As education continues to evolve, adding in new trends, technologies, standards, and 21st century thinking habits, there is one constant that doesn’t change.
The human brain.
But neuroscience isn’t exactly accessible to most educators, rarely published, and when it is, it’s often full of odd phrasing and intimidating jargon. Worse, there seems to be a disconnect between the dry science of neurology, and the need teachers have for relevant tools, resources, and strategies in the classroom.
Via John Evans, Miloš Bajčetić
The Neuroscience of Learning: 41 terms every teacher should know.... As well as trainers and instructional designers ... Here are my top 17:
- Affective filter
- Cognition
- Dopamine
- Executive Functions
- Hippocampus
- Limbic System
- Long-Term Memory
- Metacognition
- Neuronal Circuits
- Neuroplasticity
- Numeracy
- Patterning
- Prediction
- Prefrontal Cortex
- Rote Memory
- Serotonin
- Short-Term Memory (working memory)
Don't forget to take care of your brain !