science behind better learning.

- A child's brain responds to environmental sensory data, determining what information gets their attention.

'Many educators lack the knowledge and expertise in neuroscience and cognitive science to support students with different learning strengths within the constraints of the typical increasingly rigid curriculum.

Keys to learning -"RAD learning"

R: Reticular activating system (RAS) - The Attention-Activation Switching System.

"Ras is key to to turn on the the brain levels response" - teachable moments.

+ That Selective information passes thru a lower brain filter (Reticular activating system/RAS)

+ RAS - particularly responsive to novelty/surprise/color/unexpected curious events.

A: Affective filter in the amygdala - Emotional Significance. Emotional Filter.

+ The 2nd filter, part of the brain -> Amygdala -> The Emotional Processing Limbic Network.

+ What is stored in the Amygdala at this point depends on the emotional state of the child.

+ When Stress is high (Bullying, attention difficulties, confusion, boredom, -> The information diverts to the reflex automatic system. ->Non-thinking system, such as fight/flight, dominate.

or in other words blocks the absorption of sensory input related to learning, due to the stimuli being perceived as negative and learning becomes difficult.

+ Stress takes up all the brains nutrients, high activity in the amygdala blocks entry of information, to the thinking brain and memory.

+ When your child is relaxed, comfortable and interested, the amygdala directs the information to the reflective thinking of the brain.

+The hippocampus is where the previous knowledge and memories of past experiences from memory storage.

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+ Children always see a connection between the memories they have to new information.

+ When Emotions is positive -> It is passed onto the reflective memory-making & other thinking networks in the brain.

- When also using the 5 senses of touch, taste, smell, hearing, vision, the brain matches it with the previously stored data.

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D: Dopamine.

- When learning is associated with pleasure, dopamine is released, which increases focus, helping the brain stay attentive. Hence increases a childs capacity to control attention and store long term memories.

Activities that include, physical movement, personal interest connections, social contacts, music, novelty, sense of achievement, intrinsic reward, choice, play and humor.

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Rote Memory - is the schools method, simply memorizing, and soon forgetting, uninteresting facts, that are not paired with interesting connections. so no neural networks can be be permanently constructed.

- By Personalizing, connecting & motivational learning strategies, improves the memory.

- Also patterning & prediction can build knowledge,

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MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES:

- Linguistic: sensitivity to sounds, rhythms & words, organizational abilities, logical deduction,

memory sensitivity to spoken and written language, mnemonics & structured, sequential notes or instructions.

Logical-Mathematical: logic, patterning, conceptualization and abstraction

Musical-Rhythmic: includes sensitivity to auditory tone, pitch, rhythm. Proficiencies in auditory memory and patterning.

Visual-spatial: sensitivity to the relationships of objects, concepts, images in different fields or dimensions. mentally creating & visualizing spatial relationships, as in mapping or diagramming, and starting with a big picture conceptual overview before filling in details.

bodily-kinesthetic: includes perceptiveness & sensitivity to others moods and feelings. ability to interact with and lead people with understanding by interpreting their intensions, needs, emotions, and desires.

interpersonal: confidence in ones beliefs and goals. ability to reflect upon ones own thoughs and feelings, introspection, analysis and reflection.

naturalist: includes perceptiveness of things existing in the natural world, such as plants and animals. includes organizing things into categories, detailed observation and pattern recognition.

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LEARNING STYLES:

Auditory-Sequential/Analytical Learners:

- logical order and sequence. - evident in children who respond best to spoken information.

- they study methodically - making timelines, lists and other sequences using facts.

- they respong to talking or reading out loud to themselves and being quizzed verbally when studying.

- they benefit from expanding on a topic by reasoning and predicting logical implications.

- one task at a time.

- weakness can be understanding the big concept without thoroughly understanding the steps that build it.

Visual-Spatial Learners:

- process information best when a topic is introduced as an overview before the details are taught.

- they think primarily in images and prefer visual explanations, videos, diagrams, computer simulations/graphics and demos.

- they learn thru reasoning of their own problems

- they like to see the final product, and figure out by intuition the solution.

- they have problems organizing time & prioritizing activities

Kinesthetic Preference learners:

- touch what they are learning and respond well to learning activities with movement.

" Brain rest helps if the learning activity involves complex material, brain rest can be necessary after as little as 15minutes. during this rests, the newly learnt material has the opportunity to go from working memory to relational memory. (although doesnt become permanent until practice.

stretching, singing, playing an instrument, tossing a ball, rehydrating with water, doing this will associate a return to a pleasurable activity.