educational research
What Does Brain Research Have to Say About Our Teaching?
Posted by David Wees on Sep 3, 2010
My head of school started the beginning of the year by talking about brain based research. He was told in a session he participated in during the summer that the use of sarcasm in a classroom can hamper learning. The reason for this issue with sarcasm is that, according to the presenter, negative emotional responses shut down the higher level functions of the brain and force the brain into "fight or flight" mode, during which very little learning can take place.
According to Diane Connell, there are 11 principles of brain-based learning:
Massively collaborative educational research
Posted by David Wees on Apr 2, 2010
The book Wikinomics has really got me thinking about how collaboration happens in our society. One of the area where I think massive collaboration would be really useful, but where it is underutilized is in the area of educational research. Imagine the power of collaboration that we could have if hundreds of educators collaborated to run a research study.
Disclaimer: The ideas discussed on this blog are my own, and in no way represent those of my employer.
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