CCK09 Building a brain

You would surely enjoy this Builds a brain in a supercomputer

Every neuron is different

Pattern of circuitry does not change

What are the implications of such a “brain” talking to our brain?

CCK09 This is Your Brain

This video lecture This is Your Brain talks about Dualism and Materialism.

Are you just a pack of neurons?

What is Dualism? What is Materialism?

The mind is what the brain does.

Physical objects can do certain things.  Machines can play chess.

Brain does not taste good, but…

Neuroscience – How the brain gives thoughts?

Neurons – Basic building of thoughts

Three types of neurons – sensor, motor, and inter neurons (do the thinking)

Neurons relate to one another chemically…

Enjoy.

You could compare our brain with the Android.

It could even sing.

What are the implications of these technology on our education, thinking and learning?

CCK09- Connectivism – Building a Circuit Diagram for the Brain

This Building a Circuit Diagram for the Brain provides a fantastic explanation about learning.

So, in learning, it involves neurons, synapse, circuits and stimulus.

These may be of interests to us:

Retention of learning

Generation of learning

Reversal of learning

Does this help in understanding human learning (at the neuronal or neural level)?

 

John

CCK09-What is new about Connectivism (rev1) 2009?

In The Recognition Factor by Stephen Downes

Knowledge is like recognition

Learning is like perception

the acquisition of new patterns of connectivity through experience

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Connectivism is new in that it is:

about the distribution of knowledge in the network and oneself (including our brain – your and my brain), and the solution lies in one’s brain. All problems and solutions are there in the brain – your brain if you want to solve the problem, and my brain if it is my problem and solution.  And what connectivism differs from other learning theories is that we could connect one’s brain to others’ “brains” that will lead to continuously improved and innovative solutions for me and the network in this digital age – networks including yourself with collective wisdom with emergent knowledge. 

This relates back to what connectivism is: Knowledge distributed, learning as networked process (i.e. forming connections), principles form base of all design.  And the three levels: Neural, Conceptual and External (people, information sources etc. (Siemens, 2008)

 

 

about choices:  The focus is on choice of connections and the network process, rather than just the outcome.  A person could choose amongst the connections and networks to suit and improve his or her learning.  See multiple choice in the other post in http://suifaijohnmak.wordpress.com. 

about and around the learner: education, learning is now related back to the learner, with teaching and/or facilitating as a support and network, technology as enabler.  You may even claim it as a wholely learner-centred approach to learning.  And the best way to learn relates back to the learner – individualised learning based on learning styles, intelligences (the mulitiple intelligences one has) and connections – network associated with, and his/her choice of support and technology.

Our Future Brain

Enjoy this Neurons and neuro-transmitters

Imagine each of us acts like a neuron and when we connect, communicate and interact with each other under the super-internet, what will our future brain – global network within our brain looks like?

The Lozanov Experiments – the left and right brain

During the 1950s and 1960s in Bulgaria, psychologist Georgi Lozanov conducted extensive research on the process by which people learn and permanently record information.  He was intrigued by examples of “superlearning” from around the world.

As his research progressed, Lozanov become interested in the idea that each of us actually has two brains, a right and a left hemisphere, and they perform different functions.

The left hemisphere is the logical, linear, practical brain.  It is responsible for reasoning, analysis and calculation.  It is the mathematical, verbal, sequential, pragmatic and skeptical side of the brain.  It is responsible for language and for processing facts and is concrete and straightforward.  It is the “no-nonsense” or engineering side of the brain.

The right hemisphere of the brain is very different.  It thinks in terms of pictures and stories.  It is holistic, dealing with all aspects of an idea or situation simultaneously.  The right hemisphere is intuitive, musical and creative.  It is the artistic, abstract and imaginative side of the brain.

The left brain seems to be stimulated by intense, logical, linear presentation of information.  The right brain seems to process information best in a state of relaxation.  What Lozanov discovered was that it was when both brains were working in together harmoniously that rapid learning took place.

Lozanov discovered that if you could put a person into a deep state of relaxation, into alphas (the relaxed or meditative state), and then present new information while gentle classical music played in the background, the right and left brains would synchronize and learning would take place at a rapid rate.

The work of Lozanov demonstrated that rapid learning is possible – not only for facts and information, but also for new behaviors and new mental habits.

Have you tried the playing of music while learning new tasks?  

I am wondering how one could leverage the use of  multimedia in Web 2.0 tools to enhance and accelerate learning under Connectivism.

Which mediamedia works best for your learning?