The Brain

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Brain
Weighs 1300 - 1400 g Made up of about 100 billion neurons

The most complex living structure on the universe

Makes us who we are

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Brain structure
Cerebrum

hypothalamus

cerebellum

Pituitary gland

medulla

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Parts of the cerebrum

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Parts of the cerebrum

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Motor strip and homunculus

Motor strip

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Exterior Parts of the Brain

Frontal Lobes planning & thinking Temporal Lobe sound, speech, LTM Occipital visual processing

Parietal lobe orientation, calculations

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Interior Parts of the Brain

Limbic System generation of emotions Thalamus processes sensory stimuli except smell Hippocampus checks info in working memory to stored experiences
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Cerebral Mode

L E F T M O D E V E R B A L

Logical Analytical Fact Based Qualitative

Holistic Intuitive Integrating Synthesizing

R I G H T
M O D E No n V E R B A L

Organized Sequential Planned Detailed

Interpersonal Emotional Kinesthetic Feeling Based

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Brain Transmissions
Neurons transmit impulses along an axon and across the synapse to the dendrites of the neighboring cell
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1,000,000,000,000,000 synapses
Learning occurs by changing the synapses so that the influence of one neuron on another also changes.

The more complex the skills demanded in an occupation, the more dendrites were found on the neurons creates more sites in which to store learnings

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How the Brain Learns

Connections the brain finds useful become permanent; those not useful are eliminated as the brain selectively strengthens and prunes connections based on experience. What are the implications for teaching?
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The Brain is a novelty seeker

The brain has a persistent interest in novelty.

An environment that contains mostly predictable stimuli lowers the brains interest

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Information Processing Model

Learning Storing Remembering
Are all dynamic and interactive processes

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Information Processing Model

It limits its scope to the major cerebral operations that deal with:
Collecting Evaluating Storing Retrieving information The parts that are most useful to educators

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How the Brain Learns

Colleton County School District Administrative Meeting July 28, 2005

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How the Brain Learns

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Ishant Sinha Shimla

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