A Good Day of Learning

I learned a lot about blogging this week; I learned that I wasted a day pulling my hair out on the wrong blog page.  I found out from my good, best, best friend who I will call “D”, who in two minutes told me that somehow, I had created two different blog accounts (with the same information) and the page that I was trying to work from wasn’t the correct one.  With my new knowledge I had to fix some things but had a little time to have some fun with my page; some of you will probably notice a new look; I found out how to add a splash of color to jazz it up a little (let me know what you all think). 

My special thanks, “D” for being home and seriously saving me and share your blogging knowledge with me.  Thanks

Working on this week’s assignment I found two articles as reviewed below, here what I found:

1.  Article “Understanding a Brain-Based Approach to Learning and Teaching”, (http://www.coe.iup.edu/grbieger/classes/curr910/Readings/Brainbasedlearning.pdf) that I found very interesting, each passage the article provides a brief summary of the principle theory and then related the principal to how it applies to learning.  Food for thought for me was “Principle Two:  Learning Engages the Entire Physiology”, (which I already knew) with statement “learning is as natural as breathing” and continues on but what made me stop a second was his comment about stress management how it effects the brain and interferers with learning (which I also knew).  What I didn’t consider is that I should consider incorporating stress management ideas into the learning process.  Food for thought as to how I would accomplish in my process.

2.  Building a Circuit-Diagram for the Brain – You Tube (Jennifer Raymond, Stanford University), http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kRrarRR2kk. 

A worthy viewing, this 12 1/2 min. clip, gave a great overview of Dr. Raymond’s ongoing research of the different parts of the brain and how learning is conducted in these areas.  Her team is currently focused on the Cerebellum region of the brain and its effects on cognitive learning ability on humans.  Her presentation contain just the right amount of humor and was refreshing; informative as she explains how the brain process the information that the eye sends to area of the brain as input and how the circuits process this information creating an output of learning.