BRAINLANDING

…edited by Pina Fico, Palma Caiazza primary school teachers, and prof. Paolo Manzelli Director of the Educational Research Laboratory

of the University of Florence (Italy) Coord. Prog. Qualità dott..Angela Orabona Ufficio Scolastico Regionale per la Campania

HEADMASTER

Mr. ERNESTO SALERNO

PRIMARY SCHOOL in GRUMO NEVANO (a little Town near NEAPLES, ITALY)

You are all invited to visit <<BRAINLANDING>>

 an ideal place for a TOUR of EXPERIENCES...

http://www.circolodidattico-grumonevano.it

BRAINLANDING

aims to underline the cognitive strategies to learn in a creative way,

 filtering stimuli and method of rote-learning, that influence the brain plasticity.

PROJECT “BRAINLANDING”:

OBJECTIVES”BRAINLANDING is a Project of a Primary school

in Grumo Nevano (Neaples). It works for improving creativeness in the primary school system,

favouring interest in living sciences and trying to retain a spirit of discovery. It aims to open the pupil’s minds to a

divergent thinking beyond the limited mechanical principles of science

understanding and the habitual persectives of traditional science instruction on problem solving.

Pupils learn how to use at the best their convergent skills (Left Brain)

and also about the “Mirror Neurons” interactivity, in order to put such

brain abilities into concrete solutions.

Creativeness is indeed focused on understanding: before the “problem solving”

you have to recognize the “problem posing” so that the utilization of all brain functions can help

the growth of the pupils’ intelligence, and also the adults’ one since they learn about the Life Sciences, including Neurology

advanced knowledge, through a childlike curiosity.

COGNITIVE RELEVANCE

of the “BRAINLANDING”

Project

Free will can be an illusion, because human freedom need a very high level of  consciousness. If a man/woman

  will  have more freedom in his/her mind, he/she will be responsible for proper actions.

The real freedom of the proper thought can be easily achieved through the knowledge of the brain functioning.

At this point it will be useful to remember that the scientist Gordon Shaw  (http://www.mindinstitute.net/MIND3/research/research.php )

from the fNMR Brain Imagin techniques demonstrated that the Left Brain Hemisphere (LBS) is more functional to rhythm’s time analysis, while the Right Brain Hemisphere (RBS)  is more perceptive to the harmonic space

integration.On the light of such brain discoveries it is possible to see how the school

traditional teaching process places an overwhelming

emphasis  on the convergent analytical brain functioning through a method of problem solving, while

the brain creativeness needs to see at the same time how to overcome

the problems and how to solve them. Therefore pupils need to exercise with a proper balance both

the brain functioning, i.e. of the Convergent (LBH) and Divergent (RBH) functional  types.

The traditional school attentionat the problem solving can indeed generate an inhibition

of the complemented functioning of the brain right hemisphere.

Today the continuous society changes need a better understanding

of brain’s complemented functioning, so that unconventional teaching methods need to be open to a conscious knowledge of brain potentiality. That’s the essence of BRAINLANDING, a

project realized in an integrated e-learning cooperation between

the LRE/EGOCREANET of the University of Florence and the Primary School of Grumo Nevano (Neaples) in Italy.  

 

COME IN, BRAIN! The BRAIN really works  

through LEARNING.

The entire process cannot be shown, but the routes are well structured 

to make the claim to memories easier, and if they are repetitive they cause a

conditioningin everyone’s mind.

The cultural identity of a person is a generator

of comparisons and sharing.

1-The Big Brains track 2-The Big Brains’ Map 3-Brain and Music 4-The fantastic world of Brainlanding 5-Photographilandia in the world of Brainlanding 6-The Brain’s time 7-Information and Brain 8-Mother Brain and her two little Brains9-The yearbook of 5^B (teachers: Vergara-Maisto)10-Brainlandingrap (ins.Mg.Cristiano)

Prof. PAOLO MANZELLI from his scientific-technological laboratory held over our children with his enthusiasm.

TIME IS AN INFORMATION GOING TOWARDS THE FUTURE

This project has already developed:

He always says to us :

A tour of experience in the world of BRAINLANDING

Prof. PAOLO MANZELLI LRE ego-CreaNET University of Florence

(Italy)

Ins.Pina Fico

•

Welcome to the

CREATIVE

SYSTEM WORKSHOP

OF ATTENTION

Follow the BIG BRAINS’ MAP

In the house of BIG BRAIN

lives the ATTENTION, that

causes a great curiosity.

The little tourists are visiting the centre Of Neuro-biotic ATTENTION

Children … follow then

the right track and

above all try to understand

straightaway!

It’s the Brain to manipulate

everything… even the attention

process.It works indeed on its system of REACTION-ACTION Let’s find out

how…

It’s really necessary to know

this world in detail !

In the house of ATTENTION

Management of the Big Brain

Information start the ATTENTION but they are immediately caught

by the brain. Let’s see how…

Information data go on a path called Down-Top.

The Basal Ganglia, made of grey matter, deal with physical information . They convey everything to the ATTENTION through a bundle of nerves .

On a trip to…Down-Top

The ATTENTION has

got its supplemented centre in the area where the eyes meet with the nose.

From the outside…

From the inside of the skull…

The ATTENTION is between the upper cerebral hemispheres, where reasoning and

emotions work.

Data, after reaching the centre of the ATTENTION, are under the sensory and emotional control of the THALAMUS.

Now there are two tracks :

1. The track to INFORMATION going towards the upper cerebral hemispheres

2. The track to ATTENTION that restrains itself .

From the world of INFORMATION

In this case, the stalked pontine core of the Tegmanto, put as a

roof on the basal Ganglia, turns off the stimulus and

there is the all clear signal.

When information

does not need any more reflection there is

no creativeness.

If the circuit of ATTENTION is used in an inappropriate way you get a

short circuit: all our

thinking system is blocked

REASONING runs out

In the area of the upper cerebral

hemispheres creativeness

does not develop

the school has to support creativeness

At school• if the attention is blocked and restrained,

• if you get on only with rote-learning

the reflection system collapses

Habit phenomenon

In a class working with an open circuit of the ATTENTION SYSTEM, REASONING will not crash, on the contrary, Big Brain will be empowered.

There is so a change in our reality …it’s the

EUROPEAN SOCIETY of ECONOMY of the KNOWDLEDGE

The trip is over and the INFORMATION you received are

sweet SOUVENIRS from the ATTENTION WORKSHOP

GOODBYE!!! We are the Band of BIG BRAINS

The Big Brains track

From the project BRAINLANDING

The Big Brains track

We live happily In a tiny school

Come with us to discover its marvels!

School is a very special place …if

It goes round the world of

BRAINLANDING

For Primary School Classes 1^2^3^ Circolo didattico Pascoli Grumo Nevano (NA)

Ins..PINA FICO

Here it is a loving PROJECT

from a school aiming to be perfect

On tiptoes we get in,On tiptoes we sit down.

This is the world we are loking for,it’s the kingdom of the little computers,

The dream of every children.

Among classrooms, yards and flowerbeds

there is a great laboratory:It is the control room,

It is the big brains room…

BRAIN is mysterious

but… it can organize your life

Because it adapts itself to the world changes

You are different from a long time ago child and do you know why??????

Prof. Manzelli from the University of Florence says that the brain structure has changed ,

it’s always running behind its own time .

When it cannot answer to all your questions

It makes you look for the MECHANICAL LITTLE BRAIN.

EHI YOU do you want to become a BIG BRAIN?!?

FOLLOW THE NEW TRACK…

The history of

MECHANICAL LITTLE BRAIN

Once upon a time, in a special kingdom called <<NEW TECHNOLOGIES>>, there was a pile of irons.

In the laboratory there were many operators, technicians, scientists…

One looked, one thought, another one touched

One spoke, one wrote, another one formulated…

They put all the pieces together

Assembled everything perfectly

until a click of joy!!!!!! shook all the experts

It was born! LITTLE BRAIN was born

In the nursery of the baby-computers!

CERVELLINO

This is the history of PERFECT BRAIN and of MECHANICAL LITTLE BRAIN

LET’S GO TOWARDS TECHNOLOGICAL FUTURE

They meet in a particular moment in the multimedia hall.

HELLO!- BRAIN saysCLICK!!!- LITTLE BRAIN answersOnly a second and…here it is!It is nice to communicate,So many information to get and give,spending some time together …To click, to print, to play…

They never get tired to be together!

They hold hands,a tender FRIENDSHIP was born.

One is necessary to the other one.Nobody can keep them apart .

Days go by, months fly away, the year slides quickly… and the magic box of the

PERFECT BRAIN fills up more and more.By the end of June it is filled with the letters

of the alphabet, whimsical words,coloured thoughts, numbers full of value,

delicious lectures, astonishing images…

yet Only one has got a

HEART…

In the school of BRAINLANDING

they tell a story to make us realize that life is beautiful!

The brain can cry and sleep ,

It can laugh and be happy, can think and act.

OUR BRAIN at the beginning is a tiny little

thing , it’s empty, it’s not ready yet but. . .

as a big box it fills up more and more everyday .

Then it begins to explore… until nothing else can

stop it.

Its memory is a store-room filling with many wonders. There is a bit of everything!.

You can even find the first memory: A place, a perfume, a noise,An image, a flower.

OUR BRAIN OUR BRAIN is a very specialis a very special engine engine it has got your eyes to it has got your eyes to look at, your ears to listen to,look at, your ears to listen to,

your little nose to smell, your your little nose to smell, your tongue to taste,tongue to taste,

Your hands to touch…Your hands to touch…

But But OUR BRAINOUR BRAIN

Wants only and Wants only and always to think!always to think!

OPEN THE MEMORIES’ BOX AND YOU’LL FIND OUT…

They are all here!!!

•FARAWAY MEMORIES

•RECENT MEMORIES

•MEMORIES OF LITTLE EVENTS

A LONG TIME AGO

A SHORT TIME AGO

PARTICULAR MOMENTS

This is the memory that helps the brain to remember.

Magic formulas click… you can live those moments again, you can jump in the TIME…

!oh wat a wonder!

IT’S MY LIFE!

This box is precious!

SENSES switch on

The PAST IMAGES can be seen again

EMOTIONS can be lived again, JOYS and FEARS…

CLOSE YOUR EYES so you can

see it ALL again!

It looks like a MAGIC… but it’s only the work of a PERFECT MACHINE!

In the world of BRAINLANDING there is a workshop of PHOTOGRAPHILANDIA .

In every moment of the day you can take PICTURES.

In the BIG BRAIN’S house special lights turn on to activate the world of INFORMATION in order to get news

BRAIN is always very hungry : it eats INFORMATION

coming from the outside world

The poor thing is bombarded with so many news and nobody understands it!

It’s often full up, it has

got a swollen belly, and … at school

sometimesdoes not win.

What a pity !!!

TOO MANY INFORMATION= LITTLE

KNOWLEDGE

School must do something! It has to give order to all the news in

our minds!

The child going to school before you had a book, a dictionary, an encyclopedia not always up to date. His brain WENT on his own, with nobody’s help… always touring the world.

Nowadays you are a special pupil: the world gets to you with a click! And …here it is! Uuhhhh …how many information, how many news and what nonsense! Oh! What a confusion! Someone has to do something ,your head can explode. red light goes off on the

trackstop! It’s time to go to school!

School puts everything in its own place.

Teachers say to everyone :

-stop with the bore! Stop with the yawnings!

It’s time to discover the children’s world!

The new QUESTIONS, the new THEORIES , the new CERTAINTIES come from prof. PAOLO MANZELLI, that from his laboratory EGOCREANET started our curiosity and pulled out of our bodily box an extraordinary THINKING BRAIN!

THE MAIN CHARACTERS OF A NEVER ENDING STORY

Ci presentiamo   siamo i due Cervellini e viviamo nel grembo

della mamma... How do you do? I’m Mummy Brain

that isthe Intelligence of the Nature

           

Manzelli’s thought: It is well known that man, the speaking being above all

others, developed a prominence of the left brain hemisphere. Nevertheless his two brain HEMISPHERES have to work

together, in order to express also the intuitive capacities of the right

hemisphere. The closed and limited logic is over.And here it comes Brain-landing.

  In my womb live the twins Blue little Brain  

and Pink Little Brain  looking for a new knowledge.

Here they are my Little Brains! They are the same for

genetics but very different indeed and their brain activities

are different too.

Kids learn very quickly, the young have more creative capacities,

the adults experience, instead, a fall in their capacities.  

On the grounds of science, the potential of the children’s brain

is definitely superior than that of the adults’, and a superficial factual knowledge learning 

causes a passive taking on and a conditioning of the cognitive development.

Teachers,through the learning,

recognize the young intellectual capacities and set them off, because they know that a conscious learning helps the

forming of their character.

All the connections with the world  have to deepen

to better understand the meaning of existence and

of becoming aMAN in the UNIVERSE.

SCHOOL NEWSCreated in order to filter the information

coming from the MASS MEDIA

Our SCHOOL NEWS allow our pupils to manage the outside world in a creative

way.

Mass media can greatly condition our minds, we can loose our critical ability;

the school task is to improve the dialogue, the comparison and the sharing of interactive knowledge.

YOUNG REPORTERS on a special mission

 SPECIAL EDITION <<BRAINLANDING in the world...>>

On the schedule there are interviews to prof.MANZELLI and all pedagogistionline

NOBEL

IN COOPERATION WITH UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE

PRIMARY SCHOOL GRUMO NEVANO

D.S. prof. ERNESTO SALERNO

School Year

2004-05/

In collaboration with

PROF. Paolo Manzelli

CLASS Pupil’s name …………………………………………………………………....

Award for merit

Project BRAINLANDING

Coord.Prog.Qualità dott.Angela Orabona

Ufficio Scolastico Regionale

per la Campania

PRIZE

GRUMO NEVANO NEAPLES ITALY

PRIMARY SCHOOL

BRAINLANDING