Designing educational experiences without knowledge of the brain is like designing a glove without knowledge of the hand.
—LESLIE HART
Chapter 3: Digital Age Learners: Mind, Brain, and Cognition
Learn More:
- The Nature of Learning: Using Research to Inspire Practice, by H. Dumont, D. Istance, & F. Benavides
Attention Blindness
- Daniel Simons: Seeing the world as it isn’t [Video] (youtu.be/9Il_D3Xt9W0)
- American Psychological Association: Sights unseen (apa.org/monitor/apr01/blindness.aspx)
Mind, Brain, and Education
- Dr. Mariale Hardiman: The Brain-Targeted Teaching model [Video] (youtu.be/ZUbyi5Acc2U)
- National Academies Press: Misconceptions as barriers to understanding science (nap.edu/read/5287/chapter/5)
- Dr. Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa: Neuromyths [Video] (youtu.be/ED_MdfkPONw).
- The difference between mind, brain and education, educational neuroscience and the learning sciences [Video] (youtu.be/nAGsJ3xP944)
Social-Emotional Topics
- Common Sense Education: Digital citizenship and social-emotional learning (bit.ly/2QfqqOa)
- Center of the Developing Child, Harvard University: Toxic stress (bit.ly/2XM0c8D)
Deep Dive
- Annenberg Learner: Thinking about thinking: Metacognition [Course] (bit.ly/2WGphWh)
- Ambrose, S. A., Bridges, M. W., DiPietro, M., Lovett, M. C., & Norman, M. K. (2010). How learning works: Seven research-based principles for smart teaching. John Wiley & Sons.
- The Collaborative for Social and Emotional Learning (casel.org/csi-resources)
- Dulak, J. Domitrovich, C. Weissberg, R. Gullotta T. (Eds.) (2016) Handbook of Social and Emotional Learning- Research and Practice. New York: Guilford Press.
- Dweck, C. (2007). Mindset: The new psychology of success. New York: Ballantine Books.
- Piaget, J. (1971a). The theory of stages in cognitive development. In D. Green, M. P. Ford, & G. B. Flamer (Eds.), Measurement and Piaget (pp. 1e11). New York: McGraw-Hill.
- Piaget, J. (1976). The grasp of consciousness. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University
- Piaget, J. (1981). Intelligence and affectivity. Palo Alto: Annual reviews, Inc. (Original work published 1954).
- Piaget, J. (1987). Possibility and necessity: The role of possibility in cognitive development. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press (Original work published 1983).
- Piaget, J. (2001). The psychology of intelligence. New York: Routledge.