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Title: Gain More Brain Power


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Gain More Brain Power
You never grow old until youve lost all your
marvels. -Merry Browne
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Contact Info
  • Donna Sawyer
  • North Carolina Department of Public Instruction
  • Instructional Technology Division, Resources
    Development and Evaluation
  • dsawyer_at_dpi.state.nc.us

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Handout
  • Shopping List
  • Online Interactive Notes
  • Kaleidoscope Poster
  • www.ncwiseowl.org/kscope

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Burning Question
  • How much forgetfulness is TOO much?
  • DONT WORRY occasional memory lapses
  • WORRY pattern of blanking
  • Dr. Barry Gordon of Johns Hopkins Memory Clinic
    says,
  • "Miss an exit on the highway once, that happens.
    Miss it five times and thats another story."

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Nutrition Exercise
  • HUNDREDS of studies prove that poor nutrition and
    lack of exercise lead to lower academic
    achievement.

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1. Exercise
  • Cross Laterals
  • Activates both brain hemispheres simultaneously
  • Stimulates alertness
  • Activates the same neural connections the brain
    uses to read, write, and compute math

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1. Exercise
  • Activates the release of BDNF, a neurotropic
    growth factor that enhances cognition
  • Has unlimited storage (motor memory)
  • Requires minimal review (98 of learning is
    through the body)
  • Reduces stress, levels emotions, improves memory
  • Feeds the brain glucose and oxygen which builds
    greater connections between neurons
  • Strengthens particular areas of the brain
  • Doubled neurons in brains of rats

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Resources
  • Energizers, NCPE4ME! (integrate movement with
    academic concepts)
  • Smart Moves Why Learning is not all in Your
    Head, by Carla Hannaford
  • Awaken Your Brain, by Donna Noland and Becky Ross
  • Action-Based Learning, by Jean Blaydes Madigan
  • Online Notes links take you directly to the
    resources

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2. Eat Right
  • Omega-3 Fatty Acids
  • Affect Mental speed and learning
  • Boost body metabolism
  • Increase IQ
  • Lessen early signs of Alzheimers
  • Result in smarter babies (from breast milk)

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Omega-3 Fatty Acids
  • Salmon (The coloring added to farm-raised salmon
    is toxic. Farm raised salmon should be gray in
    color.)
  • Fish oils
  • Flax seed (ground) 2 tablespoons a day for
    depression
  • Sardines
  • Bluefish
  • Herring
  • Mackerel
  • Tuna
  • Olive Oil

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Water
  • Promotes efficient thinking and focused attention
    (Irving, 1995)
  • Boosts metabolism
  • Fights against daytime fatigue
  • A mere 2 drop in body water causes fuzzy
    short-term memory and difficulty focusing.

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B Vitamins
  • Deficiency results in impaired memory, higher
    levels of anxiety, irritability, and depression
  • 800 mg. folate - pharmaceutical brand (associated
    with working memory and verbal fluency)

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B Vitamins
  • Folate, B12, B6
  • Improve memory performance in all age groups
  • Amount speed of information processing, verbal
    ability
  • www.ConsumerLab.com
  • Fatigued to Fantastic Daily Energy B Complex
  • Froogle.com www.nutricraze.com

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Foods High in B
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Aging Process
  • Aging causes the brain to lose its ability to
    protect itself from the abuse we give it every
    day.
  • Amyloid plaque (fibrous substance much like fur
    balls in the brain) plays a key role in
    Alzheimers disease.
  • Plaque builds up-- causes more oxidation
    inflammation --- kills off brain cells

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Aging Process
  • Oxidation and inflammation allow free radicals to
    attach themselves to cells.
  • Free radicals are highly active molecules that
    damage cells.
  • Brain cells often stop communicating with each
    other.

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Solution? Antioxidants
  • protect against free radicals and give fruits and
    vegetables their bright colors,
  • slow the oxidation process,
  • act as anti-inflammatory agents,
  • improve the communication between neurons, and
  • allow the brain to regenerate.

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Antioxidants
  • Blueberries (wild blueberries have more
    brain-saving bioflavonoids)
  • Raspberries
  • Blackberries
  • Other dark-skinned fruits
  • Curcumin, spice used in India, known for its
    anti-inflammatory effects and its protection
    against memory loss

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Bioflavonoids
  • Green tea (effectively combats degenerative
    brain diseases)
  • Black, green, and orange pekoe teas
  • Red wine
  • Gingko (It combats free radicals and promotes
    circulation to the tiny capillaries of the brain.
    Decreased blood flow to the brain is usually
    age-related.)

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Vitamin E
  • Doctors found that those who consumed the most
    vitamin E (from foods like nuts wheat germ)
    were almost 70 less likely to develop
    Alzheimers than those who consumed the least.
    (Journal of the American Medical Association)

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Nuts
  • Several large studies show a 30-50 lower risk of
    sudden cardiac death and cardiovascular disease
    in those who ate nuts several times a week.
  • Nuts are full of vitamin E, folic acid,
    potassium, fiber and arginine, amino acid
    (relaxes blood vessels and eases blood flow)

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Fruits
  • High in vitamin C
  • Help ward off the effects of cumulative stress
    (Stress kills brain cells!)

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Lunch
  • Dr. Daniel Amen
  • Eliminate all simple carbs at lunch (sugar,
    white bread, or other products made from white
    flour)
  • Greater focus
  • More energy

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Neurons Caffeine
  • Chemical communication between neurons sacs of
    chemicals, neurotransmitters, are released to
    move across the synapse, bump into the next
    neuron, and cause it to fire its own electrical
    impulse

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Neurons Caffeine
  • Neurotransmitters either speed up or slow down
    this communication process
  • Agonist speeds up
  • Antagonist slows down
  • Good days surplus of one of the agonists
  • Bad days too many antagonists

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Neurons Caffeine
  • Caffeine enters nervous system and acts like an
    agonistic neurotransmitter making messages move
    quicker between neurons
  • Homeostasis body seeks to restore balance
  • Neurons say, Why bother making this stuff?
    Shell dump another pot of coffee in tomorrow and
    well be off and running!
  • Neurons cease making their own supply!

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Neurons Caffeine
  • First fully grown population raised on chronic
    use of artificial neurotransmitters
  • Limited to U.S. - one of the few countries to
    allow soft drink industry to add caffeine
  • Mt. Dew in Canada

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Resources
  • Dr. Kathie Nunleys Articles for use in school
    newsletters (Caffeine, Brain Biology,
    Giftedness, Stress and Memory, Sleep Deprivation,
    and more)
  • http//help4teachers.com/articles.htm

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3. Sleep
  • Cells repair
  • Brain maintenance in full swing
  • Nerve cells branch to cement the days learning

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Sleep Needs
  • Middle and high school biological tendency to
    stay up late and get up late
  • Adult (33-45 years) 7 hours
  • 9-12 need 8.5 hours sleep
  • 6-8 need 10 hours sleep
  • 1-5 need 10.5 hours sleep
  • Preschoolers need 11 hours sleep
  • (Huffman, 1994)

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Sleep Deprivation
  • Irritability
  • Decreased attention span
  • Slower response time
  • Memory gaps
  • Impaired judgment
  • Fatigue

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Sleep Learning
  • It appears that different types of learning may
    be facilitated within the different types of
    sleep REM sleep is important to procedural
    memory formation of tasks such as typing and
    playing the piano.
  • (Chapter 6 Regain an Agile Brain)

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Resources
  • Youre Feeling Very Sleepy by Dr. Kathie F.
    Nunley
  • http//help4teachers.com/sleep.htm
  • Kaleidoscope - Parents Page
  • www.ncwiseowl.org/kscope/parents.html
  • Internet Safety

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4. Manage Stress
  • Stress kills brain cells.
  • Long-term and chronic stress shrinks the
    hippocampus, the memory center of the brain.
  • Learners in a state of fear or threat will always
    have a difficult time learning.

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4. Manage Stress
  • Chronic childhood stress creates permanent
    changes in the brains neurotransmitter levels.
  • In severe cases of trauma it takes dozens of
    successful opportunities to rewire the brain for
    new, more positive ways of thinking.

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HYPO
Fear Anger Aggression Fight or flight Hunger Thirs
t Water balance Body temperature Sex drive Eat,
kill, have sex.
Reptilian Brain Most primitive region of the
brain _at_Birth - fully functioning Controls
primitive      emotions
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AMY
Communicates with HYPO Present at birth
but Function develops during childhood
based on environmental cues, modeling,
parenting JOB Overrule Hypo
Amygdala Sophisticated emotions Love Jealo
usy Attraction Kindness Compassion Empathy
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Amy 2nd Voice
Hypo 1st Voice
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Student yells obscenity at you
  • HYPO (first voice) Perhaps the world would
    be a better place with one less child in it!
  • AMY (2nd voice) You wanted to be a teacher
    because you love children and you want to help
    them.

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Baby Thumbelina
  • Birthday Party - 5 years old
  • Prized Possession - a baby Thumbelina doll
  • Brother - 3 years old
  • Creepy Crawler Goo
  • Feet colored green
  • Mother intervenes, Hes only three. He loves
    you. He didnt mean to hurt your doll.

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Baby Thumbelina
  • If appropriate behavior other than aggression
    was modeled for you in your early years, the
    amygdalas voice is a strong one and will
    overrule the hypothalamus in most cases.
  • A Students Brain, by Kathie Nunley

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Hypothalamus
  • Hypo - more primitive
  • Survival situation - resort to primitive areas
  • Hypothalamus-driven Person
  • Tend to be male
  • Larger in males
  • Product of testosterone
  • Grew up in eat or be eaten world

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Reptilian Brain
  • when you make a decision in this state of mind,
    you are thinking with all the wisdom of a
    turtle.
  • (Nunley, page 45)

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In the Classroom
  • Erika, I am so angry right now that I do not
    feel comfortable discussing this. Can you please
    go sit down until I calm down enough and can
    think more clearly?

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In the Classroom
  • www.disciplinehelp.com

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Optimal Learning
  • Relaxed Alertness
  • Underperformance
  • Too little stress (sleep, apathy)
  • Too much stress (anxiety, distress)

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Resources
  • Teachleys Amazing Talking Brain
    http//www.ncwiseowl.org/kscope/TeacherHut/Teachle
    y/index.html
  • Kaleidoscopes Mood Pencils http//www.ncwiseowl.o
    rg/kscope/Moods/index.htm
  • Kaleidoscopes Hangout for Students
    http//www.ncwiseowl.org/kscope/students.html
  • The Trouble Terminator http//www.ncwiseowl.org/ks
    cope/techknowpark/Trouble/index.html
  • Kaleidoscopes Spa.Calm http//www.ncwiseowl.org/
    kscope/TeacherHut/TableofContents/PersnlNote.html
    spa

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5. Learn New Things
  • Neuroplasticity
  • You can create your brain from the input you
    get.
  • (Paula Tallal, co-director of the Center for
    Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience at Rutgers)

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Carol Dweck
  • My research shows that students who believe
    their intelligence is fixed (they have only so
    much and that's that) tend to worry about how
    smart they really are. Their motivation and
    engagement are tentative--when a task gets too
    hard, they lose interest and flee.

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Carol Dweck
  • But students who believe their intelligence can
    be developed get deeply involved in learning and
    remain engaged in the face of difficulty. We have
    shown in many studies that their engagement and
    intrinsic motivation is hardier.

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Peak Development
  • Regions of the cortex in peak development during
    various ages
  • Great opportunity to shape the brain
  • Do not close completely
  • Critical time periods - windows of opportunity
  • Parents and educators can have a great influence
    on development.

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Windows of Opportunity
  • Birth to Age 3 Vocabulary
  • Children in households rich in vocabulary and
    conversation before age 3 dedicate a large
    portion of the cortex to vocabulary and tend to
    be more successful readers.

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Windows of Opportunity
  • Birth to Age 4 Math and Logical Reasoning
  • Music stimulates the same region.

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Windows of Opportunity
  • Birth to Age 6 Gross Motor Development
  • Children need plenty of opportunities to move
    during this time period. Best baby gifts toys
    to buy involve large muscle movements.
  • (Sit and Spin)

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Windows of Opportunity
  • Before Age 10 Learn a Second Language
  • Simply hearing the second language, like playing
    tapes singing songs establishes pathways for
    later learning.

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The Brain and Reading Comprehension
  • How short-term, active, and long-term memory
    impact reading comprehension
  • All Kinds of Minds, Schools Attuned
  • www.allkindsofminds.org/Category.aspx?categoryID2

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Memory Trick
  • Stephen Scott
  • Mentored by a Millionaire
  • Master Strategies of Super Achievers

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Resources
  • Reflection Activities
  • http//www.ncwiseowl.org/kscope/TeacherHut/Tableof
    Contents/reflections/index.html
  • The Memory Booster www.ncwiseowl.org/kscope/Hoverc
    raft/MemoryBooster/index.htm
  • The Express Reactor www.ncwiseowl.org/kscope/Hove
    rcraft/XpressReactor/index.htm

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6. Kill ANTs
  • Automatic Negative Thoughts (Dr. Daniel Amen)
  • These daily, automatic, repetitive thought
    patterns can lie to us!
  • Repetition -- myelination -- fatty covering
    for neurons -- transmit electricity up to 10
    times faster than non-myelinated neurons

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Four Species of ANTs
  • Mind Reading
  • Fortune Telling
  • Always or Never Thinking
  • Guilt Beatings
  • What species do you have?

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Mind Reading
  • you know what the other person is thinking
  • (usually the worst)

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Fortune Telling
  • Predicting a bad outcome to a situation before it
    takes place
  • (Your mind makes happen what it sees.)

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Always or Never
  • You routinely think or use the words always,
    never, every time, everyone.

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Guilt Beatings
  • I should have. . .
  • Im bad because . . .
  • I wish I had . . .

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Today Matters, by John Maxwell
  • We over-exaggerate yesterday.
  • Define ourselves by past accomplishments
  • We overestimate tomorrow.
  • Ill start the diet on New Years Day.
  • We underestimate today.
  • Success is determined by your daily agenda.

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Resources
  • I Cant Burial Site
  • www.ncwiseowl.org/kscope/techknowpark/Dream/Burial
    Site.html

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7. Tap into Passion
  • 12th Graders
  • Perceptions of High School
  • U.S. Department of Education
  • National Center for Education Statistics
  • 2002

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Relevance
  • If we consider a task to be irrelevant,
    uninteresting or unimportant, how long will we
    stick with it?
  • When was the last time you had to work on
    something that you felt was not meaningful or
    worth your time?
  • How much (genuine) effort did you put into it?

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Strengths
  • In helping children overcome weaknesses, we tend
    to neglect to cultivate their strengths. Every
    child has strengths. They simply await
    discovery. Strengths keep kids afloat when they
    are struggling to overcome the effects of their
    weaknesses.

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Strengths
  • When a child has learning difficulties, the
    pursuit of a strength can go far to alleviate and
    prevent low self-esteem due to academic
    underachievement. (Dr. Mel Levine)

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Achievement
  • 25 ____ 25____ 50____
  • 25 IQ
  • 25 Experience and Opportunity
  • 50 Self-Esteem

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Affinities
  • Affinities are areas of knowledge toward which a
    child feels strong attachment.
  • It is critical that every child develop at least
    one area of intellectual passion that they
    sustain over time.
  • Affinities should evolve into domains of
    expertise.

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Expertise
  • Mastery in the area of an affinity allows the
    child to experience the intense satisfaction that
    comes with being a true scholar.
  • Strengths and affinities do not come forth and
    grow automatically.
  • Adults must work with students to help them find
    and sustain their strengths and affinities.

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  • http//www.ncwiseowl.org/kscope/techknowpark/Dream
    /index.html

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Learner Puzzle
  • file///Users/donnasawyer/Documents/Kaleidoscope/t
    echknowpark/Kiosk/profile_puzzle.html

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www.ncwiseowl.org/kscope
  • Questions?
  • Donna Sawyer
  • 910.814.4331
  • dsawyer_at_dpi.state.nc.us

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  • The end

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Meet Mark.
  • Incarcerated twice by the age of 17
  • Sent to juvenile detention center for drug
    dealing and other antisocial offenses
  • Suffered serious delays in reading, written
    output, spelling and math
  • The thought of writing elicited rage
  • Appeared not the least bit inclined to succeed at
    anything

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  • What would happen to Mark at your school?

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Attuning Process
  • Private sketchbook
  • Artistic talent and originality
  • Designing and building forts
  • Remarkable intuition in problem-solving,
    especially in the domain of construction
  • Community college in art and technology

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