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When asked how educators can learn more about using brain research in the classroom, nearly everyone says the same thing: Read as much as possible; be analytical; be skeptical; take action. “You have to gravitate toward things that are actually research based,” says Cameron “There's a lot of hype out there.” “Where to start?” muses Pat Wolfe. “Not the media. The reporting of brain research is often very simplified there. Over simplified. And almost none of what you'll find will say anything about teaching.” “If you're a teacher and you want to have a brain scientist tell you how to teach in the classroom, probably I would say you're thinking about it incorrectly,” says Fischer. “I think back to the '70s when we had some biologists going around telling us that we had to educate boys and girls differently because their brain growth patterns were different. A lot of teachers took it very seriously because it was scientists who were saying it, even though the data on the learning showed nothing to prove it.”
Jerry Gabriel lives in Ithaca, New York. He holds degrees from The Ohio State University, Northern Arizona University, and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. His fiction and non-fiction have appeared in a number of magazines and newspapers. What did you think of this article? Send us your comments!
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