Comments on: Brains and blogs http://www.daveswhiteboard.com/archives/707 Dave Ferguson's interests, ideas, notions, tangents Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:43:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Dave http://www.daveswhiteboard.com/archives/707/comment-page-1#comment-9885 Dave Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:24:11 +0000 http://www.daveswhiteboard.com/?p=707#comment-9885 Ann, I keep coming back to neuroscience and cognitive psychology to remind myself of the foundation for all the teaching / learning strategies (and fads). We know a lot more than we used to, although one of the things we know is how little we know. Our models are imperfect and lead us in tangential directions. But only by getting lost and figuring out that we're lost do we eventually figure out where "lost" is, and then we're not so lost... Ann, I keep coming back to neuroscience and cognitive psychology to remind myself of the foundation for all the teaching / learning strategies (and fads).

We know a lot more than we used to, although one of the things we know is how little we know. Our models are imperfect and lead us in tangential directions. But only by getting lost and figuring out that we’re lost do we eventually figure out where “lost” is, and then we’re not so lost…

]]> By: Ann Yakimovicz http://www.daveswhiteboard.com/archives/707/comment-page-1#comment-9884 Ann Yakimovicz Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:59:24 +0000 http://www.daveswhiteboard.com/?p=707#comment-9884 Dave... I was just in Dallas and got a tour of the University of Texas at Dallas Center for Brain Health. They are doing some fascinating research on the aging brain, and you can even get a brain scan that shows how your brain is working now, as a baseline for maintaining health as you get older. No, I didn't get one...yet! ...Ann Dave…

I was just in Dallas and got a tour of the University of Texas at Dallas Center for Brain Health. They are doing some fascinating research on the aging brain, and you can even get a brain scan that shows how your brain is working now, as a baseline for maintaining health as you get older. No, I didn’t get one…yet!

…Ann

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