april 9, 2009 edutopia webinar: "how the brain learns best: strategies to make learning...

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How the Brain Learns Best:

Strategies to MakeLearning Stick

Webinar ID: 142-908-197 / Dial-in: (312) 878-0211/ Code: 556-344-107


Webinar Protocols

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How the Brain Learns Best:

Strategies to MakeLearning Stick

Webinar ID: 142-908-197 / Dial-in: (312) 878-0211/ Code: 556-344-107


Dr. Judy Willismiddle school teacher, neurologist, and authority on

learning-centered brain research

of Milton


Influencing the Brain’sStructure and Function

What information gets into students’brains, and where it goes

Encourage productive response tolearning: reflective, not reactive

Increasing students' ability to learn(and retain) new skills and information


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Pathway to Conscious Thinking in the Prefrontal Cortex


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To get to the

conscious,

reflective,

thinking brain,

sensory input

must first be

unconsciously

be “selected.”


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Survival First.

Reduce Stress: Input can gothrough the RAS to the

reflective brain.


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RA RAS Interventions

Stability and Familiarity

Then stimulate Curiosity

with Change, Novelty, &

SuRPrise!S


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“The force will be with you.”


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AMYGDALA


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!mygdal"#mo$onal Fil%r and Conduc&'

Stressed state: input directed to

reactive brain =fight/flight/freeze

Relaxed, alert state: input goes to

reflective brain


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Responds to: interest, relevance,pleasure

Classroom strategies:advertising, HERE/ME/NOW,personalization, multisensory

AMYGDALA


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A: POSITIVE EMOTIONAL STATE – OPENS AMYGDALA TO PFC = BETTER MEMORY RETENTION

B: STRESSED STATE – NO PASSAGE TO PFC = LESS SHORT-TERM & LONG-TERM MEMORY

Adapted from Hamman, et al., Cognitive Neuroscience


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PERSONALIZEEVERY 10 MINUTES

Pause for destressing(boredom/frustration)

with help, encouragement, orenrichment

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STRATEGY TO

DECREASE STRESS


PERSONALIZATION


PERSONALIZATION

strategy

KID WATCHINGStudent: MarkSport: Soccer

Favorite food: PizzaDog: Rex


SYN-NAPSBALL TOSS REVIEW


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The amazing do-it-yourselfbrain surgery of

NEUROPLASTICITY


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STRATEGYSTRATEGY

ANALOGIES WITH SOMETHING STUDENTANALOGIES WITH SOMETHING STUDENT

PICKS FROM BAG OF SURPRISE ITEMSPICKS FROM BAG OF SURPRISE ITEMS

““MY BRAIN IS LIKE THIS LITTLE TREE,MY BRAIN IS LIKE THIS LITTLE TREE,

IT GROWS MORE BRANCHES WHEN I CONNECT NEWIT GROWS MORE BRANCHES WHEN I CONNECT NEW

IDEAS TO THINGS I ALREADY KNOW.IDEAS TO THINGS I ALREADY KNOW.””


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Thank you for sharing your time with me —

and for caring about the students you teach.

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”

—Margaret Mead


Q&A

Please use the Questions pane on the right to submitany questions you may have.

We will choose the most common questions to address.

For all unanswered questions, we encourage you tocontinue the discussion online at edutopia.org/webinar-discussion-april-2009.


Contact Information

To contact or find out more about Dr. Judy Willis,visit RADTeach.com

For articles, book chapters, and upcomingpresentations

To continue the discussion online, visitedutopia.org/webinar-discussion-april-2009


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