Learning & the Brain: Resources for Educators

By Laurie Bartels | July 20, 2008 |

As promised in my pre­vi­ous post (10 Brain Train­ing Tips To Teach and Learn), here are some of the resources that inform my under­stand­ing of the brain: books, con­fer­ences, and web­sites. BOOKS There are a mul­ti­tude of books about the brain. For edu­ca­tors, the best of these are books that demys­ti­fy the lan­guage of neuroscience…

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Resource for Brain Fitness Centers

By Alvaro Fernandez | June 1, 2008

Our Mar­ket Report has received some recent addi­tion­al acco­lades: “In a wide­ly scat­tered and unreg­u­lat­ed field, this clear, cred­i­ble doc­u­ment is a first-class, pio­neer­ing com­pendi­um that’s like­ly to become indus­try-stan­­dard for all of us in this field. Well done!” — Eric Jensen, Founder of Jensen Learn­ing Cor­po­ra­tion. “This is the first clear, con­cise and com­pre­hen­sive overview…

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Brain Research Interview Series

By Alvaro Fernandez | April 23, 2008 |

We are work­ing on improv­ing sev­er­al sec­tions of our web­site, espe­cial­ly our Resources sec­tion. It will look much bet­ter in a few days. Our first step has been to re-orga­nize our Neu­ro­science Inter­view Series, and below you have how it looks today. Dur­ing the last 18 months I have had the for­tune to inter­view over 15…

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Brain Books: Your Suggestions?

By Alvaro Fernandez | April 11, 2008 |

Last Decem­ber we launched  our stim­u­lat­ing Author Speaks Series to pro­vide a plat­form for lead­ing sci­en­tists and experts writ­ing high-qual­i­­ty brain-relat­ed books to share their insights with Sharp­Brains read­ers. Par­tic­i­pants so far include (in order of appearance):

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Brain Fitness Newletter: Mid-March edition

By Alvaro Fernandez | March 16, 2008

Here you are have the bi-mon­th­­ly Digest of our 10 most Pop­u­lar blog posts. (Also, remem­ber that you can sub­scribe to receive our blog RSS feed, or to our newslet­ter at the top of this page if you want to receive this digest by email). We hope you had a great Brain Aware­ness Week. After many months…

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Brain Connection: Eric Jensen on Learning and the Brain

By Alvaro Fernandez | March 12, 2008 |

Eric Jensen is a for­mer mid­dle school teacher and for­mer adjunct pro­fes­sor for sev­er­al uni­ver­si­ties includ­ing the Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­for­nia, San Diego. He co-found­ed the Learn­ing Brain Expo, a con­fer­ence for edu­ca­tors, and has writ­ten 21 books on the brain and learn­ing. Jensen is cur­rent­ly com­plet­ing his PhD course­work. His most recent book, Enrich­ing the…

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