Transcript ppt - The Center for Effective Learning

Brain Updates
Sue Pearson
Linda Jordan
The Center for Effective Learning
Agenda
Welcome
Brain Review
The Brain
Closing
Resources
The Brain at
School
Sense of Belonging
As you have new experiences the brain
grows dendrites.
As a result of your trip to Huntington, Indiana
what new experiences have grown
dendrites for you?
Share a travel story with your elbow partner.
Brain Review
Lobes of the Brain
Communication of Neurons
Environmental Factors Affecting
the Growing Brain
Emotion
laden
messages
Greater stress,
threat, and
violence
Less physical
activity, more TV
Rapidly
changing inputMTV
Variation in
family pattern
Diet, nutrition,
and drugs
—David Sousa, 1998
Amygdala
•The psychological sentinel of the brain because it plays a
major role in the control of emotion.
•It is connected to many parts of the brain and plays a critical
part in learning, cognition and emotional memories.
Hippocampus
•It helps us remember events in recent past, as well as
responsible for sending new information and experiences
to be stored in the cortex in long-term memory.
•Critical to learning and memory formation.
Reticular Activating System
•The RAS receives information from all over the body and
acts as a central, initial regulator for attention, arousal, sleepwakefulness and consciousness. Uses this information to
change the cell excitation to meet the changing conditions in
the environment.
•It filters out distractions or trivial sensory information.
OBJECT
TEAPOT
HAIRBRUSH
CHAIR
CAT
DOG
FAMILY
COMPUTER
TRANSPORTATION
LAW
SCHOOL
POLITICAL
SYSTEM
ACTION
RUNNING
WALKING
SKIPPING
JUMPING
SWIMMING
PATTERN
SEEKING...
I ME,
YOU
DADDY
MOMMY
HOT, COOL
TOMORROW
YESTERDAY
OLD, NEW
RELATIONSHIP
PROCEDURE
GETTING DRESSED
GOING TO THE STORE
DRIVING A CAR
SHOWERING
PARTY:
Birthday
Halloween
Christmas
Graduation
GOING TO SCHOOL
TAKING A TEST
MEETING A STRANGER
SITUATION
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EE p. 4.4
Mirror Neurons in the Brain
A new class of brain cells -- mirror neurons
are active both when people perform an
action and when they watch it being
performed.
The Brain at School
What Can Educators Do?
• Teach the Brain Research
• Exercise
• Nutrition
• Read/Research/Resources
Teaching the Brain Research
• Brain Dissections
– Wards Natural Supply
• Begin the Year with Brain Information
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Brain Structures and impact on learning
Mirror Neurons
Nutrition
Exercise
• Stay Current
Sedentary Students
• 7.5 hours a day screen time
• 30% of US schoolchildren are
overweight-6X more than 1980
• 2001 fit kids scored 2X on academic tests
as their unfit peers
STRESS
• Chronic stress can tear at the architecture
of the brain
• Exercise controls the emotional and
physical feelings of stress
• Any degree of stress activates brain
systems
– Attention, energy, memory
• Regular aerobic activity calms the body
It’s what happens after exercise that
optimizes the brain
• Increases energy production at a
intercellular level
• Chews up waste
• Triggering production of insulin
• Increases BDNF production
• All together helps make bloom and
prevent the damage of chronic stress
Current Trends in Nutrition
• 11% of children under the age of 2 eat french
fries daily
• 24% eat hot dogs daily
• Many consume soft drinks regularly
• Many families do not eat together
• Children eat on the floor in front of the TV, while
playing video games or at a computer
• Many different foods prepared for individual
family members.
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(Fox, Pac, Devaney, & Jankowski, 2009)
• 1970 Americans spent about $6 billion on
fast food
• 2001 Americans spent more than $110
billion on fast food
• Americans now spend more money on fast
food than on higher education, personal
computers, computer software, or new cars.
• They spend more on fast food than on
movies, books, magazines, newspapers,
videos, and recorded music---combined
• (Fast Food Nation)
Resources
• Brain Connection: dedicated to providing accessible,
high-quality information about how the brain works and
how people learn. ttp://brainconnection.positscience.com/
• Sharp Brains: a leading market research and advisory
services firm covering the growing cognitive fitness
market. http://www.sharpbrains.com/
• Dana Foundation: supports brain research through
grants and educates the public
http://www.dana.org/Default.aspx
Resources
• Society for Neuroscience: advance the understanding of
the brain http://web.sfn.org/
• Brainy Kids: part of the brainconnection website
http://www.dana.org/resources/brainykids/
• Neuroscience for Kids: facts, games, contests
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/neurok.html
• NIH: National Institute of Health: curriculum
http://tinyurl.com/yavjpwh
Reflection/Discussion
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Stand
Walk and touch 7 chairs
Form groups of 2-3
Share your ah-ha’s, questions,
wonderments
• What will you do as a result of being here
today?
The brain is like a muscle.
When it is in use
we feel very good.
Carl Sagan