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The Learning Cycle: Insights for Faithful Teaching from Neuroscience and the Social Sciences is unavailable, but you can change that!

How teachers teach is not necessarily how learners learn. Educators generally focus on content delivery. But much of the learning process involves affective and behavioral factors that shape learners’ outcomes. Veteran educators Muriel and Duane Elmer provide a holistic model for how learning takes place. Their learning cycle moves beyond mere recall of information to helping learners value and...

Any part of the brain that is thinking requires more oxygen, which is carried to the brain cells by hemoglobin.… [During the fMRI] the computer colors in the brain regions receiving more oxygenated blood and locates the activated brain region to within one centimeter (half inch).8 According to Sousa, neurons are the “functioning core of the brain.” They carry electrical impulses along the neuro pathways (axons) to branch-like structures (dendrites), which then transmit the impulses across a space
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