Finding a Voice: Perspectives on Language Acquisition
How Do We Learn Language? Most new moms and dads know a lot about language acquisition because they witness it first-hand. They can tell you that babies start to babble around six to ten months of age,...
View ArticleThe Brains Wiring!
Ever wondered what the brains wiring looked like? Well now you can see! The world’s most detailed scan of the brain’s internal wiring has been produced by scientists at Cardiff University. The article...
View ArticleUnderstanding the Brain for Better Policy and Practices
Recent dramatic advances in cognitive neuroscience are explaining educational problems that have long mystified educators. Expect the process to escalate. One serious emerging problem in this otherwise...
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The Evolution of Language
What is the link between language and learning? While exploring these issues, fundamental questions arise that have far-reaching effects for the classroom and beyond. The most fundamental mechanism by...
View ArticleWhen You Don’t Understand the Brains You’re Trying to Teach
Most beginning teachers quickly discover that they don’t completely understand all the curricular material they’re expected to teach, and many of the noteworthy events the mass media constantly report....
View ArticleKeep it moving….
For years we at Posit Science have stressed our brain training exercises and the best way to keep mentally fit. Yet, its not the only thing we have stressed. Physical Exercise and a good diet are also...
View ArticleLearning to Write: One More Step From Language to Literacy
Many states have adopted content standards for language arts curricula in the early elementary grades that emphasize the importance of oral language skills in development of reading and writing. A...
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Brain Evolution: Expanding Our Minds
The irony of the theory of evolution is that evolution’s spectacular success in creating complex biological systems was historically the reason that this theory was so difficult to accept. It is...
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Embryological Development
In the Beginning All human beings begin life as a fertilized egg, called a zygote, which is a single cell about one-fifth the size of the period at the end of this sentence. By adulthood, the human...
View ArticleYour brain and New Years resolutions…the fight begins!
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View ArticleThe Purpose and Nature of Language
Schools teach students how to read and write, but not what reading and writing are — and what something is differs from how one does it. Spoken language emerges effortlessly in children. They’re so...
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The Impact of Contact Sports
Hundreds, if not thousands, of times a year a young athlete takes a hard blow to the head in the course of a high school, college, or an amateur sporting event. When this occurs, how do trainers and...
View ArticleAutism in the Classroom
What are some tips and strategies for helping students with autism achieve their fullest potential? And how can teachers cultivate the best learning environment in their classrooms? Explore these and...
View ArticleIs It Just Me, Or Is It Scary In Here? An Insider’s View On Anxiety Disorders
Fear is normally a healthy emotion that helps keep us from danger, but for some people it becomes an unmanageable force that consumes their every waking hour. I know because it happened to me when I...
View ArticleCan Music Education Enhance Brain Functioning and Academic Learning?
Echoing Mozart: Discovering a Link between the Brain and Music When Gordon Shaw and Frances Rauscher published the results of their study on the relationship between music and spatial task performance...
View ArticleGifted Students
Link to Education Connection Gifted students are not necessarily those who bring home the best report cards, but may well be the students at the back of the classroom whose abilities go unnoticed. Find...
View ArticleInside the Minds of Animals
Clever Hans As the story is told, sometime late in the first decade of the twentieth century, a retired German mathematics teacher named Wilhelm von Osten discovered an odd thing about his horse. He...
View ArticleMental Illness at the Movies
What Draws Us To Films About Mental Illness? There is, arguably, something at stake in a movie about mental illness that is hard to find elsewhere, something maybe best described as identity itself....
View ArticleThe Emotional Brain
Find out what goes on to create human perception and experiences of emotion — and why? Emotions as they are experienced can be broken into three categories: primary emotions, secondary emotions, and...
View ArticleMultiple Intelligences in the Classroom
Learn more about Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences as it applies to education. This article explores an important part of implementing Gardner’s theory in the classroom: assessing students’...
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