“Brain Rules” is the name given to the book and multimedia presentations of Dr. John Medina. Engaging is the best description of his writings on the brain. Accessible and humorous presentation of research on the brain is accompanied by applications of the research that should help teachers. Some of the take aways were:


Attention:
http://bubbl.us/view.php?sid=148246&pw=yaVWC.w6Lr12UMzJ5VTkxRWRNTUo3SQ
Memory:
http://bubbl.us/view.php?sid=148253&pw=yaVWC.w6Lr12UMzI3VDA5M3JraVp1cw


Sensory Integration:
http://bubbl.us/view.php?sid=148264&pw=yaVWC.w6Lr12UMzJWdE9pOTZCQ

Can’t wait to see where this is going next….

I confess I stole this piece from Joni’s blog. I thought it was very thought provoking and simple in design. What I like about Joni’s blog is that it is also a collection of teaching ideas. I don’t know that I’ve used my blog this way so much (granted this blog wasn’t originally set up for this class). But, I’m going to try to do more of that with this blog. The KSU group producing this You Tube video has several other interesting looking clips on You Tube.

Longer hour long presentation on learning and new media from the man whose class created the first video.