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www.makemegenius.com – Full of ingredients to make your child a genius. “Don’t make me read, make me understand “. The Brain. Brain. Weighs 1300 - 1400 g Made up of about 100 billion neurons “The most complex living structure on the universe” Makes us who we are. Brain structure.
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www.makemegenius.com– Full of ingredients to make your child a genius. “Don’t make me read, make me understand “
Brain • Weighs 1300 - 1400 g • Made up of about 100 billion neurons • “The most complex living structure on the universe” • Makes us who we are
Brain structure Cerebrum cerebellum hypothalamus Pituitary gland medulla
Motor strip and homunculus Motor strip
Exterior Parts of the Brain • Frontal Lobes – planning & thinking • Temporal Lobe – sound, speech, LTM • Occipital – visual processing • Parietal lobe – orientation, calculations
Interior Parts of the Brain • Limbic System – generation of emotions • Thalamus – processes sensory stimuli – except smell • Hippocampus – checks info in working memory to stored experiences
Cerebral Mode R I G H T M O D E Non V E R B A L L E F T M O D E V E R B A L Logical Analytical Fact Based Qualitative Holistic Intuitive Integrating Synthesizing Interpersonal Emotional Kinesthetic Feeling Based Organized Sequential Planned Detailed Limbic Mode
Brain Transmissions • Neurons transmit impulses along an axon and across the synapse to the dendrites of the neighboring cell
1,000,000,000,000,000 synapses • Learning occurs by changing the synapses so that the influence of one neuron on another also changes. • The more complex the skills demanded in an occupation, the more dendrites were found on the neurons – creates more sites in which to store learnings
How the Brain Learns • Connections the brain finds useful become permanent; those not useful are eliminated as the brain selectively strengthens and prunes connections based on experience. • What are the implications for teaching?
The Brain is a novelty seeker • The brain has a persistent interest in novelty. • An environment that contains mostly predictable stimuli lowers the brain’s interest
Information Processing Model • Learning • Storing • Remembering • Are all dynamic and interactive processes
Information Processing Model • It limits its scope to the major cerebral operations that deal with: • Collecting • Evaluating • Storing • Retrieving information • The parts that are most useful to educators
How the Brain Learns • Colleton County School District • Administrative Meeting – July 28, 2005
Thanks Ishant Sinha Shimla
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www.makemegenius.com– Full of ingredients to make your child a genius. “Don’t make me read, make me understand “