{"id":98,"date":"2010-12-08T16:56:50","date_gmt":"2010-12-08T23:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/learningcommons\/?p=98"},"modified":"2010-12-08T16:56:50","modified_gmt":"2010-12-08T23:56:50","slug":"neuro-myths-separating-fact-and-fiction-in-brain-based-learning-edutopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/learningcommons\/2010\/12\/08\/neuro-myths-separating-fact-and-fiction-in-brain-based-learning-edutopia\/","title":{"rendered":"Neuro Myths: Separating Fact and Fiction in Brain-Based Learning | Edutopia"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>With the great popularity of so-called brain-based learning, however, comes great risk. &#8220;So much of what is published and said is useless,&#8221; says Kurt Fischer, founding president of the International Mind, Brain, and Education (MBE) Society and director of the MBE graduate program at Harvard University. &#8220;Much of it is wrong, a lot is empty or vapid, and some is not based in neuroscience at all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Still, there are some powerful insights emerging from brain science that speak directly to how we teach in the classroom: learning experiences do help the brain grow, emotional safety does influence learning, and making lessons relevant can help information stick. The trick is separating the meat from the marketing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edutopia.org\/neuroscience-brain-based-learning-myth-busting\">Neuro Myths: Separating Fact and Fiction in Brain-Based Learning | Edutopia<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the great popularity of so-called brain-based learning, however, comes great risk. &#8220;So much of what is published and said is useless,&#8221; says Kurt Fischer, founding president of the International Mind, Brain, and Education (MBE) Society and director of the MBE graduate program at Harvard University. &#8220;Much of it is wrong, a lot is empty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/learningcommons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/learningcommons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/learningcommons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/learningcommons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/learningcommons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/learningcommons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/learningcommons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/learningcommons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/learningcommons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}