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Reynold RedekoppSummaries and references od brain based research and technology
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- Enriching the Learning Environment:
- Includes a steady source of positive support;
- Provides a nutritious diet with enough protein, vitamins, minerals and calories;
- Stimulates all the senses (not necessarily at once)
- Has an atmosphere free of undue pressure and stress but suffused with a degree of pleasurable intensity;
- Presents a series of novel challenges that are neither too easy nor too difficult for the child at his or her stage of development;
- Allows social interaction for a significant percentage of activities;
- Promotes the development of a broad range of skills and interests: mental, physical, aesthetical, social and emotional;
- Gives the child an opportunity to choose many of his or her efforts and to modify them;
- Provides an enjoyable atmosphere that promotes exploration and the fun of learning;
- Allows the child to be an active participant rather than a passive observer.
Diamond M. & Hopson. J. (1989)
Magic trees of the mind
Dutton, New York
Marian Diamonds and her team of researchers at the University of California at Berkeley have been studying the impact of enriched environments on the brains of rats. Diamonds believes that enriched environments unmistakably influence the brain's growth and learning. An enriched environment for children Diamonds says:
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- No two children learn in the identical way.
- In the classroom we should teach children to think for themselves.
- One way is to group children so they are talking to each other, they are asking questions of each other, they are learning to be teachers. One of the most important concepts for a 5 year old to know is that he or she can teach because you have to understand something to teach it."
" No two children are alike. An enriched environment for one is not necessarily enriched for another. "
Marian Diamonds:
Professor of Neuroanatomy at Berkeley
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Caroline DuttonHow technology fits in with differentiated instruction. Good break down of brain research
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