{"id":2698,"date":"2008-11-03T12:55:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-03T12:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2008\/11\/03\/i-like-the-blog-though-its-all-too-simplistic\/"},"modified":"2008-11-03T12:55:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-03T12:55:00","slug":"i-like-the-blog-though-its-all-too-simplistic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2008\/11\/03\/i-like-the-blog-though-its-all-too-simplistic\/","title":{"rendered":"I like the blog, though it’s all too simplistic"},"content":{"rendered":"
Rule #1: Exercise – Exercise boosts brain power.<\/a>
\nRule #2: Evolution\/Survival – The human brain evolved, too.<\/a>
\nRule #3: Wiring – Every brain is wired differently.<\/a>
\nRule #4: Attention – We don’t pay attention to boring things.<\/a>
\nRule #5: Short-Term Memory – Repeat to remember.<\/a>
\nRule #6: Long-Term Memory – Remember to repeat.<\/a>
\nRule #7: Sleep – Sleep well, think well.<\/a>
\nRule #8: Stress – Stressed brains don’t learn the same way.<\/a>
\nRule #9: Sensory Integration – Stimulate more of the senses.<\/a>
\nRule #10: Vision – Vision trumps all other senses.<\/a>
\nRule #11: Gender – Male and female brains are different.<\/a>
\nRule #12: Exploration – We are powerful and natural explorers.<\/a><\/div>\n

“How do we learn? What exactly do sleep and stress do to our brains? Why is multi-tasking a myth? Why is it so easy to forget\u2014and so important to repeat new knowledge? Is it true that men and women have different brains?”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Following links from a TED Talk last week, I came across an interesting brain-hacking website for the book Brain Rules: Principles for Surviving and Thriving At Work, Home, and School<\/a>, by John Medina<\/a>, a developmental molecular biologist and research consultant and director of the Brain Center for Applied Learning Research at Seattle Pacific University. What little I’ve read<\/a> so far has been interesting<\/a> and nicely bolsters some of my own inexpertly cobbled together theories on memory and learning. (Though nothing beats the annuals, journals and articles I regularly hunt down and devour. Science is yummy.) There’s twelve rules in all, and each rule has a corresponding tutorial page on the site that’s meant to reinforce the concepts in the books. <\/p>\n

They, of course, recommend reading the chapters first, but this is the internet! Onward video!<\/p>\n

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Rule #1: Exercise – Exercise boosts brain power. Rule #2: Evolution\/Survival – The human brain evolved, too. Rule #3: Wiring – Every brain is wired differently. Rule #4: Attention – We don’t pay attention to boring things. Rule #5: Short-Term Memory – Repeat to remember. Rule #6: Long-Term Memory – Remember to repeat. Rule #7: … Continue reading “I like the blog, though it’s all too simplistic”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[111,196],"class_list":["post-2698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-brain-washing","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}