Natural learning for a connected world : education, technology, and the human brain
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Natural learning for a connected world : education, technology, and the human brain
Teachers College, c2011
- : pbk
- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- Who and what are educating our children?
- How is technology impacting the world of traditional education?
- What are the powerful beliefs about learning and teaching that keep education frozen in place?
- What do students need in order to successfully prepare for the future?
- The perception/action dynamic: the foundation for learning from life
- The science behind the perception/action cycle
- Perception/action learning
- Goals and outcomes: building rich neural networks requires real world knowledge
- Side by side: traditional and perception/action learning, a model
- Motivation, the engine that drives perception/action learning
- The optimal state of mind for learning
- How the "system" engages the low road
- Working with biological predispositions
- How a village, school, and society teach
- Implementing the guided experience approach: the three critical elements
- Relaxed alertness
- Orchestrated immersion
- Active processing
- Window into tomorrow
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Description
Why do video games fascinate kids so much that they will spend hours pursuing a difficult skill? Why don’t they apply this kind of intensity to their schoolwork? These questions are answered by the authors who pioneered brain/mind learning with the publication of Making Connections: Teaching and the Human Brain. In their new book, Natural Learning for a Connected World, Caine and Caine build a bridge to the future of education with a dynamic model of teaching that works for all grade levels and all cultural and ethnic groups. The authors’ education model, the Guided Experience Approach, is based on the scientific foundation of learning as a totally natural, continuous interaction between perception and action. This important book provides a practical, step-by-step description and successful examples from practice so that we can finally provide the learning environments essential for our children to thrive in the knowledge age.
Book Features:
Describes an approach for integrating technology into teaching that will help all students learn with greater depth and ease.
Synthesizes research from neuroscience, cognitive psychology, biology, and education.
Contrasts the ways in which video games are designed with the way students are taught in school, demonstrating traditional education’s inconsistencies with how the brain learns best.
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