Posts by Alice Dyer
Mastering Learning Series: The Brain and Stress
The Brain on Stress Numerous scientific newsletters and journals currently spotlight “how stress affects the brain.” Citing as well the “living laboratory” conditions provided by the ongoing pandemic (and the human struggle for equality) for just-in-time continued research. The reports are not good: stress can severely damage the human brain … However, absent is a…
Read MoreMastering Learning Series: The Healing Brain
Healing Brain This world pandemic has changed forever our perception and reality … laying down a wholly new neural network based on individual experiences. All of us … students, faculty, staff, corporate sponsors … for a time set aside those worker roles … renewing and strengthening our focus as parents, sons and daughters, brothers and…
Read MoreMastering Learning Series: Born to Learn
Born to Learn We are born to learn… and learn optimally for the lifetime! Consider these facts from neuroscience: The greatest number of human brain cells is recorded during infancy. Each human brain enters the world equipped to meet the challenges of an oncoming learning explosion. These early years, from infancy thru pre-teen, represent the…
Read MoreMastering Learning Series: Learning Foundations
Know Your Brain In this age of the New Science of Learning, exploring “how we learn” and “how we can learn better” begins and ends with the human brain. The more we know about the brain, the greater our chance of accessing its limitless potential. Our readers question: “Why do some people learn more easily…
Read MoreMastering Learning Series: Brain Secrets Revealed
Brain Secrets Revealed Your brain is distinctly unique to you, and only you! No one else has a brain like yours…and there will never be another like it! Each 3-lb brain is the product of its own individual life experience. From the moment you are born, your brain launches a lifelong process of change: pruning,…
Read MoreMastering Learning Series: The New Science of Learning
The New Science of Learning Mastering learning in the year 2020 is a completely different story from what you may, as yet, have experienced. With the advent of PET and MRI technology, scientists are able to “see” what happens as the brain learns. More has been discovered about brain learning activity during the last 10…
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