Teaching with brain in mind

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  Igor Riznar

  

  5 days ago

  Learning styles don’t exist

  Aeon Magazine - by Carl Hendrick

  A teaching approach that is based on students’ preferences sounds laudable. But this misunderstands how learning happens Picture two English …

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  Igor Riznar

  

  4 days ago

  Daydreaming is not slacking off. It’s key to creativity and innovation

  Fast Company - By Gabriella Rosen Kellerman and Martin E. P. Seligman

  The brain doesn’t just ‘power down’. One of the most important neuroscientific discoveries of our lifetime was that of the default mode network (DMN), a set of brain regions involved in our mental downtime. Like many of the most significant scientific discoveries, it was made by accident. Functional …

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  Igor Riznar

  

  6 days ago

  Here are 21 of the most common thinking errors (video)

  boingboing.net - David Pescovitz

  Logical fallacies, cognitive biases, and mind traps are essentially bugs in our brains that interfere with reasoning and rational thought. The first …

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  Igor Riznar

  

  Neurons are not the only brain cells that think

  The Economist

  Most people, if they think about the matter at all, probably think of thinking as something done by the huge network of specialised, electrically …

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  Igor Riznar

  

  Retirement May Be Bad for Your Brain. Is Working Longer the Solution?

  Barron's - By Jessica Hall, MarketWatch

  When we retire from our jobs we may be giving up more than staff meetings, desk lunches and a paycheck. The social interaction and mental challenges …

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  Igor Riznar

  

  Op-Ed: Don’t ban chatbots in classrooms — use them to change how we teach

  Los Angeles Times - Angela Duckworth and Lyle Ungar

  Will chatbots that can generate sophisticated prose destroy education as we know it? We hope so. New York City’s Department of Education recently banned the use of ChatGPT, a bot created by OpenAI with a technology called the Generative Pretrained Transformer. “While the tool may be able to provide …