Since posting my previous piece (When Learning Hurts – Toxic Learning) earlier this week, another blog focused on medical neuroscience posted a great overview of math anxiety called “Brain Markers of Math Anxiety“. The post refers to a study “The Neurodevelopmental Basis of Math Anxiety” that has identified the neural correlates of math anxiety for [...]
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When Learning Hurts – Toxic Learning
What and how students learn can have toxic effects on how well they learn thereafter. It’s vitally important that educators understand this.
Help Us Reduce Reading Shame!
We are raising funds to give our DVD sets to the teachers and literacy volunteers that need it the most but can afford it the least. Help us!
What does it mean that most of our children are CHRONICALLY IMPROFICIENT in the skills most critically important for success in school?
What does it mean that most of our children are CHRONICALLY IMPROFICIENT in the skill areas most critically important for success in school?
Is Wealth Inequality A Matter of Choice?
The attribution of choice lies at the heart of virtually all forms of social inequality and what might also be called “self-inequality”. How we hold ourselves responsible for our choices forms much of the basis for how proud or ashamed of ourselves we are. How we hold others responsible for their choices forms much of the basis of our judgements about them. After all, if we believe that ‘success’ is the product of individual choice then so to is ‘failure’.
Re: Discovering How to Learn Smarter
Re: Discovering How to Learn Smarter http://mindshift.kqed.org/2012/02/discovering-how-to-learn-smarter/ Responded on two levels: 1) re: self-esteem: There is a difference between self-esteem as accumulated positivity and self-esteem as a buoyant absence of self-negativity. Of the two major domains of unhealthy learning, maladaptive cognitive schema and unconscious emotional aversions, the later, and in particular ‘mind-shame’, is largely the result of learned self-disesteem. 2) learning about the [...]
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