Neuroscience+and+Education

This article was full of different type of information but I tried to stay on focus with the topics of the brain and learning:

In this article the author pretty much disagreed with brain based ideas. The author wrote that " Education has already invested an immense amount of time and money in ‘brain-based’ ideas that were never based on any recognizable scientific understanding of the brain." He said that their needs to be more of a __//dialogue between neuroscience and education//__ to allow for a better understanding of the brain.

This article does discuss how students //__showing their work and help aid in the learning process because it can help take away some of the heavy demands on the working memory.__// Another part the article discusses is Neurofeedback. Neurofeedback refers to monitoring of one's brain activity with a view to influencing it. Recent work found it helpful in improving the performance ability of music students.

A big part of all the articles is about the brain and biology. One important thing that this article discusses is that the way they think can be changed. The article discusses how their have been studies done that have shown the structure of the brain, even an adults brain, can be changed by and educational experience. One of the study using juggling the brain areas activated at the beginning of a three month period increased in size by the end. But after three months of rest these areas shrunk back to their original size. This basically proving the importance of education and that //__if you don't use it you lose it.__// The article also talks about other research that was related to Alzheimer's disease. The results showed that even after the onset of Alzheimer's there is evidence that the progress of some symptoms can be diminished by training.