Brain Research and Teaching

December 21, 2009

This article from the New York Times, Studying Young Minds, And How to Teach Them gets me so excited about what we will learn about learning from brain-based research. The idea that we can target skills when we know that students’ brains are best ready to learn them could have such huge impacts on how we teach. I’m adding these two books to my wishlist to investigate further:

The Number Sense and Reading in the Brain by Stanislas Dehaene

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