Two articles to recommend on this week’s topics

The first is from the Brain Connection website:

http://brainconnection.positscience.com/topics/?main=fa/brain-based

First, I want point out a great quote I found in this article:

“Teaching without an awareness of how the brain learns is like designing a glove with no sense of what a hand looks like” – Leslie Hart

What a memorable quote!  Overall, this article is succinct overview of the current theories in brain-based learning.  Specifically, the 12 Mind/Brain Principles and the 3 conditions for learning of Caine and Caine.

This will definitely be something to refer back to when starting new instructional design projects.

The second is from the website for the University of Valdosta Educational Psychology website:

http://www.edpsycinteractive.org/topics/cogsys/infoproc.html

This article is good overview of the material covered in chapter 3 of the Ormrod, Schunk and Gredler text.  I especially liked the table at the end with examples of putting information processing theory in practice in the classroom.

This a good article to bookmark for easy reference.