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CHILDHOODBRAINDEVELOPMENT
Nature,Nurture,Technology&Media
EARLYCHILDHOODBRAINDEVELOPMENT:
Nature,Nurture,Technology&Media
PresentedByTimBurns
EDUCARE
SantaFe,NewMexico,USAwww.TimBurnsEducare.com
1. Stimulus of the model.
2. Practice, repetition, variation.
3. Application or generalization.
STRUCTURE of COGNITIVE LEARNING
Burton White Harvard Preschool Project
Raising a Happy, Unspoiled Child, 1995)
BRAINMATURATION
•Bottomtotop
•Insidetooutside
•Sidetoside
•Backtofront
BRAINMATURATIONCerebralCortex
SixCellLayers
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Source:M.Diamond,MagicTreesoftheMind,1998
BRAINMATURATION
Frontal Lobes of the Brain
•Envisionthefuture •Dreambigdreams •Setgoals •Carryoutplans •Detectproblems •Solveproblems •Manageemotions •Controlimpulses •Considerconsequences
McLean, Paul, The Triune Brain in Evolution: Role in Paleocerebral Functions. New York: Plenum Press. 1990.
TRIUNEBRAIN
NURTURE
FEEDBACK
TRIUNEBRAIN
PLAY!
Three Non-Negotiable Requirements
Alerting network Frontal & parietal activity
M. I. Posner and M. K. Rothbart, “Research on Attention Networks as a Model for the Integration of Psychological Science,” Annual Review of Psychology 58 (2007): 1–23
ATTENTIONAL NETWORKS
Orienting network Frontal eye fields Temporietal lobe
Alerting network Frontal & parietal activity
Executive network Pre-frontal cortex Basal ganglia
Gamma-25-100Hz(40hztypical).
Bindsconsciousperception
Beta–13-30Hz.Active,alert,concentration
Alpha–9-13Hz.Relaxedfocus,lighttrance,enhancedserotoninproduction
Theta–4-8Hz.Trance-likestate;enhancedcatecholamineaidsretentionoflearning
Delta–1-3Hz.Dreamlesssleep;humangrowthhormoneproduced
REM–RapidEyeMovement;dreaming
BRAIN-MINDSTATES
• Newsynapticconnections• Newneuralnetworks• Largercellbodies• Greaterdendriticbranching• Enhancedglialproduction• Increasedquantityofsynapses• Multiplecontactareas• Increasedneurogenesisatmultiplebrainsites
Source:M.Diamond,MagicTreesoftheMind,1998
BrainEnrichmentFindings
Movement,Touch,HumanConnection,andNature
“Growingachildislikebuildingahouse:It’sallaboutthefoundation.”
Source:Zone’inPrograms,Inc.,www.Zonein.ca
Source:Zone’inPrograms,Inc.,www.Zonein.ca
Sedentary,Isolated,Over-stimulated,andNeglected
“Thewaysinwhichweareraisingandeducatingourchildrenwithtechnologyarenotsustainable.”