Mirror Neurons

Check out my Family Ministry blog for a quick post on Mirror Neurons.

Counting to Five

How hard can it be to count to five? Here is one among a very large list of brain games available online to 'exercise' your brain. It is the 60 second brain game. An interesting exercise in the brain dealing with conflicting information/input.

Active Attention

This teacher gets it. Things stick better (at all?) when the student is actively engaged and focused. He knows from his work as a neuroscientist about how the brain works and he puts it to good use in the classroom.

Here is the critical sentence in the article: “The brain rewires itself in response to every meaningful experience. Like students, neurons simply ignore passive stimulation. I am willing to use every tool at my disposal to motivate my students, because nothing I say will stick without their active attention."

Teachers have lots of competition, to be sure, but I think its our job to engage them with everything we've got in our arsenal to help them focus and learn.