brain based learning

It seems that Infographics are sprouting like proverbial fungi around the Internet lately. COMMENTS PLEASE: How have you used, or could you see using, infographics in the classroom? The godfather […]

Summer Reading on the Human Mind

The New England Faculty Development Consortium Exchange, Spring 2010, includes a great list of readings about the Human Mind, put together by G. Christian Jernstedt: humanmind

More on the brain, multitasking, and dopamine. Your Brain on Computers – Attached to Technology and Paying a Price – NYTimes.com.

Behold the Twinkie!

BCC Nursing Instructor Mary A. has challenged her Nutrition students to make a prediction: what will an unwrapped, unrefrigerated twinkie look like at the end of the semester? What’s YOUR […]

Evaluation of the 2010 Summer Institute

Thank you, everyone who attended “Igniting Learning: Brain-Based Strategies for Student Success” last week. The evaluation summary is below, with your comments: SI2010eval

Jonah Lehrer’s blog on emerging cognitive research is just amazing. So much of this has to do with learning, our students, ourselves, and human behavior: http://scienceblogs.com/cortex/