Connie Weber

Here's an article by the speaker I'm listening to now: Kurt Fischer (from Harvard).

Can the Differences Between Education and Neuroscience be Overcome by Mind, Brain, and Education?

A stunningly meaty article on the rise of a new field. Neuromyths; the history of education's relation to use of science to inform practice; philosophy, epistemology, a transdisciplinary collaborational framework..… Continue

the current speaker, Kenneth S. Kosik, is talking about "The Wikification of Knowledge."

"An External Hard Drive for the Brain

As a neuroscientist who spends time thinking about how people’s brains process information, this technology—and the information overflow it brings—are without a doubt changing the way human beings make decisions. Neuroscientists have increasingly come to understand memory as a fun… Continue

I'm at the Learning and the Brain Conference in Cambridge. Just want to post this link immediately. I learned of Mary Helen as a study group leader in Harvard Project Zero and Future of Learning last summer. When our group participants would come back from her sessions, there were stars in their eyes. They were dazzled, stunned. It's as if they had been deep sea diving and had just come to the surface, astonished at the worlds they had seen. I wondered, what in the world? Now I know why p… Continue

The first pictures are of the current week's projects, an overview, and then records of a few discussions we've had in class, about the Big Ideas for the year. The rest of the photos are from a project that goes with our group reading of Finn Family Moomintroll, a fantasy by Tove Jansson. The exercise that's shown here is the result of a Project Zero approach, a Thinking Skills Routine called Headlines. How the students loved it!

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