Rule #6 - Remember to repeat.
My take aways:
1. Long term memories become short term memories again when we recall them. That’s important because it means that in order for that memory to be set back into long term storage it must go through the whole process of consolidation again. This seems counter intuitive to me. [...]
Rule #5 - Repeat to remember.
My take aways:
1. Information that gets into my brain is sliced up in many different small parts and sent to different areas even though the information fits together. So the information for how I go about singing a certain piece is stored all over my brain. Pieces about correct diction [...]
Rule #4 : We don’t pay attention to boring things.
My take aways:
1. I should structure my lesson into10 minutes segments of time. I did this often during my first few years of teaching. I only see my students for 20 or 30 minutes twice a week. Using this format helped me as the teacher to [...]
Rule #3: Every brain is wired differently.
Lots of really interesting technical information in this chapter. While I enjoyed reading it I’m still sifting out what parts of it will benefit my teaching.
My Take Aways:
1. Did you know the information about vowels and the information about consonants are stored in different places in our brains? And [...]
I didn’t find this chapter to be really earth shattering. So here we go my three take aways:
1. We have three brains. That’s an interesting way of thinking about what our brain does for us. I know I learned all this stuff in high school but it’s nice to be reminded.
Our Brain Video
2. Music has [...]
I’ve started reading 12 Brain Rules by John Medina. My goal will be to post 3 main points from each chapter. Today is Chapter 1 - Exercise.
Rule #1 - Exercise boots brain power.
Exercise video
1. Our bodies think better when we move daily. Did you know in our caveman days we walked between 10 and 12 [...]
Today in the afternoon I had the privilege of teaching some of my peers in the Elementary building the wonders of Edublogs. In a 2 hour session we managed to set everyone up with their new blog and post a test entry. Templates were chosen and contact information was entered. Over [...]
Maroon Four
Some of the 5th grade boys started composing! Come and see!
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Twitter
A great site to help you stay connected to others with like interests. Twitter is also a great way to get suggestions or help when you need it once your network is built up.
(tags: twitter web2.0 social)
Welcome to Wikispaces - [...]
Illinois Central Railroad Historical Society
possible place to hide a cache?
(tags: geocaching)
YouTube - Mathmaticious
This mathematicious video took a long time to make. I love it! Math teachers will love this. \n\nThis is something for the horizon project student to review. This is Funny but it is an example of how videos can be made on any topic — a math teacher c
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