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Top Resources for Educators on Learning and the Brain

November 9, 2017 by Laurie Bartels

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In my pre­vi­ous post 10 Brain Train­ing Tips To Teach and Learn I promised to share some of the resources–books, con­fer­ences, and web­sites– that inform my under­stand­ing of teach­ing, learn­ing and the brain. Here’s an updat­ed list: [Read more…] about Top Resources for Edu­ca­tors on Learn­ing and the Brain

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Filed Under: Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: Books, brain, educators, exercise, Learning, movement, Nutrition, resources, sleep

25 Key Resources to Improve Brain Health and Mental Health

May 1, 2017 by Alvaro Fernandez

Dear Sharp­Brains reader,

We have com­piled 25 impor­tant resources dis­cussed dur­ing the 2015 and 2016 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mits–where hun­dreds of pro­fes­sion­als from 15+ coun­tries met (vir­tu­al­ly) to rein­vent brain health in the dig­i­tal age.

We hope these resources prove to be valu­able to every­one work­ing on ways to improve brain health and men­tal health. Please enjoy these 25 Key Resources to Improve Brain Health and Men­tal Health.

Kind regards,

Alvaro Fer­nan­dez & The Sharp­Brains Team

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Brain-health, improve mental health, improve-brain-health, Mental-Health, resources

Resources for Brain Health Across the Lifespan

August 26, 2008 by Laurie Bartels

As promised in my pre­vi­ous post on Neu­ro­ge­n­e­sis and Brain Plas­tic­i­ty in Adult Brains, I will now list some inter­views, video, arti­cles, and books that go hand-in-hand with these brain booksfas­ci­nat­ing top­ics we are dis­cussing. Please com­ment below if you have favorite addi­tion­al resources!

NEUROGENESIS

MIT news – Picow­er researcher finds neu­ron growth in adult brain

Soci­ety for Neu­ro­science brain brief – Adult Neu­ro­ge­n­e­sis

BRAIN PLASTICITY

Neu­ro­science for Kids – Brain Plas­tic­i­ty: What Is It?

Soci­ety for Neu­ro­science brain brief – Brain Plas­tic­i­ty, Lan­guage Pro­cess­ing and Reading

Brain Sci­ence Pod­cast – Gin­ger Camp­bell inter­view with Nor­man Doidge, MD, [Read more…] about Resources for Brain Health Across the Lifespan

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: adult-neurogenesis, brain-awareness, Brain-health, Brain-Plasticity, Carol-Dweck, change, creativity, exercise, fixed-mindset, growth-mindset, human-brain, innovation, Johy-Ratey, MIT, Neurogenesis, neuroplasticity, neuroscience-for-kids, Norman-Doidge, resources, Society-for-Neuroscience, The-Brain-That-Changes-Itself

Learning & the Brain: Resources for Educators

July 20, 2008 by Laurie Bartels

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 while pro­vid­ing infor­ma­tion applic­a­ble to the teaching/learning process.

Among the more pro­lif­ic or well-known authors of this type include Jeb Schenck, Robert Syl­west­er, Bar­bara Givens, Robert Marzano, Mar­ilee Sprenger, and Eric Jensen.

I have found books [Read more…] about Learn­ing & the Brain: Resources for Educators

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Filed Under: Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: adult-brain, Barbara-Givens, brain, Brain-&-Learning, brainpower, educators, Eric-Jensen, exercise, human-brain, Jeb-Schenck, John-Ratey, Laurie-Bartels, Learning, Learning-&-The-Brain, Learning-&-the-Brain-Conference, LeDoux, Marilee-Sprenger, memory, mind, neuroscience, Nutrition, OshKosh, remember, resources, Resources-for-Educators, Robert-Marzano, Robert-Sylwester, sleep, stroke, students

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