Alyssa
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“It’s nearly impossible for the brain to remember something we can’t connect with. If we can’t apply and use what we learn, the brain will instinctively delete it as a survival mechanism. So, Tell Them what they are learning, and Why.”
― Engaging the Student Brain: 7 Hard-to-Ignore Teaching Techniques That Make Things Stick
― Engaging the Student Brain: 7 Hard-to-Ignore Teaching Techniques That Make Things Stick
“There is no learning without remembering.” —Socrates”
― Engaging the Student Brain: 7 Hard-to-Ignore Teaching Techniques That Make Things Stick
― Engaging the Student Brain: 7 Hard-to-Ignore Teaching Techniques That Make Things Stick
“Intuitions are not to be ignored, Watson. They represent data processed too fast for the conscious mind to comprehend.” —Sherlock Holmes (Wink)”
― Engaging the Student Brain: 7 Hard-to-Ignore Teaching Techniques That Make Things Stick
― Engaging the Student Brain: 7 Hard-to-Ignore Teaching Techniques That Make Things Stick
“Great teachers everywhere do that very thing, each and every day. We use chunking every day to break our content into small, easy-to-understand pieces. Until we are rushed and short on time. Which is . . . almost always. Then sometimes we slip into the dreaded Data Dumping.”
― Engaging the Student Brain: 7 Hard-to-Ignore Teaching Techniques That Make Things Stick
― Engaging the Student Brain: 7 Hard-to-Ignore Teaching Techniques That Make Things Stick
“According to Harvard scientist Gerald Zaltman (and many others), decisions are generated in the brain’s emotional center. He has shown that patients with damage to their emotional centers become unable to make decisions. So, while people may claim that they decide things with logic and reasoning, emotion actually drives most of our decision-making. Not logic.”
― Engaging the Student Brain: 7 Hard-to-Ignore Teaching Techniques That Make Things Stick
― Engaging the Student Brain: 7 Hard-to-Ignore Teaching Techniques That Make Things Stick
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