Kathie Nunley's Educator's Newsletter
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Dr Kathie Nunley's Educator's Newsletter
---mid-April '11 Edition--- (current subscribers: 21,340)
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--------SECTION ONE: TEACHING TIPS ------
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TEACHER TIP # 1:When 2 students demonstrate they can't work
together and must move, I have them roll a big pair of red dice -
lowest number has to move and tranquility is restored to the table.
no name, Workshop Participant, Toronto, ON
TEACHER TIP # 2: I have an "Electronicator Box" in the front of the
room that holds ALL cell phones - keeping them safe but out of busy
hands during lessons. no name, Workshop participant, Toronto, ON.
Send your favorite teaching tip to me at Kathie@brains.org
Watch for more tips via Twitter: http://twitter.com/
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------SECTION TWO: HOT TOPICS in Neuro & Educational Psychology------
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HOT TOPIC # 1: There has been much research on how bilingual visual word
recognition is handled in terms of lexical access in the brain. Most research
has shown that access is not language selective. However, until now, not
much has been studied on the lexical access for auditory word recognition.
It turns out that listening to a second language is in fact, influenced by the
knowledge of your first language. When attempting to recognize homophones,
bilingual listeners recognized any that were common to both their languages
much slower than monolingual listeners. So lexical access in listening, is
not language specific,in bilingual individuals.
Lagrou, E. et al. (2010). Knowledge of a second language influences auditory
word recognition in the native language. Journal of Experimental Psychology:
Learning, Memory, and Cognition, April 18t issue (No Pagination, preview)
HOT TOPIC #2: Good news for those of us looking to shore-up our memory
function as we get older - Older adults with higher levels of cardiorespiratory
fitness maintain larger hippocampus volumes as we age. This results in more
accurate and faster memory retrieval and less forgetting. What is not yet
known is whether or not, simply improving fitness in older adults will lead
to improvements in failing memory systems. But at least we can see a
path for preservation!
Szabo, A. et al. (2011). Cardiorespiratory fitness, hippocampal volume,
and frequency of forgetting in older adults. Neuropsychology, April 18
issue, preview, no page specified.
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---SECTION THREE: WEB UPDATES ---
BRAINS.ORG & HELP4TEACHERS.COM
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-----SECTION FOUR: KATHIE'S EMAIL
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I was looking for the article about Hot Topic #2 in the last newsletter and
can’t find it on any website. Can you provide me a website to look at?
Thanks, Keri Peterson, South Middle School.
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Keri, It's in the upcoming issue of "Neuropsychology" (which is probably
out by now). Unless your school subscribes to the journal, you'll probably
have to ask your library to secure it through inter-library loan or you should
be able to find it at any college / university library.
Best, Kathie.
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------SECTION FIVE: WORKSHOPS / SCHEDULE / MISC CHAT------
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Happy Spring, Happy Easter, Happy Passover, Happy any other spring
event you may be celebrating this month........ The important part is
"Happy". It's so beautiful and uplifting to watch the buds open on the
lilac bushes and the birds diligently gathering grasses for their nests
and the sun rising now before my alarm goes off! I hope you're enjoying
the new season too.
I want to thank the teachers in Ontario Canada last week for making me
feel especially welcome as we worked on Layered Curriculum® training.
I'm looking forward to returning to the Toronto area again in a couple of
weeks to work with teachers at York Mills Collegiate.
New workshops are in the making for Missouri, Idaho, Michigan and Ontario,
and Quebec. As soon as things are confirmed, I post details on my calendar.
This school year's calendar is pretty much filled, but I do still have several
slots still open for fall of 2011 and am now booking for spring 2012 as well.
If you need a workshop hosted at your school or district, just send me an email.
As always, my best to you and yours,
Kathie
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