Archive for September, 2011
Learning and the Brain
12Sep11
What is “best practice” in teaching these days? Is it something that one can pinpoint or is it a moving target–something educators (or doctors, or psychologists) are always having to chase? When I ask my colleagues: “What is best practice?” I never receive the same answer. Is understanding the brain and its biology part of […]
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Tags: brain
Recently, I read and interesting quote from the National Council of Teachers of English, (NCTE 2008): As society and technology change, so does literacy. Because technology* has increased the intensity and complexity of literate environments, the twenty-first century demands that a literate person possess a wide range of abilities and competencies, many literacies. These literacies–from […]
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Tags: information literacy, pictures and comprehension
Susi loves traveling, fishing, baseball, neuroscience and lip gloss. Currently she is living and working in Indonesia.
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