{"id":5456,"date":"2020-02-18T08:00:08","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T13:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/blog\/?p=5456"},"modified":"2020-02-18T10:17:30","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T15:17:30","slug":"sharing-the-learning-and-the-brain-experience-with-colleagues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/sharing-the-learning-and-the-brain-experience-with-colleagues\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharing the Learning and the Brain Experience with Colleagues"},"content":{"rendered":"

You\u2019ve just gotten back from a Learning and the Brain conference, and \u2013 frankly \u2013 you\u2019re revved up!<\/p>\n

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You\u2019ve learned so much new information and gained so many new perspectives, you just want to share it all with your colleagues right away.<\/p>\n

Of course, it can be challenging to synthesize and organize all that information. Where do you begin? How do you fit all the pieces together? What was the name of that researcher again?<\/p>\n

Happily, lots of people have done this synthesis work for you.<\/p>\n

In the past, for instance, I\u2019ve recommended this document<\/a> by Deans for Impact. In a few brisk pages, it summarizes 6 key findings from the world of cognitive science.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s News<\/h2>\n

I recently stumbled across another synthesis: this one with a twist. It doesn\u2019t just boil lots of information down to easy-to-understand pages. (Although it certainly does do that.) This synthesis provides questions, examples, and activities to help you share the information with other teachers<\/em>.<\/p>\n

For instance: like many other writers<\/a> (me included), this one focuses on the science of attention<\/strong>. Simply put, students don\u2019t learn about information they\u2019re not attending to.<\/p>\n

This Learning Curriculum (2.0)<\/em><\/a> reinforces<\/strong> that crucial point with a video you might show your colleagues.<\/p>\n

It describes<\/strong> teaching strategies that \u2013 once we understand the importance of attention \u2013 will clearly be more and less effective.<\/p>\n

It offers<\/strong> specific classroom suggestions and a warning or two. (Videos get students\u2019 attention. But, alas, students might attend to surface features and miss the core concept we want them to understand.)<\/p>\n

It also provokes<\/strong> deeper thought with questions you might put to fellow teachers.<\/p>\n

Beyond Attention<\/h2>\n

Of course, this Learning Curriculum goes beyond attention. It considers working memory<\/em> (my obsession), and prior misconceptions<\/em>, and retrieval practice<\/em>, and a host of other important topics.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t agree with everything written here. (Heck, I don\u2019t agree with everything written anywhere.) But, I think this curriculum…<\/p>\n

synthesizes and organizes lots of essential information,<\/p>\n

offers specific examples with getting bogged down in details, and<\/p>\n

creates something usefully new: a strategy for sharing this information with other teachers. (I particularly like the \u201chinge questions” designed to be sure teachers understand the principles in application.)<\/p>\n

For those reasons, I encourage you to check it out. I hope you’ll let me know your thoughts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A handy new document helps teachers understand and apply cognitive science in the classroom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":5464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lb-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5456"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5467,"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5456\/revisions\/5467"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}