Learning and Development

Learning and the brain

Beginning in the brain: Pioneering the field of educational neuroscience

Article featuring: Bruno della Chiesa

What's the brain got to do with it?

Article featuring: Kurt Fischer

How education can change the brain

Summary and video featuring: Antonio Damasio

Skills and the brain grow together

Video featuring: Kurt Fischer

The flexible brain

Interview featuring: Kurt Fischer

Are people more than just their brains?

Video featuring: Kurt Fischer and Antonio Damasio

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Learning and language

If you can't see it, feel it, or taste it, how can you learn about it?

Article featuring: Paul Harris

Learning from talk

Interview featuring: Paul Harris

Listen to your mother

Article featuring: Barbara Alexander Pan, Judith Singer and Catherine Snow

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Learning by doing

Learning in museums

Article featuring: Shari Tishman

Critical exploration in the classroom

Article featuring: Eleanor Duckworth

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Providing support for healthy development

The good, the bad, and the tolerable: How different stress levels impact the developing brain

Article featuring: Jack Shonkoff

Secrets of successful after school programs: What research reveals

Article featuring: Harvard Family Research Project

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Reading and writing

Struggling to read: The rhythms and sounds of dyslexia

Article and audio featuring: Jenny Thomson

Rx for struggling readers

Article and video featuring: Catherine Snow

The reading wars are over

Abstract and link featuring: Catherine Snow

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Teaching for understanding

Connections, consequences, and understanding

Article featuring: Tina Grotzer

Origins of a framework for effective practice

Article featuring: Howard Gardner, David Perkins, and Vito Perrone

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Utilizing new and emerging technology

No child left out: Making school work for everyone

Article featuring: David Rose

Handheld computing

Video featuring: Chris Dede

Learning in a virtual world

Video featuring: Chris Dede

Teaching for understanding with technology

Article featuring: Stone Wiske

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