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Learning about learning

Remember those photos from Aspen? Here’s a post for the Dana Foundation blog on what I was doing there, work-wise: How does school work, brain-wise? Do children teach themselves or is it something about the instruction that gets their brains firing and wiring faster? Last fall, a few hundred neuroscientists, teachers, and curriculum-makers met for [...]

Posted 27 January 2012 † nickyp § Brain science § Learning ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Active Learning

[by me for the Dana Foundation blog. See more great stuff there!] Despite falling SAT scores and employers reporting that high-school grads can’t run the cash register, researchers, educators, and parents each have some pieces of the puzzle of how children learn best. But somehow, all these experts don’t always share what they know. Consider [...]

Posted 19 September 2011 † nickyp § Brain science § Just fun § Playing ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Old and bitter

I love the audio and video courses I get from the Teaching Company; they distract me when I’m exercising and often challenge my preconceptions about history, science and music. But my first one on writing, Building Great Sentences: Exploring the Writer’s Craft, also brought up some decades-old and nearly-forgotten anger and resentment. Turns out there [...]

Posted 04 February 2009 † nickyp § Learning § Thinking § Writing ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

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