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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: ,

Learning about learning

This week I attended back-to-back conferences on learning and the brain. The first was held at my favorite art-place, the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore. I got a few tips on how to space my study hours and what not to say about “learning styles.” You can see my giant story on it on [...]

Posted 09 May 2010 † nickyp § Brain science § Learning ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Machines and learning

Someday, socially engaging robots that provide an individualized curriculum for every student could transform the future of education, Terrence J. Sejnowski tells the Dana Foundation in an interview this week. Sejnowski founded Neural Computation, the top journal in neural networks and computational neuroscience, and has developed pioneering algorithms for decades. In this Q&A, he talks [...]

Posted 03 September 2009 † nickyp § Brain science § Learning ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Arts training changes your brain

Over at the Dana Foundation site, there’s a package of news and commentaries (with more coming) on “neuro-education,” the effects of arts training on the brain and the use of what we know about the brain to improve how we teach. Stories include: NEWS: Attention May Link Arts and Intelligence Arts education causes “profound changes” [...]

Posted 13 May 2009 † nickyp § Brain science § Learning ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , ,