Neuroscience Concepts Changed Teachers’ Views of Pedagogy and Students

Advances in neuroscience reveal how individual brains change as learning occurs. Translating this neuroscience into practice has largely been unidirectional, from researchers to teachers. However, how teachers view and incorporate neuroscience ideas in their classroom practices remains relatively unexplored. Previously fourteen non-science teachers participated in a 3-week three credit graduate course focusing on foundational ideas in neuroscience. The current work was undertaken to gain insight into if and how individual teachers choose to later apply the proposed set of educational neuroscience concepts (ENCs) in their classrooms. This qualitative follow-up study examined commonalities in how teachers of diverse ages and subjects utilized their new neuroscience understandings. To this end, a year after the course, all participants assessed their perceived usefulness of the ENCs in a survey.

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The survey revealed that irrespective of subject areas or grade levels taught, teachers found the ENCs useful as organizing principles for their pedagogy now and in the future. Overall teachers estimated that the ENCs’ influence on lesson design had increased from 51% prior to the course to an estimated 90% for future lessons.

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Flexibility in the humanoid robots

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Sitting for Hours May Shrink the Brain

Prolonged sedentary behavior in adults over 50 is linked to cognitive decline and brain shrinkage in regions vulnerable to Alzheimer’s disease. Even among those who exercise regularly, spending more time sitting was associated with worse cognitive outcomes.

The effect was strongest in individuals carrying the APOE-e4 gene, a major genetic risk factor for Alzheimer’s. These findings suggest that breaking up sedentary time throughout the day may be a key strategy for protecting brain health and reducing Alzheimer’s risk, especially in genetically vulnerable individuals.

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📚 Dopamine Nation

Anna Lembke

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This book is about pleasure. It’s also about pain. Most important, it’s about how to find the delicate balance between the two, and why now more than ever finding balance is essential. We’re living in a time of unprecedented access to high-reward, high-dopamine stimuli: drugs, food, news, gambling, shopping, gaming, texting, sexting, Facebooking, Instagramming, YouTubing, tweeting . . . The increased numbers, variety, and potency is staggering. The smartphone is the modern-day hypodermic needle, delivering digital dopamine 24/7 for a wired generation. As such we’ve all become vulnerable to compulsive overconsumption.

In Dopamine Nation, Dr. Anna Lembke, psychiatrist and author, explores the exciting new scientific discoveries that explain why the relentless pursuit of pleasure leads to pain . . . and what to do about it. Condensing complex neuroscience into easy-to-understand metaphors, Lembke illustrates how finding contentment and connectedness means keeping dopamine in check. The lived experiences of her patients are the gripping fabric of her narrative. Their riveting stories of suffering and redemption give us all hope for managing our consumption and transforming our lives. In essence, Dopamine Nation shows that the secret to finding balance is combining the science of desire with the wisdom of recovery.

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📚The Anxious Generation

Jonathan Haidt

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After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s. Rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rose sharply, more than doubling on many measures. Why?

In The Anxious Generation, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen mental illness that hit many countries at the same time. He then investigates the nature of childhood, including why children need play and independent exploration to mature into competent, thriving adults. Haidt shows how the “play-based childhood” began to decline in the 1980s, and how it was finally wiped out by the arrival of the “phone-based childhood” in the early 2010s. He presents more than a dozen mechanisms by which this “great rewiring of childhood” has interfered with children’s social and neurological development, covering everything from sleep deprivation to attention fragmentation, addiction, loneliness, social contagion, social comparison, and perfectionism. He explains why social media damages girls more than boys and why boys have been withdrawing from the real world into the virtual world, with disastrous consequences for themselves, their families, and their societies.

Most important, Haidt issues a clear call to action. He diagnoses the “collective action problems” that trap us, and then proposes four simple rules that might set us free. He describes steps that parents, teachers, schools, tech companies, and governments can take to end the epidemic of mental illness and restore a more humane childhood.

Haidt has spent his career speaking truth backed by data in the most difficult landscapes—communities polarized by politics and religion, campuses battling culture wars, and now the public health emergency faced by Gen Z. We cannot afford to ignore his findings about protecting our children—and ourselves—from the psychological damage of a phone-based life.

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▪️دهه هشتادی ها چقدر متفاوت فکر می کنند، عمل می کنند و به چالش می کشند! تغییرات گسترده در جامعه در ابعاد مختلف از این نسل شروع می شود. فرزندان آنها آغازگر تغییراتی خواهد بود که پیش‌بینی آنها کاملا دور از ذهن است ولی ماگما در حال یافتن راه خروج و ایجاد جریانات سریع برای اعمال نفوذ خود است. امید که مثبت و ثمر بخش برای کل جامعه خانواده ها باشند. بیشتر به تفاوت این نسل با نسل های‌ قبل تر از آن در ادبیات تعامل و تمایلات آنها توجه کنید. موافقید؟

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Manage your time in apps
Open your device's Settings app.
Tap Digital Wellbeing & parental controls.
The chart shows your device use today. For more info, tap the chart. For example: Screen time: What apps you've had on screen and for how long. ...
To get more info or change app settings, tap a listed app.

▪️از بخش widgets چک کنید چقدر هست زمان تماشای اسکرین شما و چه میزان برای هر اپ. اعتیاد که ندارید؟

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🎼Endless Love

Judyesther

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There’s more than one way to load a dishwasher.

Emotionally Intelligent People Use the Dishwasher Rule to Build Stronger Relationships and Become Better LeadersThe ‘dishwasher rule’ is more than a maxim, it’s a memory aid that will help you practice emotionally intelligent leadership.

This nine-word sentence is more than a simple maxim, it’s a rule I use to help me practice emotional intelligence, which includes the ability to manage emotions. How can this simple sentence help you be a better business owner and leader? It all comes down to why you get emotionally attached to your way of doing things in the first place.

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The beauty of diversity

Perspectives are different. Ways of doing things are different. 

But variety is a good thing: It allows for creativity. Individualism. Freedom of expression.

Keeping this principle in mind will make you a more emotionally intelligent leader. Yes, there are certain tasks and processes your people need to follow. But when you remind yourself to give others freedom and space when appropriate, you won’t micromanage; instead, you’ll recognize that it’s not bad to do things another way, especially if the job still gets done.

Not only is it not bad—it’s good, because it helps people feel safe and comfortable in the workplace. This is part of building an emotionally intelligent culture, one with trust and psychological safety, which allow people to enjoy their jobs more.

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🎥 Stonehearst Asylum

Stonehearst Asylum, previously known as Eliza Graves, is an American psychological horror film directed by Brad Anderson and written by Joseph Gangemi. It is loosely based on the 1845 short story "The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether" by Edgar Allan Poe. The film, starring Kate Beckinsale, Jim Sturgess, Michael Caine, Ben Kingsley, and David Thewlis, was released on October 24, 2014.

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Duolingo CEO says AI is a better teacher than humans—but schools will still exist ‘because you still need childcare’

Language-learning app Duolingo has been leaning heavily into AI. The company with an owl mascot temporarily replaced its CEO with an AI avatar on an earnings call last year—and evenmore controversially, it announced last month it would permanently replace its contract workers with AI.

Now the company has much broader ambitions. With a community of 116 million users a month, Duolingo has amassed loads of data about how people learn, accumulating tricks to keep learners engaged over the long term and even know how well a student will score on a test before they take it. According to founder and CEO Luis von Ahn, AI’s ability to individualize learning will lead to most teaching being done by computers in the next few decades.

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“Ultimately, I’m not sure that there’s anything computers can’t really teach you,” von Ahn said on the No Priors podcast recently.

He predicted education would radically change, because “it’s just a lot more scalable to teach with AI than with teachers.”

“By the way, that doesn’t mean the teachers are going to go away, you still need people to take care of the students,” he added. “I also don’t think schools are going to go away, because you still need childcare.”

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