Today we host a very stimulating essay on the importance of problem-solving and encouraging complex game-playing for children’s complete “cognitive nutrition”. Enjoy!

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Children’s Complex Thinking

– By Tom O’Brien and Christine Wallach

Pop over to your neighborhood school and visit some classrooms. Is what’s happening cognitively nutritive? That is, does it satisfy present needs and provide nourishment for the future health and development of children’s thinking?

Or is it punitive, with little concern for present nourishment and future health and development?

The Genevan psychologist and researcher Hermina Sinclair said, Read the rest of this entry »

Quick reminder: The organizers of the conference Enhancing Cognition and Emotions for Learning – Learning & The Brain Conference that Caroline, Iwan and I attended in February (our review here) , are now putting together Learning & the Brain: Molding Minds. How to Shape the Developing Brain for Learning and Achievement. Cambridge, MA, April 28-30th 2007.

A clarification: the “Developing Brain” in that title refers to k12 students’ brains…but, of course, readers of this blog know that our brains never stop developing, no matter our age…

A great conference, especially for K12 educators interested in learning more about brain research.