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Natural learning for a connected world : education, technology, and the human brain / Renate N. Caine, Geoffrey Caine ; foreword by Joseph Chilton Pearce.

Van Pelt Library LB1060 .C334 2011
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Caine, Renate Nummela.
Contributor:
Caine, Geoffrey.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Learning, Psychology of.
Cognition in children.
Educational technology--Psychological aspects.
Educational technology.
Education--Effect of technological innovations on.
Education.
Education--Aims and objectives.
Physical Description:
xiv, 240 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Place of Publication:
New York : Teachers College, [2011]
Summary:
Why do video games fascinate kids so much that they will spend hours pursuing a difficult skill? Why don't they apply this kind of intensity to their schoolwork? These questions are answered by the authors who pioneered brain/mind learning with the publication of Making Connections: Teaching and the Human Brain. In their new book, Natural Learning for a Connected World, Caine and Caine build a bridge to the future of education with a dynamic model of teaching that works for all grade levels and all cultural and ethnic groups. The authors' education model, the Guided Experience Approach, is based on the scientific foundation of learning as a totally natural, continuous interaction between perception and action. This important book provides a practical, step-by-step description and successful examples from practice so that we can finally provide the learning environment essential for our children to thrive in the knowledge age.
Contents:
Who and what are educating our children?
How is technology impacting the world of traditional education?
What are the powerful beliefs about learning and teaching that keep education frozen in place?
What do students need in order to successfully prepare for the future?
The perception/action dynamic: the foundation for learning from life
The science behind the perception/action cycle
Perception/action learning
Goals and outcomes: building rich neural networks requires real world knowledge
Side by side: traditional and perception/action learning, a model
Motivation, the engine that drives perception/action learning
The optimal state of mind for learning
How the "system" engages the low road
Working with biological predispositions
How a village, school, and society teach
Implementing the guided experience approach: the three critical elements
Relaxed alertness
Orchestrated immersion
Active processing
Window into tomorrow.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780807751893
0807751898
9780807751909
0807751901
OCLC:
690904417

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