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Design Vs. Dyslexia: Innovation Promises New Hope for Children With Dyslexia

Peter Skillen says:

I would love to hear some opinions on this methodology from anyone who has used it or thinks about these issues.

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Design Vs. Dyslexia: Innovation Promises New Hope for Children With Dyslexia

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ScienceDaily (Jan. 27, 2010) — Reading and retaining information. That’s the challenge faced by the one in five children who have some form of dyslexia.

Overcoming that challenge could soon become easier for educators and children thanks to pioneering design research from the University of Cincinnati’s internationally ranked College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning (DAAP).

How ‘Reading by Design’ Works

“In my work,” said Seward, “I want to deemphasize the 26 letters of the alphabet and emphasize the 44 common sounds of the English language. I do so by helping educators employ children’s senses, from the visual to the kinesthetic.”

The key, she added, is knowing that dyslexia is not rooted in problems with visual perception. It’s rooted in memory. Read more at www.sciencedaily.com
 
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Posted by Peter Skillen  6 days ago

“The Internet hasn’t changed the way we think,”-neuroscientist Joshua Greene-Harvard.

Peter Skillen says:

This is an interesting conflict with the common rush of enthusiasm, rewriters and popularists of what I believe are profiteers in education industry.

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The impact of the Internet on cognition: Experts speak out

NEWSWEEK reports:

The ways the Internet supposedly affects thought are as apocalyptic as they are speculative, since all the above are supported by anecdote, not empirical data. So it is refreshing to hear how 109 philosophers, neurobiologists, and other scholars answered, “How is the Internet changing the way you think?” That is the “annual question” at the online salon edge.org, where every year science impresario, author, and literary agent John Brockman poses a puzzler for his flock of scientists and other thinkers…

“The Internet hasn’t changed the way we think,” argues neuroscientist Joshua Greene of Harvard. It “has provided us with unprecedented access to information, but it hasn’t changed what [our brains] do with it.” Read more at cogsciblog.wordpress.com
 
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Posted by Peter Skillen  14 days ago

Science Daily - “Facebook or MySpace, Youths’ Use Reflect Face-to-Face Interactions”

Peter Skillen says:

Does this article reflect what you are seeing in the youth with whom you deal?

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Facebook or MySpace, Youths’ Use Reflect Face-to-Face Interactions

ScienceDaily (Jan. 26, 2010) — Though parents often have concerns about letting their teens use social media Web sites like Facebook and MySpace, a new study by University of Virginia psychologists suggests that well-adapted youth with positive friendships will use these sites to further enhance the positive relationships they already have.

However, they warn, teens who have behavioral problems and difficulty making friends, or who are depressed, may be more inclined to use social media in negative and sometimes aggressive ways, or not to use such sites at all.

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Posted by Peter Skillen  14 days ago

APsaA: Are Physicians Too Quick to Medicate ADHD? How are teachers implicated? #adhd #education

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Well, this certainly supports my often criticized view of our dependence and embrace of the 'western medical model' when it comes to adhd (and learning disabilities). Esther Fine suggests that we are all too quick to determine a neurological cause that can be medicated, rather than looking at other causes for the issues. Teachers are implicated as part of the p... read more

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APsaA: Are Physicians Too Quick to Medicate ADHD?

By Kristina Fiore, Staff Writer, MedPage Today
Published: January 16, 2010

NEW YORK — Physicians may be too quick to medicate children suspected of having attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), researchers said here.


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The etiology of the disease is not well understood, and while some cases may have neurological causes, children may respond to psychotherapy instead, Esther Fine, PhD, a psychoanalyst in private practice in Los Angeles, told attendees at the American Psychoanalytic Association meeting.

One reason is that teachers may be diagnosing children as having ADHD. Concerned parents then request medications from pediatricians, Fine said, and pediatricians may be too quick to comply.

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Posted by Peter Skillen  24 days ago

Dan Vergano “Trying to learn how learning works” #education #brain #neuroscience

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I love that brain research is affirming a progressive socio-constructivist approach. But the findings extend this line of thinking and are critical of some potential myths regarding the permanence of particular LDs.

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Trying to learn how learning works

“New insights from many different fields are converging to create a new science of learning that may transform educational practices,” begins a report led by Andrew Meltzoff of the University of Washington in Seattle. The review in the current Science magazine makes the case for psychologists, neuroscientists, roboticists and teachers combining to quietly create a new field that combines everything from how brains grow to how classrooms work into a new kind of learning research.

A baby wearing an ERP (event-related potential) cap. The cap has sensors that measure changes in the children's brain as they process stimuli.

So, how could that work? Three principles, “across a range of areas and ages” come across in the new learning research:

•Learning is computational.
Learning is social.
•Learning is brain-circuitry driven.Read more at www.usatoday.com
 
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Posted by Peter Skillen  25 days ago

Sapolsky on “The Uniqueness of Humans” #education #Neuroscience #brain

Peter Skillen says:

An interesting take on the human ability for accepting 'delayed gratification'. However, I am very much questioning how our current social media explosion and 'immediateness' is going to impact this from an evolutionary perspective.

See "HARMFUL ONE-LINERS, AN OCEAN OF FACTS AND REWIRED MINDS" by HAIM HARARI, Physicist, former President, Weizmann Institute ... read more

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Robert Sapolsky: The Uniqueness of Humans

Robert Sapolsky, world-renowned lecturer and professor of neurological and biological sciences, gave this talk to a packed audience of students and faculty of all disciplines at Stanford in 2009.

A densely-packed and characteristically lively lecture, consider it a “state of evolutionary anthropology” delivered within a mere 20 minutes.

When it comes to that delayed reward system, Sapolsky says the uniqueness of humans comes down our capacity to “hold on”. Of all animals, we can carry out chains of actions that take weeks, years, decades, entire lifetimes — all on the premise of the probability of reward.

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Posted by Peter Skillen  26 days ago

M.I.N.D. Institute finds Disconnect between Brain Regions in ADHD

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I find this particular research interesting because ADHD is so often diagnosed solely on behavioural patterns and observation. This is the first evidence from brain electrical patterns. In addition, it is notable that the children perform well when cued but they don’t allocate resources as efficiently when not given the cues.

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Disconnect Between Brain Regions in ADHD

ScienceDaily (Jan. 12, 2010) — Two brain areas fail to connect when children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder attempt a task that measures attention, according to researchers at the UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain and M.I.N.D. Institute.

“This is the first time that we have direct evidence that this connectivity is missing in ADHD,” said Ali Mazaheri, postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Mind and Brain. Mazaheri and his colleagues made the discovery by analyzing the brain activity in children with ADHD. The paper appears in the current online issue of the journal Biological Psychiatry.

This is the first evidence from brain electrical patterns for a functional disconnection in cortical attention systems in ADHD, he said. Current definitions of ADHD are based only on behavior.

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Posted by Peter Skillen  27 days ago

One-liners may agitate but it’s not conversation. #education #constructivism

Peter Skillen says:

Lately, I, too, have been extremely frustrated with the one-liners that people post on Twitter as if it were the truth from God. It becomes a battle of the one-liners and people hesitate to engage in further discussions on one’s blog or in another venue where a reasoned conversation is necessary in order to create new understandings. “Dismissiveness” is not “discussion”.

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HAIM HARARI
Physicist, former President, Weizmann Institute of Science; Author, A View from the Eye of the Storm

HARMFUL ONE-LINERS, AN OCEAN OF FACTS AND REWIRED MINDS

It is entirely possible that the Internet is changing our way of thinking in more ways than I am willing to admit, but there are three clear changes that are palpable:

The first is the increasing brevity of messages.

Between Twittering, chatting and sending abbreviated Blackberry e-mails, the “old” sixty-second sound byte of TV newscasts is now converted into one-liners, attempting to describe ideas, principles, events, complex situations and moral positions.

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Posted by Peter Skillen  29 days ago

Graham Attwell-”Framing curricula for Open Education” - Social #constructivism - #TUpbl

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This is a brilliant, theoretically-based analysis of knowledge-building communities and their creation and operation within the context of new technologies and ‘open education’ models. Some of my favourite theorists - Lave & Wenger, Lev Vygotsky, Ivan Illich, George Siemens.

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Framing curricula for Open Education

We are being forced to re-examine what constitutes knowledge and are moving from expert developed and sanctioned knowledge to collaborative forms of knowledge construction. Social learning practices are leading to new forms of knowledge discovery. Cormier sees a movement from expert defined curricula to community based curricula but does not elaborate on how this process might happen.

Richard Hill goes on to look at “how to frame a curriculum that enables individuals-in-communities to learn and adapt, to mitigate risks, to prepare for solutions to problems, to respond to risks that are realised, and to recover from dislocations. This demands curricula that may be:

  • authentic and meaningful, framed by decision-making and agency;
  • enquiry-based, in which skills, approaches, decisions and actions are developed and tested in real-world situations that demonstrate complexity and context;
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    Posted by Peter Skillen  1 month ago

    by @DavidDiSalvo “Are Social Networks Messing with Your Head?” Scientific American Mind- #brain

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    A thoughtful and provocative examination of various psychological and social implications of social networking.

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    From the January 2010 Scientific American Mind | 1 comments

    Are Social Networks Messing with Your Head?

    Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and their cousins have evolved from college fad to global ubiquity in seven short years. Whether they are good for our mental health is another matter

    By David DiSalvo   

    Key Concepts

  • As social networks proliferate, they are changing the way people think about the Internet, from a tool used in solitary anonymity to a medium that touches on questions about human nature and identity.
  • If Facebook were a country, it would be the fourth most populous in the world, just behind the U.S. Almost half of its users visit every day.
  • Nielsen Online reports that social networking (and associated blogging) is now the fourth most popular online activity. Time spent on social-networking sites is growing at three times the rate of overall Internet usage, accounting for almost 10 percent of total time spent online.
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