Brain+research

http://academic.wsc.edu/redl/classes/tami/braintechwsc.html ** DUE DATES ** **[|XX]** || ** What is the difference between the "Industrial Age" and the "Information Age"?[|XX] ** || ** What are some other learning web resources? ** **[|XX]** ||  Home Tami J. Little thebarn@netins.net Box 44 Climbing Hill, IA 51015 712-876-2255 NOT between 11 and 1 daily 712-876-2195
 * Technology and the Brain-compatible Classroom **
 * Making the Connection **
 * **[|Instructor Information] ** || ** Course Requirements Grading Scale **
 * ** What is "Brain-compatible" learning? [|XX] ** || **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;"> Where are GENERAL resources for learning, MI, Brain-compatible, and Technology integration? [|XX]  ** || **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;"> What is a differentiated classroom? XX  ** || **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;"> How can computers and technology support meaningful learning? [|XX]  ** ||
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;"> What are some strategies that will help teachers use technology effectively? [|XX] ** || **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;"> What is the Theory of Multiple Intelligences? [|XX]  ** || **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;"> What are Learning Styles? [|XX]  ** || **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;"> What are some "important" educational philosophies that I should remember from Education 101? [|XX]  ** ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">How can technology help to enhance the students' Multiple Intelligences? [|XX] || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">Who are some "important people" in Brain Compatible Learning? || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;"> || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;"> ||

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">Course Requirements: Grading is on a 10 point scale. Your grade is determined by points as listed in the chart below. Please don't hesitate to call or e-mail if you have questions. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">Assignment: Write in list, paragraph, or graphic organizer a response to each of the questions listed below. You receive 5 points for each question answered. Please include the question number and the question on the page as well as your name and e-mail address. **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;"> 1. What is "Brain-compatible" learning? ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">Mind/Brain Learning Principles by Caine and Caine [] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">Learning How to Use the Brain [] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">Nice chart comparing strategies/theories[] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">In Search of Brain Based Education [] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">Is the Fuss About Brain Research Justified? [] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">Brain Connection.com [] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">Brain based Learning [] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">Susan Kovalik's Web Site [] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">Brain Research Links [] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">Web Wonders: How the Brain Learns [] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">Research on the Brain and Music [] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">Science Friday Kid's Edition [] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;"> **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;"> 2. What is the Theory of Multiple Intelligences? ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">The Gardner School, Vancouver, WA [|http://www.gardnerschool.org]. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">Harvard Project Zero. [|http://www.pz.harvard.edu]. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">New Dimensions of Learning (David Lazear) [|http://www.multi-intell.com] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">Midas (Multiple Intelligences Diagnostic Assessment), []. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">New City School. [|http://www.newcityschool.org]. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">New Horizons for Learning. [|http://www.newhorizons.org]. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">The Saltonstall School, Salem, Massachusetts. []. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">San Jose Elementary School, Jacksonville, FL []. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">Thornburg Center for Professional Development. [|http://www.tcpd.org]. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">The Brain and Music [] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">Intelligence Considered [] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;"> **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;"> 3. What are some strategies that will help teachers use technology effectively? ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">Electronic Technology in Education [] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">WebQuests in the Classroom [] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">Technology Butterflies Creating Engaged Learning Environments [] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">Technology Management and Leadership [] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">Using Technology in the Early Childhood Classroom: [] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">Curriculum Connections: LEAD [] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;"> **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;"> 4. What is the definition of the "Industrial Age" and the "Information Age"? Why do I need to know this? ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">New Learning Strategies for Generation X [] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">Mind Candy Kafe [] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">Information Age Learning--The World is at your Fingertips [] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">Constructing Knowledge and Shaping Brains [] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;"> **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;"> 5. What are Learning Styles? ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">Links to Learning Styles Links [] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">Learning, the critical Technology [] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;"> **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;"> 6. How can computers and technology support meaningful learning? ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">ALIVE Advancing Learning In Virtual Environments [] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">Teaching and Learning With Technology Links [] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;"> **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;"> 7. What are some GENERAL resources for learning, MI, Brain-compatible, and Technology integration? ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">Learning and the Human Brain by Robert Valiant Ed.D [] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">Articles from Early Childhood.com [] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">[|Dear Parents] from Edmark providing sound advice on learning and technology [] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">U.S. News: Inside the Teen Brain [] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">Educational Leadership. Vol. 56 No. 3 Nov.98 How the Brain Learns [] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">Can Brain Research Inform Education? [] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">Brain Based Learning Resource [] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">HISTORY of the computer...the machine that changed the world [] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;"> **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;"> 8. What are some "important" educational philosophies that I should remember from Education 101? ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">Bloom's Taxonomy [] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">Teaching Resources [] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">**Learning to Learn** [] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">Cone of Learning (Level of Involvement) [] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">[]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">[|Time Log] || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">5 points ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">[|E-mail or phone the instructor once during the course] || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">5 points ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">Choose 5 questions to "answer". Provide in list, paragraph, or graphic organizer a response to each of the questions you choose. You should have 1 page "answers" to the[|questions] you choose. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">50 points ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">Final Project of choice using one of the questions as a base || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">30 points ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">Self Addressed Stamped Envelope and __COPIES__ of all assignments || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">5 points ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">[|Evaluation of course] || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">5 points ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;"> 9. How can technology be used to enhance students' Multiple Intelligences? **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">[] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">[] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">[] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">[] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">[] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">[] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">[] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">[] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">10. Who are some "important people" in Brain Compatible Learning? Locate a website or article about/by each person below. You can use information from the above links to help you! <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">Pat Wolfe <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">Robert Sylwester Renate Nummela Caine and Geoffrey Caine <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">Eric Jensen <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">Susan Kovalik <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">Leslie Hart <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">Jane Healy <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">11. What is a differentiated classroom? How do you plan a lesson for the differentiated classroom? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">[] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">Principles of a differentiated classroom <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">[] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">Resources for a differentiated classroom <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">[] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">Teaching in the differentiated classroom <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">[] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">Book online! <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">Final Project <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">The final project is an opportunity for you to use any new knowledge that you gain from answering the questions to create a lesson, activity, or project that you can use with students. It might be a lesson plan, a booklet, a parent letter, something that extends your learning and is useful to you. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;"> **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">RESOURCES and Other Learning Sites ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators [] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">Barbara Coloroso, Kids Are Worth It! [|http://www.kidsareworthit.com]. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">The Brain Store (Eric Jensen). [|http://www.thebrainstore.com]. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">Growing without Schooling (homeschooling options). [|http://www.holtgws.com]. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">Education World [] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">The Gateway [] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">The National Parenting Center. [|http://www.tnpc.com] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">[] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">Family Education Station [] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">SPECIAL EDUCATION RESOURCES: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">http://www.rit.edu/~easi/ak12/k12.html <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">[] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">TALENTED AND GIFTED RESOURCES: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">http://users.erols.com/reking/tagfam.html <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">http://www.hoagiesgifted.org/ <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">[] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">FOREIGN LANGUAGE RESOURCES: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">El Libro del Animales por el Abuelo (with sound!) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">[] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">ERIC Clearing House on Languages and Linguistics [] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">