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Helping Students Learn in a LearnerCentered Environment- What Neuroscience

has to Teach Us.

Developed by Professor Terry DoyleFerris State University

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Brain Research

• It is important to realize much of theresearch on the brain as it relates tolearning has been done on animal

models. The research that is done onhumans consist of the study of discrete tasks in isolation.

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 This research can however, give usimportant ideas about how to makelearning more effective.

(Dr. Janet Zadina, Neuroscientist and

Educator)

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Slides available fordownload at:

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www.learnercenteredteaching.com

Colby-Sawyer Presentation Helping Students Learn in a Learner

Centered Environment- WhatNeuroscience has to Teach Us.

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Presentation Outcomes

By the end of the presentationparticipants will:

  1. Have a better understanding of 

how to help students learn in harmonywith their brains

2.Have developed news ideas forintegrating exercise and movement intotheir learning practice.

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Workshop Outcomes

3. Have developed new ways of using information patterns to enhanceyour learning

4. Have developed new ways torecall course content

5. Have developed new ways to usemultisensory approaches to teaching

and learning

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Critical Thinking

•  The ability to think critically is greatlyenhanced when people aremaximizing their brains’ learning

abilities.

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Basic Principle of LearnerCentered Instruction

It is the one who

does the work whodoes the learning

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Learning is when NeuronsWire

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• Learning is achange in theneuron-patterns of thebrain.

(Ratey, 2002)

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Definition of Learning

• Learning is abiologicalprocess for

survival•  James Zull, 2002

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 Teachers’ Definition of Learning?

Learning is the ability to useinformation after significant periods of 

disuse and it is the ability to use the information to

solve problems that arise in a context

different (if only slightly) from the contextin which the information was originallytaught.

  (Robert Bjork, Memories and Metamemories, 1994)

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Use it or Lose it

• When new materialis not practicedthe new dendrite

tissue isreabsorbed toconserveresources

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Learning Activates the RewardPathway

• Real life,meaningful, andauthentic

learningactivates thereward pathwayin the brain

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• It is this pathwaythat keeps usalive

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Progress is Hugh

• A feeling of makingprogress is whatallows to deal

with tasks,especially taskswe don’tnecessarily like

to do.•

•  James Zull, 2002