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Workshop
|  | A Biological Brain In a Cultural Classroom |
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Primary Affiliate
| | SDA |
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Default Contact
|  | Lisa Smith |
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Default Location
| | ESU 10 |
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Description
| | Dr. Robert Sylwester, Emeritus Professor of Education at the University of Oregon who focuses on the educational implications of new developments in science and technology is the facilitator for this training and has identified some key components for the day:
Dramatic developments in the cognitive neurosciences are providing us
with an unprecedented understanding of the modular organization and
extended development of our social brain. This non-technical
interactive workshop will describe these new perspectives, and
discuss their curricular, instructional, classroom management, and
staff development implications.
Three major educationally significant questions dominate: (1) Why do
animals have a brain when plants do well without one? (2) How is our
brain organized to efficiently carry out its functions?, and (3) Why
does it take the human brain 20 years to mature, and why do we have
such a longer adolescence than primates who live almost as long as we
do? |
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Section(s)
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Prerequisites
| | None |
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Audience
| | All |
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Materials Required
| | N/A |