EDUCATIONAL STRATEGIES: what

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EDUCATIONAL STRATEGIESwhats the brain got to
do with it?

• Brain function
• Attention
• Memory

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BRAIN DIAGRAM
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HEARING WORDS
SEEING WORDS

• Hearing words creates hot spots mainly in the
  temporal lobe of the cortex. Seeing words mainly
  involves areas in the occipital lobes.

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THALAMUS TEENAGEATTENTION-GETTING REGION
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LIMBIC SYSTEM- TEEN THINKING CENTER

• EMOTIONS
• MOTIVATION MORE LESS
• EMOTIONAL ASSOCIATION

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Long Term Memory
External Stimulus
Sensory Memory
Retrieval
Initial Processing
Coding
Working Memory
Forgotten
Repetition
Forgotten
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LEARNING MEMORY

• Learning A change in the nervous system caused
  by some event that in turn causes a change in
  behavior.
• Learning in nervous system Requires a change in
  the physical structure or biochemistry of a
  synapse. Process is called
• synaptic plasticity.

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LEARNING MEMORY

• A group of neurons is repeatedly activated by new
  stimuli.
• Synaptic connections between them will be
  strengthened.
• Circuit will contain the new information.
• Neurons that fire together-
• wire together.

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LEARNING MEMORYSTRATEGIES

• Positive Climate
• Global thinking/connections
• Predictions
• Undivided Attention
• Higher Motivation-Goals
• Directed Focus

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Retention During Learning Episode
Prime-time-1
Prime-time-2
Degree of Retention
Down-time
0 10 20 30 40
Time in Minutes
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Levels of Concern vs. Degree of Learning
Degree of learning
Level of Concern
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Hake (1998)
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Types of Assessments

• ONE-Minute Paper End of class- Brief check of
  student understanding
• Muddiest Point End of class- check
  muddy/misunderstanding
• METHODS
• One-Sentence Summary
• Directed Paraphrasing of concept
• Classroom Opinion Polls

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INTERACTIVE NATURE OF HIGHER LEVEL LEARNING by L.
Dee Fink
Content Driven Teaching-centered Instruction
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THROUGHOUT CLASS

• THE PRIMARY GOAL IS
• ACTIVE LEARNING
• NOT THIS---

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