By: Alvaro Fernandez
Roundup of interesting news in this emerging field:
1) Brain Health Leaders Team Up to Prevent Crashes.
2) Adults Improve Critical Professional and Personal Skills Through New Cognitive Training Program.
3) Nature Neuroscience Podcast and London Taxi Drivers.
4) What Have You Changed Your Mind About, lately?.
5) The 2008 Mind & Life Summer Research Institute starts accepting applications.
6) The Mind & Life Institute has announced the 2007 Francisco J. Varela Research Award Recipients. Read the rest of this entry »
By: Alvaro Fernandez
(Thanks for the lead, Tom!)Â
David Brooks writes a great column (requires subscription) in the NYT titled A Critique of Pure Reason. He expands the usual restricted understanding of “education” to incorporate a wider sense of “learning”, by discussingÂ
1. Where
Each of us has one and same brain, for school (or work) and for “real” life. Labels such as “formal” or “informal” learning are quite irrelevant from a neural development point of view. What hapens at home is as important as what happens in school.    Â
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“They will understand that schools filled with students who can’t control their impulses, who can’t focus their attention and who can’t regulate their emotions will not succeed, no matter how many reforms are made by governors, superintendents or presidents.”
Skills in that list, that usually don’t get explicit attention, and they should, since they are both critical and trainable:
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