Janet Brohm Lois Oestreich Salt Lake Community College

 Cell phones  Active  Be sure to ask  Share your experiences

 John Medina: Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School  Elizabeth Barkley: Student Engagement Techniques: A Handbook for College Faculty

 We don’t pay attention to boring things  We pay attention to:  Emotions  Threats  Sex  Can I eat it? Will it eat me?  Can I mate with it? Will it mate with me?  Have I seen it before?

The brain and multi-tasking? The brain and driving vs. the cell phone? Schools actually encourage multi-tasking – Your error rate increases 50% When you’re always on(line), you’re always distracted

 Human brain can only hold about 7 pieces of info for less than 30 seconds!  Repeat to remember  Improve memory:  Elaborately encoding in initial moments

 Medina’s work in Seattle schools  If brain scientists got together with teachers  May eliminate (or greatly reduce) homework

 It takes years to consolidate a memory.  First grade = sophomore year  Medina’s dream school  One that repeats what is learned minutes after the initial learning  How do you remember better?  Repeated exposure  Specifically timed intervals

 If you want to remember, remember to repeat  repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat

 Senses work together  Stimulate them  Sight, sound, taste, smell, touch  Smell  Evokes memories  The learning link  Multisensory environments produce better learning