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Helping Students Learn in a LearnerCentered Environment- What Neuroscience
has to Teach Us.
Developed by Professor Terry DoyleFerris State University
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Brain Research
• It is important to realize much of theresearch on the brain as it relates tolearning has been done on animal
models. The research that is done onhumans consist of the study of discrete tasks in isolation.
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This research can however, give usimportant ideas about how to makelearning more effective.
(Dr. Janet Zadina, Neuroscientist and
Educator)
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Slides available fordownload at:
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www.learnercenteredteaching.com
Colby-Sawyer Presentation Helping Students Learn in a Learner
Centered Environment- WhatNeuroscience has to Teach Us.
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Presentation Outcomes
By the end of the presentationparticipants will:
1. Have a better understanding of
how to help students learn in harmonywith their brains
2.Have developed news ideas forintegrating exercise and movement intotheir learning practice.
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Workshop Outcomes
3. Have developed new ways of using information patterns to enhanceyour learning
4. Have developed new ways torecall course content
5. Have developed new ways to usemultisensory approaches to teaching
and learning
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Critical Thinking
• The ability to think critically is greatlyenhanced when people aremaximizing their brains’ learning
abilities.
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Basic Principle of LearnerCentered Instruction
It is the one who
does the work whodoes the learning
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Learning is when NeuronsWire
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• Learning is achange in theneuron-patterns of thebrain.
(Ratey, 2002)
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Definition of Learning
• Learning is abiologicalprocess for
survival• James Zull, 2002
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Teachers’ Definition of Learning?
Learning is the ability to useinformation after significant periods of
disuse and it is the ability to use the information to
solve problems that arise in a context
different (if only slightly) from the contextin which the information was originallytaught.
(Robert Bjork, Memories and Metamemories, 1994)
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Use it or Lose it
• When new materialis not practicedthe new dendrite
tissue isreabsorbed toconserveresources
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Learning Activates the RewardPathway
• Real life,meaningful, andauthentic
learningactivates thereward pathwayin the brain
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• It is this pathwaythat keeps usalive
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Progress is Hugh
• A feeling of makingprogress is whatallows to deal
with tasks,especially taskswe don’tnecessarily like
to do.•
• James Zull, 2002
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