janet fulks, bakersfield college asccc north area representative
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Janet Fulks, Bakersfield CollegeASCCC North Area Representative
The Art of Changing the Brain by Zull How People Learn by the National Research
Council
Scientific Teaching by Jo Handelsman et al.
Back page of Chapter 5
Learning and memory require physical changes in the neurons of the brain
Requires organizing and linking knowledge for later retrieval
I will read some numbers, you remember them
Patterning and organization Concrete words and abstract words versus
nonsense words
Infection Syphilis Treponema pallidum
Visualization – metrics and real life How do you create patterning in your
teaching?
When we are Motivated Immersed Emotional
Types of Memory Explicit or specific – facts or events (words
and events) Implicit or perceptual – Skills, Sensory,
Emotive and Physical responses
cAMP (cyclic AMP) & responsive binding protein (CREB)
Calcium Corticosteroids
People learn better when there is something to heighten the emotions – mild stress
People learn least well when the emotion is fear When multiple neural pathways are created What do you do to create an environment that
stimulates all areas of response?
True False
False – memorization can compartmentalize thinking
True False
False – acclimatization, inoculation, rote memory
Misconceptions
Preconceptions
Metacognition
Learning Styles
True False
False – page 42 of Chapter 5 – A Private Universe
Share your discipline Share a misconception students have in
your discipline Share a method to change this
Primitive Brain controlling vital functions- think vegetable
Breathing Consciousness Heart Rate and Blood Pressure Relaying information Digestion Alertness
Center for movement control – think repetitive skills
Voluntary muscle movements Fine motor skills Maintaining balance, posture, and equilibrium
Frontal Lobe
The front of the brain –largest surface area
Touch Vision Hearing Judgment Reasoning Problem solving Emotions Learning
Right side controls the left side of the body, creativity and artistic abilities
Left cerebral hemisphere controls the right side of the body, logic and rational thinking.
Lobes have different functions◦ Frontal lobes are involved with personality,
speech, and motor development ◦ Temporal lobes are responsible for memory,
language and speech functions ◦ Parietal lobes are involved with sensation ◦ Occipital lobes are the primary vision centers
Frontal LobeAssociation, personality Broca’s speech center
Parietal LobeSpeech and Reading
Temporal LobeSmelling and Hearing
Occipital LobeVisual
Assessments are actually a learning tool, but provide a way to visualize that learning.
Students must be conscious and attentive to their own learning strategies.
Addressing self-regulated learning is the primary responsibility of the Academic Development and Counseling departments.
Learning strategies that include working in competitive learning teams, is more effective than working in non-competitive teams.
Please link to the image of Kolb’s learning cycle overlaid on the anatomy of the brain called “Learning through a virtuous Learning Cycle” from Dr. James Zull, Professor of Biology and Biochemistry at Case Western University, Director of UCITE (The University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education), and Professor of a Human Learning and The Brain class.
Learning is physical. Learning means the modification, growth, and pruning of our neurons, connections–called synapses– and neuronal networks, through experience.
Four stages of the Learning Cycle.1) We have a Concrete experience,2) We develop Reflective Observation and Connections,3) We generate Abstract hypothesis,4) We then do Active testing of those hypotheses, and therefore have a new
http://sharpbrains.wordpress.com/2006/10/12/an-ape-can-do-this-can-we-not/
Key conditions for teaching:realize the brain is a parallel processor – create an environment – How do you do this in your class?
learning engages physiology – How do you create the conditions for chemicals and multiple processing?
learning is enhanced by challenge and inhibited by fear
How do you do this in your class?
Key conditions for learning and self perpetuating the learning cycle:
self-regulated learning (SRL)ownership/metacognitiondeep learning – implicitscaffolding
Create outcomesDevelop contentEmbed metacognition activitiesCreate learning activitiesManage the environment
teamworkAssessment – See article chapter 5 Appendix