Brain uses minimum effort to look for key information in text

By analyzing brain activity, researchers found that the brain regulates its resource use and tries to identify the most essential information.

Okay so I’ve tried...

• Seesaw
• Aww
• Pear decks
• Jamboard

What about you?

And who is the brain you borrow to find out what they do? Or when you get stuck...

Mine is a super friendly, accommodating and tech savvy guy...🧠

And yep I have been a bit lazy...sending off quick emails for help!!! Multiple times...

However I read this and you should too!

https://medium.com/teachers-on-fire/we-need-to-use-our-own-brains-9e949d3d5fdd

Thanks:

We Need to Use Our Own Brains

Tim Cavey

Apr 27 · 5 min read

Have you struggled to turn off your “What if” switch?

Which part of your brain is switched off and which part takes over...

Check out this article... (we know about this wiring for stressful situations but revisiting how it works might help to free up our mental resources for more helpful ways of coping)

Helped me!!!! And note the writer...even she had to remind herself!!!

https://www.brainfacts.org/diseases-and-disorders/mental-health/2020/feeling-scared-and-anxious-during-the-covid19-pandemic-is-normal-heres-why-051420

brainfacts.org

This is a fasciniating U.S. public information initiative recommended in the free Coursera "Learning How to Learn" course.

brainfacts.org


For example, "Should Teachers Learn Neuroscience?"

Animated Explanation of Autism

This is a 5 min, simple, animated explanation of autism.

Do you speak limbic?

Check out this article....

Help, I Don’t Speak Limbic

How to talk to a teen when he’s “gone limbic." 

Posted Jan 18, 2017

https://www.psychologytoday.com/nz/blog/self-reg/201701/help-i-don-t-speak-limbic

Ruby Wax on mental health

Following on from Jo's earlier post ...

8 minutes of brutal honesty about the stigma of mental health challenges:

Can you beat that play-doh brain?