Neuroscience: Implications for Education

“This report highlights advances in neuroscience with potential implications for education and lifelong learning. The report authors, including neuroscientists, cognitive psychologists and education specialists, agree that if applied properly, the impacts of neuroscience could be highly beneficial in schools and beyond.  The report argues that our growing understanding of how we learn should play a much greater role in education policy and should also feature in teacher training. The report also discusses the challenges and limitations of applying neuroscience in the classroom and in learning environments throughout life.”  – from The Royal Society website

http://royalsociety.org/policy/reports/brainwaves2/.

The Key to Health, Wealth and Success: Self-Control

“Self-control may be the secret to success, according to a persuasive new study that followed 1,000 children from birth to age 32: children who showed early signs of self-mastery were not only less likely to have developed addictions or committed a crime by adulthood, but were also healthier and wealthier than their more impulsive peers.” – Globe and Mail

 

The Key to Health, Wealth and Success: Self-Control – TIME Healthland.

Information on Attention and Meditation

There is more and more discussion and research on the benefits on meditation on improving attention.  I thought I would post a few of these links so you can take a look at what is being said in the public domain.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/139206

http://www.livescience.com/health/070507_mental_training.html

http://bipolarblast.wordpress.com/2008/06/19/meditation-and-neuroplasticity/

http://www.mindsite.com/blog/tag/Neuroplasticity/1

http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S155083070500306X

Enjoy some of these articles and blogs.