April 9, 2009 Edutopia webinar: "How the Brain Learns Best: Strategies to Make Learning Stick"

How the Brain Learns Best: Strategies to Make Learning Stick 1 Webinar ID: 142-908-197 / Dial-in: (312) 878-0211/ Code: 556-344-107 THE GEORGE LUCAS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | | THE GEORGE LUCAS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION WHAT WORKS IN PUBLIC EDUCATION WHAT WORKS IN PUBLIC EDUCATION| | EDUTOPIA.ORG EDUTOPIA.ORG

Webinar Protocols Audio Listen online, or dial in: (312) 878-0211; code: 556-344-107. Attendees are muted. Useful Information Webinar ID: 142-908-197. Q&A Use the Questions panel to submit questions. Recordings Recordings of the webinar will be emailed to all attendees. Problems? Call 1 (800) 263-6317 (U.S. & Canada). Email gotowebinar@citrixonline.com. THE GEORGE LUCAS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | | THE GEORGE LUCAS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION WHAT WORKS IN PUBLIC EDUCATION WHAT WORKS IN PUBLIC EDUCATION| | EDUTOPIA.ORG EDUTOPIA.ORG 2

How the Brain Learns Best: Strategies to Make Learning Stick 3 Webinar ID: 142-908-197 / Dial-in: (312) 878-0211/ Code: 556-344-107 THE GEORGE LUCAS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | | THE GEORGE LUCAS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION WHAT WORKS IN PUBLIC EDUCATION WHAT WORKS IN PUBLIC EDUCATION| | EDUTOPIA.ORG EDUTOPIA.ORG

Dr. Judy Willis middle school teacher, neurologist, and authority on learning-centered brain research of Milton THE GEORGE LUCAS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | | THE GEORGE LUCAS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION WHAT WORKS IN PUBLIC EDUCATION WHAT WORKS IN PUBLIC EDUCATION| | EDUTOPIA.ORG EDUTOPIA.ORG 4

Influencing the Brain’s Structure and Function What information gets into students’ brains, and where it goes Encourage productive response to learning: reflective, not reactive Increasing students' ability to learn (and retain) new skills and information THE GEORGE LUCAS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | | THE GEORGE LUCAS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION WHAT WORKS IN PUBLIC EDUCATION WHAT WORKS IN PUBLIC EDUCATION| | EDUTOPIA.ORG EDUTOPIA.ORG 5

Prefrontal cortex 6 THE GEORGE LUCAS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | | THE GEORGE LUCAS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION THE GEORGE LUCAS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | WHAT WORKS IN PUBLIC EDUCATION WHAT WORKS IN PUBLIC EDUCATION WHAT WORKS IN PUBLIC EDUCATION| | EDUTOPIA.ORG | EDUTOPIA.ORG EDUTOPIA.ORG 6

7 Pathway to Conscious Thinking in the Prefrontal Cortex THE GEORGE LUCAS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | | THE GEORGE LUCAS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION THE GEORGE LUCAS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | 7 WHAT WORKS IN PUBLIC EDUCATION WHAT WORKS IN PUBLIC EDUCATION WHAT WORKS IN PUBLIC EDUCATION| | EDUTOPIA.ORG | EDUTOPIA.ORG EDUTOPIA.ORG

To get to the conscious, reflective, thinking brain, sensory input must first be unconsciously 8 be “selected.” THE GEORGE LUCAS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | | THE GEORGE LUCAS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION THE GEORGE LUCAS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | WHAT WORKS IN PUBLIC EDUCATION WHAT WORKS IN PUBLIC EDUCATION WHAT WORKS IN PUBLIC EDUCATION| | EDUTOPIA.ORG | EDUTOPIA.ORG EDUTOPIA.ORG 8

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Survival First. Reduce Stress: Input can go through the RAS to the reflective brain. THE GEORGE LUCAS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | | THE GEORGE LUCAS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION WHAT WORKS IN PUBLIC EDUCATION WHAT WORKS IN PUBLIC EDUCATION| | EDUTOPIA.ORG EDUTOPIA.ORG 11

RA RAS Interventions Stability and Familiarity Then stimulate Curiosity with Change, Novelty, & SuRPrise! S 12 THE GEORGE LUCAS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | | THE GEORGE LUCAS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION THE GEORGE LUCAS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | WHAT WORKS IN PUBLIC EDUCATION WHAT WORKS IN PUBLIC EDUCATION WHAT WORKS IN PUBLIC EDUCATION| | EDUTOPIA.ORG | EDUTOPIA.ORG EDUTOPIA.ORG 12

“The force will be with you.” 14 THE GEORGE LUCAS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | | THE GEORGE LUCAS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION THE GEORGE LUCAS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | WHAT WORKS IN PUBLIC EDUCATION WHAT WORKS IN PUBLIC EDUCATION WHAT WORKS IN PUBLIC EDUCATION| | EDUTOPIA.ORG | EDUTOPIA.ORG EDUTOPIA.ORG 14

AMYGDALA 18 THE GEORGE LUCAS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | | THE GEORGE LUCAS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION THE GEORGE LUCAS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | WHAT WORKS IN PUBLIC EDUCATION WHAT WORKS IN PUBLIC EDUCATION WHAT WORKS IN PUBLIC EDUCATION| | EDUTOPIA.ORG | EDUTOPIA.ORG EDUTOPIA.ORG 18

!mygdal" #mo$onal Fil%r and Conduc&' Stressed state: input directed to reactive brain = fight/flight/freeze Relaxed, alert state: input goes to reflective brain 19 THE GEORGE LUCAS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | | THE GEORGE LUCAS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION THE GEORGE LUCAS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | WHAT WORKS IN PUBLIC EDUCATION WHAT WORKS IN PUBLIC EDUCATION WHAT WORKS IN PUBLIC EDUCATION| | EDUTOPIA.ORG | EDUTOPIA.ORG EDUTOPIA.ORG 19

AMYGDALA Responds to: interest, relevance, pleasure Classroom strategies: advertising, HERE/ME/NOW, personalization, multisensory THE GEORGE LUCAS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | | THE GEORGE LUCAS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION WHAT WORKS IN PUBLIC EDUCATION WHAT WORKS IN PUBLIC EDUCATION| | EDUTOPIA.ORG EDUTOPIA.ORG 21

A: POSITIVE EMOTIONAL STATE – OPENS AMYGDALA TO PFC = BETTER MEMORY RETENTION B: STRESSED STATE – NO PASSAGE TO PFC = LESS SHORT-TERM & LONG-TERM MEMORY Adapted from Hamman, et al., Cognitive Neuroscience 23 THE GEORGE LUCAS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | | THE GEORGE LUCAS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION THE GEORGE LUCAS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | WHAT WORKS IN PUBLIC EDUCATION WHAT WORKS IN PUBLIC EDUCATION WHAT WORKS IN PUBLIC EDUCATION| | EDUTOPIA.ORG | EDUTOPIA.ORG EDUTOPIA.ORG 23

PERSONALIZE EVERY 10 MINUTES Pause for destressing (boredom/frustration) with help, encouragement, or enrichment THE GEORGE LUCAS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | | THE GEORGE LUCAS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION WHAT WORKS IN PUBLIC EDUCATION WHAT WORKS IN PUBLIC EDUCATION| | EDUTOPIA.ORG EDUTOPIA.ORG 26

STRATEGY TO DECREASE STRESS THE GEORGE LUCAS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | | THE GEORGE LUCAS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION WHAT WORKS IN PUBLIC EDUCATION WHAT WORKS IN PUBLIC EDUCATION| | EDUTOPIA.ORG EDUTOPIA.ORG

PERSONALIZATION THE GEORGE LUCAS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | | THE GEORGE LUCAS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION WHAT WORKS IN PUBLIC EDUCATION WHAT WORKS IN PUBLIC EDUCATION| | EDUTOPIA.ORG EDUTOPIA.ORG 28

PERSONALIZATION strategy KID WATCHING Student: Mark Sport: Soccer Favorite food: Pizza Dog: Rex THE GEORGE LUCAS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | | THE GEORGE LUCAS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION WHAT WORKS IN PUBLIC EDUCATION WHAT WORKS IN PUBLIC EDUCATION| | EDUTOPIA.ORG EDUTOPIA.ORG 29

SYN-NAPS BALL TOSS REVIEW THE GEORGE LUCAS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | | THE GEORGE LUCAS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION WHAT WORKS IN PUBLIC EDUCATION WHAT WORKS IN PUBLIC EDUCATION| | EDUTOPIA.ORG EDUTOPIA.ORG 30

The amazing do-it-yourself brain surgery of 31 NEUROPLASTICITY THE GEORGE LUCAS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | | THE GEORGE LUCAS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION THE GEORGE LUCAS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | WHAT WORKS IN PUBLIC EDUCATION WHAT WORKS IN PUBLIC EDUCATION WHAT WORKS IN PUBLIC EDUCATION| | EDUTOPIA.ORG | EDUTOPIA.ORG EDUTOPIA.ORG 31

STRATEGY ANALOGIES WITH SOMETHING STUDENT PICKS FROM BAG OF SURPRISE ITEMS “MY BRAIN IS LIKE THIS LITTLE TREE, IT GROWS MORE BRANCHES WHEN I CONNECT NEW IDEAS TO THINGS I ALREADY KNOW.” 33 THE GEORGE LUCAS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | | THE GEORGE LUCAS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION THE GEORGE LUCAS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | WHAT WORKS IN PUBLIC EDUCATION WHAT WORKS IN PUBLIC EDUCATION WHAT WORKS IN PUBLIC EDUCATION| | EDUTOPIA.ORG | EDUTOPIA.ORG EDUTOPIA.ORG 33

Thank you for sharing your time with me — and for caring about the students you teach. “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” —Margaret Mead 34 THE GEORGE LUCAS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | | THE GEORGE LUCAS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION THE GEORGE LUCAS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | WHAT WORKS IN PUBLIC EDUCATION WHAT WORKS IN PUBLIC EDUCATION WHAT WORKS IN PUBLIC EDUCATION| | EDUTOPIA.ORG | EDUTOPIA.ORG EDUTOPIA.ORG 34

Q&A Please use the Questions pane on the right to submit any questions you may have. We will choose the most common questions to address. For all unanswered questions, we encourage you to continue the discussion online at edutopia.org/webinar- discussion-april-2009. THE GEORGE LUCAS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | | THE GEORGE LUCAS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION WHAT WORKS IN PUBLIC EDUCATION WHAT WORKS IN PUBLIC EDUCATION| | EDUTOPIA.ORG EDUTOPIA.ORG 35

Contact Information To contact or find out more about Dr. Judy Willis, visit RADTeach.com For articles, book chapters, and upcoming presentations To continue the discussion online, visit edutopia.org/webinar-discussion-april-2009 THE GEORGE LUCAS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | | THE GEORGE LUCAS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION WHAT WORKS IN PUBLIC EDUCATION WHAT WORKS IN PUBLIC EDUCATION| | EDUTOPIA.ORG EDUTOPIA.ORG 36

Thank You for Attending Let us know what you think by filling out the survey. If you know other educators who would like to be a part of Edutopia, refer them to edutopia.org/join. Stay tuned for our upcoming webinar in June about the Digital Generation. THE GEORGE LUCAS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | | THE GEORGE LUCAS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION WHAT WORKS IN PUBLIC EDUCATION WHAT WORKS IN PUBLIC EDUCATION| | EDUTOPIA.ORG EDUTOPIA.ORG 37

April 9, 2009 Edutopia webinar: "How the Brain Learns Best: Strategies to Make Learning Stick"

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