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Attending to Attention and Understanding Understanding
Jeff [email protected]
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What is attention?What is understanding?
How do these relate to teaching and learning?
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The Brain
Neurons: 100 billion (It would take you 5000 years to count them, 1 per second, 16 hours a day.)
Synapses: Average of 10,000 per cell = 1,000,000,000,000,000 (It would take you 50 million years to count them all.)
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Learning about Neuroplasticity
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Attention
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We Live in a World of Information
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How can we help students attend?
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1. We attend to novelty.
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The mystery here: why did my drinking upside down make such an impression?
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How can we integrate novelty in instruction?
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2. We attend when we predict.
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How can we integrate prediction in instruction?
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3. We attend to our senses, especially touch and vision.
• Let’s say I want to teach you about the brain.
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The Limbic System
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The Prefrontal Cortex
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How can we integrate multiple senses in instruction?
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4. We attend to sound (music and poetry)
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How can we integrate music in instruction?
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5. Attention cues work together: Multiple types of sensory data, combined with mystery, yield
pleasure and attention.
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How can we integrate multiple attention cues at once in instruction?
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6. We attend to information that has personal relevance
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Stroop Test
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Stroop Test
Read the word of the ones without boxes, ink color of the one’s with.
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How can we make core content personally relevant?
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7. We attend to community
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How can we strengthen the community in out classes ?
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8. We can be taught to attend to our own thinking (metacognition).
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Quote from a 7th grader:
• “I imagine neurons making connections in my brain when I study. I feel like I'm changing my brain when I learn something, understand it, and review it.”
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How can we help students become metacognitive?
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9. Emotion mediates what we attend to and how we attend.
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Power of optimism: positive emotions help the brain learn more deeply
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How can we create a positiveemotional environment in our classes?
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Understanding
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“Learning takes place through the active behavior of the student: it is what he does, not what the teacher
does.”Ralph W. Tyler, 1949
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Quote from a 7th grader:
• “If I use my prefrontal cortex to mentally manipulate what I learn, my dendrites and synapses grow, and I will own that learning for a long, long time. I won't have to learn fractions all over again each year.”
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Teaching is the art of changing the brain.
Students’ brains.(Not teachers’)
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