Transcript Dia 1 - VIEKAS

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Paolo Manzelli [email protected], Giuseppe Lugano [email protected]
Introduction to the
BRAIN LANDING PROJECT
based on
NEUROBIOLOGY OF LEARNING AND MEMORY
University of Florence – EGOCREANET Telematic Association
Elementary School of Grumo Nevano (Neaples) Italy
HEINOLA – Communication Camp (www.viekas.fi) - Finland
12 June 2005
BRAIN IMAGE
Mission:
 Brain Landing Project
is focused on helping
children to learn and
improve their mental
health within a
conscious creativity
collaborative process.
BRAIN EVOLUTION –
New Contents and Methods
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Pupils learn basic knowledge of
neurobiology of learning and
memory to understand consciously
their growing ability of thinking
process and to acquire new skills by
technological use of computers in
internet. The education path is
developed by means of distance
learning and data exchange
between Ego-creanet members of
the University of Florence and the
research teaching team of the
Elementary school of Grumo
Nevano (Naples).
GROWING UP DENDRITES
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Goal : Building Collaborative Memory processes in internet.
There are two ways to utilize the memory development in the learning
processes.
Short Term Memory (STM)
Long Term Memory (LTM)
Normally the traditional education systems prefer the individual reinforcement
of (LTM) using the old methodology named in Latin language “REPETITA
JUVANT”
In spite of this old tradition the Brain Landing project takes in consideration the
contemporary need of improving the SHORT TERM MEMORY processes. As a
matter of fact, in the Information Society LTM can be externalized in the
computers linked in internet, opening new dynamics of collaborative learning.
Short  Long Term Memory
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STM collaborative
exercises are becoming
very important for
growing up
“BRAIN´s PLASTICITY”.
Plasticity of brain is a
function of a very large cooperation among neurons by
means of integration of
various functional areas of
the brain, as we can see by
the Brain Imaging
Techniques. (ex.: f.NMR)
Donald Hebb
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The famous Neurologist Donald Hebb (1949) discovered
the effect of simultaneous activation of dendrites and
wrote “ NEURONS THAT FIRE TOGHETER WIRE
TOGETHER”
this means that a resonance effect improves the
simultaneous action potential reinforcing the STM in
learning processes. Hence the PLASTICITY of the brain
is becoming a function of the best utilization of STM.
In short and in practice, those brain notions tell us
that creative plasticity of the brain learning
activities are becoming a function of a
collaborative sharing of knowledge.
www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Archive/hebb.html
BRAIN´s CHANGES
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Sharing knowledge is a contemporary fundamental need
for growing up the European Knowledge Society.
Therefore we need to improve consciously a “critical change” in
educational contents and methods through improving children’s
SHORT TERM MEMORY SKILLS AND ABILITIES, so that they will
be able to develop together a more reactive co-operative
intelligence and conscious creativity.
This approach is oriented to favour a change in the memory
processes of contemporary learning and is the main result
expected by the BRAIN LANDING elementary school project.
See the following presentation made by the teachers’
“experimental research team” of the GRUMO NEVANO
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PROJECT IN ITALY.