Introduction
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How do emotions shape our future behaviors?
Past experiences and how we responded to them shapes our learning; motivation of a reward or penalty
How can lessons directly relate to emotions?
By making jokes directly related to the lesson and creating emotional arousal by doing so
What is educational neuroscience?
Attempts to fill the gap between cognitive mechanisms, emotional processing, and learning/memory by using neuroscience
Why do lesioned patients have a harder time learning?
Lesions in the VMPFC makes participants lack an SCR and will never gravitate towards a more beneficial decision. You need emotional arousal to learn
How can a classroom be managed?
Create a safe and comfortable environment
What is social neuroscience?
Combining social psychology with neuroscience basis
Skilled intuition can be ______ or ______
Conscious or subconcsious
List the three overall applications
1.) Foster an emotional connection to the material
2.) Encourage development of academic/skilled intuition
3.) Mange classroom in emotional/social factors
What is skilled intuition?
Ability to use emotions to constructively make decisions
How does skilled intuition relate to the Iowa gambling task?
SCR before consciously realizing benefits/risk of each deck: requires skilled intuition to subconsciously lean participants towards the good deck
The goal is to incorporate subtle, emotional cues to navigate a learning environment (related posters to a class on the wall)
What is a neuromyth? What is an example of one?
Overall, what are the 5 research conclusions?
1.) Emotions drive learning
2.) Without emotion, learning is almost impossible
3.) Skilled intuition can be subconscious or conscious
4.) Emotions shape our future behaviors
5.) Emotional arousal should be directly related to the learning at hand
How can an emotional connection to the material be fostered?
1.) choosing own topic for a project
2.) giving positive responses
3.) giving students a feeling of ownership (think of Gee's grading options)
4.) Relate to every-day life: give real life examples
5.) Having students practice open-ended questions and foster creativity
6.) Allow discovery and engagement