minds

Helping shape the future of lifelong learning via SEK Education Group

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This week, as many stu­dents around the globe final­ly go back to school to meet their peers and teach­ers in per­son for the first time since March, it is an hon­or to announce that our very own Álvaro Fer­nán­dez Ibáñez has joined the Inter­na­tion­al Advi­so­ry Board of SEK Edu­ca­tion Group, which runs 9 bilin­gual IB schools, and a major uni­ver­si­ty, in Spain, France, Ire­land and Qatar.

He (and us) look for­ward to see­ing over 9,000 stu­dents from 70 dif­fer­ent nation­al­i­ties plus their many teach­ers and admin­is­tra­tors, fur­ther devel­op their unique brains and minds in years ahead! [Read more…] about Help­ing shape the future of life­long learn­ing via SEK Edu­ca­tion Group

Three tips for wise minds to calm coronavirus anxiety

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In the ear­ly days of COVID-19, we faced many dif­fi­cult deci­sions in every­day life: try­ing to weigh risk and decide whether to meet up or stay home, send kids to school or vis­it the gym. Now that my home state of Cal­i­for­nia has its “shel­ter in place” order—and many oth­er cities and states are in var­i­ous stages of lockdown—a wait­ing peri­od has tak­en shape.

In some ways, this is a relief—our minds get deci­sion fatigue in the face of so many choic­es. Now we have our instruc­tions, which are restric­tive but use­ful to our brains. But many oth­er types of uncer­tain­ty still remain, about things like our jobs, whether we will get sick even while tak­ing pre­cau­tions, or when we will see our loved ones and return to some nor­mal routines.

[Read more…] about Three tips for wise minds to calm coro­n­avirus anxiety

The Virtual Brain Web Atlas: How the Mind emerges from the Brain

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The Vir­tu­al Brain Web Atlas by the Human Brain Project offers a beau­ti­ful way to explore the anato­my of brain regions and brain functions.

Feel free to enjoy this inter­ac­tive 3D mod­el to learn much about our brains and our minds! [Read more…] about The Vir­tu­al Brain Web Atlas: How the Mind emerges from the Brain

To thrive in tomorrow’s economy, workers need to boost lifelong cognitive abilities

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The Cog­ni­tive Lim­its of Life­long Learn­ing (Project Syndicate):

“As new tech­nolo­gies con­tin­ue to upend indus­tries and take over tasks once per­formed by humans, work­ers world­wide fear for their futures. But what will real­ly pre­vent humans from com­pet­ing effec­tive­ly in the labor mar­ket is not the robots them­selves, but rather our own minds, with all their psy­cho­log­i­cal bias­es and cog­ni­tive lim­i­ta­tions [Read more…] about To thrive in tomorrow’s econ­o­my, work­ers need to boost life­long cog­ni­tive abilities

Join 100+ Innovators, Experts and Practitioners Reinventing Brain Health in the Digital Age

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-- Registrants to the 2016 SharpBrains Virtual Summit, as of November 10th
– Reg­is­trants to the 2016 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit, as of Novem­ber 10th

Dear read­er,

As men­tioned a few days ago via our e‑newsletter, and regard­less of pol­i­tics, sev­en and a half bil­lion peo­ple con­tin­ue to have unique and pre­cious human brains and minds.

Please con­sid­er join­ing the 105 par­tic­i­pants reg­is­tered already for the upcom­ing 2016 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit: Rein­vent­ing Brain Health in the Dig­i­tal Age (Decem­ber 6–8th). We’d love to count on your per­spec­tive, and your orga­ni­za­tion’s. Please come learn and dis­cuss with many experts and inno­va­tors such as [Read more…] about Join 100+ Inno­va­tors, Experts and Prac­ti­tion­ers Rein­vent­ing Brain Health in the Dig­i­tal Age

Resource: Free brain games for children (kid tested, teacher approved)

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exquisiteminds.

Exquis­ite Minds (a web­site for gift­ed and cre­ative chil­dren) has curat­ed a fan­tas­tic list of Free Brain Games, promis­ing that “These free brain games have been kid test­ed and teacher approved.”

We are proud our brain teasers for teens and adults top the list, and agree with their assess­ment that “This site is more intel­lec­tu­al in nature, it’s bet­ter for adult-child dis­cus­sion or for use with old­er kids and adults.”

I hope you (and your kids) enjoy them all!