Posts Tagged ‘students’
Schools: what should they do, and for whom?
We read today how Panel Urges Schools to Emphasize Core Math Skills (Washington Post). Now, there is a more fundamental question to consider: what should the schools of the XXI century look like and do?. To create a much needed dialogue, I asked one the most thoughtful education bloggers around to share her (I guess it’s “her”)…
Read MoreThe First Step Is Failure
Joanne Jacobs, educator, blogger and author of Our School: The Inspiring Story of Two Teachers, One Big Idea and the Charter School That Beat the Odds, participates today in our Author Speaks Series with an excellent article on how “Schools won’t improve until administrators and teachers can admit the problems, analyze what’s going wrong and…
Read MoreMindfulness and Meditation in Schools: Mindful Kids, Peaceful Schools
Mindfulness and Meditation are good technique for school children to manage anxiety and stress. Read another article from Greater Good Magazine on brain development.
Read MoreCognitive Fitness @ UC-Berkeley Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
Quick post for my UC-Berkeley OLLI students: here are the links I promised. — Collection of 50 Brain Teasers. — Neuroscience Interview Series including in-depth notes of interviews with leading scientists and practitioners. — Build Your Cognitive Reserve-Yaakov Stern: which talks about the Cognitive Reserve and Alzheimer’s symptoms, and includes a great clip on the famous…
Read MoreOn The Brain
Very intense week, and very fun. I will be writing more about this week’s 3 speaking events, but let me say now that our key messages 1) our brains remain flexible during our lifetimes, 2) we can refine our brains with targeted practice, 3) good brain exercise, or “mental cross-training”, requires novelty, variety, and increasing level…
Read More10 Highlights from the 2007 Aspen Health Forum
The Aspen Health Forum gathered an impressive group of around 250 people to discuss the most pressing issues in Health and Medical Science (check out the Program and the Speakers bios), on October 3–6th. It was the first conference, by the way, where I have heard a speaker say: “I resuscitated a woman yesterday”. Key…
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