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Shaping Brains Project

Shaping Brains Project. Sheryl Batchelor, Project Manager. Who we are. We are Australia’s first charity We are an independent, non-religious organisation established in 1813 We have been a catalyst for social change for 200 years, tackling some of Australia’s most difficult issues

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Shaping Brains Project

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  1. Shaping Brains Project Sheryl Batchelor, Project Manager

  2. Who we are We are Australia’s first charity We are an independent, non-religious organisation established in 1813 We have been a catalyst for social change for 200 years, tackling some of Australia’s most difficult issues eg. Lobbying to abolish child labour campaigning and for the introduction of the old age pension Through our work we help people to change their lives Through our advocacy work we influence policy to fight for a fairer Australia

  3. Can neuroscience help educators to teach students how to learn?

  4. Bottlenecks to learning Emotional regulation Attention skills Executive functioning skills Visual and auditory processing skills Theory of mind Mindsets Reward systems

  5. Programs we are trialling • Changing Brains Playgroup • Cogmed • MindUP

  6. Changing Brains Playgroup

  7. Changing Brains Playgroup Vision * Hearing * Motor Skills * Attention * Language * Reading * Maths * Music * Emotions and Learning

  8. Cogmed JM & RM

  9. Cogmed JM & RM 86749783

  10. MindUP

  11. Building Blocks of MindUP Social Emotional Learning Positive Psychology Mindful Education Neuroscience

  12. The MindUP Brain Prefrontal Cortex (executive function, planning complex cognitive behavior, personality expression, decision-making and moderating correct social behavior) Hippocampus (compares new learning to past learning and encodes information from working memory to long-term storage) Reticular Activating System (filters ALL sensory input to the brain) Amygdala (encodes emotional messages for long-term storage in the brain)

  13. The RAS Millions of bits of sensory data available every second Reticular Activating System ONLY about 2000 bits get through the RAS each second

  14. Stress in ChildrenBlame the Brain, Not the Child The Amygdala FIGHT Disruptive in class FLIGHT Distracted during class FREEZE Withdrawn from class

  15. The Hippocampus Old information and new information are thought to be stored away in different areas of the cerebral cortex, or the "gray matter” of the brain. The hippocampus is one of the more important parts of the brain that processes memories.

  16. The Prefrontal Cortex The “Thinking Brain” integrates affective and cognitive processes that controls decision-making, moderates cognitive functions, and corrects social behavior.

  17. How’s Your PFC? • 1¢ doubled • every day for one month • OR • $100,000

  18. How’s Your PFC? Day 16: $327.68 Day 17: $655.36 Day 18: $1,310.72 Day 19: $2,621.44 Day 20: $5,242.88 Day 21: $10,485.76 Day 22: $20,971.52 Day 23: $41,943.04 Day 24: $83,386.08 Day 25: $167,772.16 Day 26: $335,544.32 Day 27: $671,088.64 Day 28: $1,342,177.28 Day 29: $2,684,354.56 Day 30: $5,368,709.12 Day 1: $.01 Day 2: $.02 Day 3: $.04 Day 4: $.08 Day 5: $.16 Day 6: $.32 Day 7: $.64 Day 8: $1.28 Day 9: $2.56 Day 10: $5.12 Day 11: $10.24 Day 12: $20.48 Day 13: $40.96 Day 14: $81.92 Day 15: $163.84

  19. Mindful Education Listening Seeing Smelling Tasting Movement

  20. Positive Psychology Choosing Optimism Expressing Gratitude Performing Acts of Kindness

  21. Links to home

  22. Where to from here: Evaluation of the Project Trial new programs as they come on-line Qld Brain Institute

  23. Websites • www.cogmed.com.au • www.junglememory.com • www.changingbrains.org • www.brainrules.net • www.thehawnfoundation.org

  24. Sheryl Batchelor Project Manager Acacia Ridge Early Years Centre 67 Nyngam Street Acacia Ridge QLD 4110 07 3320 8420 0466 737 396 sherylb@bensoc.org.au www.shapingbrains.org.au

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