April 4 2015 Robert Payo robertpayodmnsorg A good place to start Meet Leo Leo Share a time you were surprised inspired or intrigued by how the brain works Share a time when you helped a student or students with a breakthrough by honing in on how their brains worked ID: 790933
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Minds-On Brains: A Hybrid Course
April 4, 2015
Robert Payo robert.payo@dmns.org
Slide2A good place to start:
Meet Leo
Leo
Slide3Share a time you were surprised, inspired or intrigued by how the brain works
Share a time when you helped a student (or students) with a breakthrough by honing in on how their brain(s) worked
Each of you: Boil down what you talked about into a sentence
Slide4BRAIN Development
& Evolution
Strategies for
LEARNING
BRAIN
research
Further study, reflection
application
ONLINE COURSE
Slide5New York
San Francisco
Denver
Slide6Module 3: Evolution
Module 2:
Senses
Module 1: Brain Parts
ONLINE COURSE
Weeks 1 & 2
Weeks 3 & 4
Weeks 5 & 6
Slide7Strategies for LEARNING
BRAIN
Build your background knowledge
Build awareness of your own brain—i.e. become a
BrainHead
Reinforce what you already know about effective teaching
Become more intentional about teaching with the brain in mind, expanding your perspectives on all of this
Improve student learning
BRAIN Development
& Evolution
Slide8Make a 3-tab foldable
Page 1
Page 2
Slide9Page 1
Page 2
Take a moment and write 2 course goals for yourself
in the first tab of your foldable. Label the tab “Course Goals”
Course Goals
Slide10For Today
Seeing inside the brain: Imaging, Structure
4 Ways
to support the brain in learning—Structure, Function, Learning
Firing the Network
Attention
Reward
Emotion
Online Course
Special Guests….
Slide11Slide12Seeing inside the brain
Slide13Neurodome
—dun dun
duuunnh
!
Tuesday, April 28th, 7pm at DMNS
(Register on dmns.org, promo code:
Brain20
)
Slide14Seeing inside the brain
Guiding question:
How can we tell when a brain is becoming more efficient?
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Slide15Seeing inside the brain: Structurally
Slide16Cerebrum
Cerebellum
Brain stem
CAT Scan
Slide17Slide18Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI)
Slide19RED
:
Horizontal (X
)BLUE: Foot-Head (Z)GREEN: Back-Front (Y)
Z
X
Y
http://video.mit.edu/watch/diffusion-tensor-imaging-14250
Slide20White matter
: Transmits information
Grey matter:
Processes information
Corpus
callosum
Hippocampus
Decussation
of the Superior
Cerebellar
Peduncle
http://www.neuroanatomy.ca
Slide21White matter: Transmits informationGrey matter: Processes information
http://www.brainmuseum.org
Slide22White matter
: Transmits informationGrey matter:
Processes information
Axon
Cell body
Myelin
:White Matter
: Grey Matter
Slide23Staining neurons
"
Smi32neuron" by UC Regents Davis campus - http://brainmaps.org. Licensed under CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Smi32neuron.jpg#/media/File:Smi32neuron.jpg
Slide24Slide25Brainbow
:
Gene expression under fluorescent light
http://www.livescience.com
Slide26Connectome
Slide27Source: Corel, JL. The postnatal development of the human cerebral cortex. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; 1975
Neuron Growth and Connection over time
?
?
Slide28Seeing inside the brain
Guiding question:
How can we tell when a brain is becoming more efficient?
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Slide29PET Scan
Slide30Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging: fMRI
Measures
patterns of brain activity
AMNH
Slide31Carl-Johan Olsson
Peter Lundström
(2013)
Motor Skill and Practice: Hockey Players
Slide32Cultural Differences and the BrainFramed-line task: East Asians vs
Americans
Shinobu
Kitayama (2003)Trey
Heyden (2008)
Slide33Test 1
Test 2
2
nd
box: Draw a line of the same length as in the first box
2
nd
box: Draw a line in proportion to the line
in the first box
Slide34http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2008/psychology-0111
Slide35http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2008/psychology-0111
Slide36http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2008/psychology-0111
Slide37fMRI
: Language and the Brain
AMNH
Slide38Seeing inside the brain
Guiding question:
How can we tell when a brain is becoming more efficient?
Jot down your thoughts in the 2
nd tab of your foldable
Brain efficiency
Course goals
What did you already know?
What changed about what you know?
What questions do you have?
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