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Regarding Science Education	Regarding Brain Incorporated Learning	Regarding Learning how to Learn

The Great Ideas of Science	Having fun in class? What does neuroscience say about this?	An Education and Child Development Site for Parents, Parenting & Education Resource
The Science Students Need to Know	Cover the material, or teach our students to THINK ?	The Inverse Power of Praise
Restoring Science to Science Education	Is our student saying: "I'm Lost!" ?	What is "Vesting"?
What Every Student Should Know about the Environment	A Fresh Look At Brain Based Education by Eric Jensen	Childhood Environment: Today vs Yesterday
Myth of The Scientific Method	Brain Diet & Rewards by Eric Jensen's Brighter Brain Bulletin	Self Determination Theory An Approach to Human Motivation and Personality
National Science Teachers Association Position Statement on Science Education for Middle Level Students	David Byrne & Daniel Levitin, The singer/songwriter and the neuroscientist meet up to discuss music.	This is NOT like my old science class!
National Science Teacher Association Position Statement on Parent Involvement	Neurotransmitters Defined	hOME wORk MADE eASiER
National Science Teacher Association Position Statement on Assessment	Cognitive Development Stages	The Other Three Rs
National Science Teacher Association Position Statements all issues	9 Principles of the Mind	Using Rewards & Praise
A Word About the Scientific Method	Cognitive Styles	Learning, Who's Job Is It?
Allergies Nothing to Sneeze At	Myth of Pink and Blue Brains	Compliant vs Engaged Learning
Constructivism Defined	The Framing Effect	Using Humor to Enhance Climate and Promote Retention
Inquiry Defined	What causes ADHD, Myths & Facts	Our Student's Future
Meaningful Homework		Even Geniuses Work Hard

This past February 2009, Applied Cognitive Psychology of Wiley InterScience published Jackie Andrade's findings about doodling. With a group of 40 people, she tested the impact of doodling on concentration and memory. Participants were asked to listen to a boring telephone message with names of people as well as some irrelevant information. The doodling group was given paper with shapes -- alternating rows of squares and circles -- and the control group was given lined paper. The doodlers doodled, the control group didn't. In the end, the doodlers were found to have 29% better recall of the names than the non-doodlers.
Citation: "What does doodling do?" By Jackie Andrade. Applied Cognitive Psychology, Vol. 23, No. 3, Feb. 26, 2009.

For more on doodling:

Read/hear NPR Morning Edition story on Doodling
Read Andrade's paper, What does Doodling Do?
See also: Sketchy Brain Booster

See also, links above such as Nature of Instruction and Brain Based Learning

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