For - put them side by side -
The one the other will contain
With ease - and You - beside-
.......... Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

Education as applied neurobiology

http://serendipstudio.org/reflections/brained/22jan04/
http://serendipstudio.org/local/suminst/eei01/pginquiry

The brain as a story-teller:
from a "reflex machine" to a semi-autonomous, evolving, creative agent

Biology 202, Neurobiology and Behavior
Some relevant observations
Using the loop in practice
Using the loop in practice II

The brain/student as an active learner
(http://serendipstudio.org/sci_edu/brainedparallels.html)


The Brain as Modeller AND Story Teller: Evidence for the creative, bipartite brain

(http://serendipstudio.org/bb/blindspot1.html)


(http://serendipstudio.org/bb/freewill1.html)

The brain/student as both experiencer and thinker

http://serendipstudio.org/~pgrobste/artscience/
http://serendipstudio.org/bb/ambigfig
Getting It Less Wrong, The Brain's Way: Science, Pragmatism, and Multiplism
The Bipartite Brain

The Brain as a Story Teller/Listener/Sharer




The brain/student as both learner and teacher

The Bottom line

  • Be active rather than passive
  • Have experiences, think about them, make up your own stories about them, test those stories
  • Learn by listening to and comparing your stories to those of others (both teachers and students)



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