Purchase Solution

Educational Neuroscience: Article Analysis "Big Plans for Little Brains"

Not what you're looking for?

Ask Custom Question

Locate an article that investigates findings from cognitive and neuroscientific research. Provide a brief summary of the article and explain how the findings could be translated into what educators do in schools and classrooms. Do the findings support differentiated teaching and learning? Why or why not?

Article: "Big plans for little brains"

Experts in neuroscience, computing and education are coming together in a massive effort to put the way in which children are taught on a sounder scientific footing. Trisha Gura profiles the ambitious - some might say foolhardy - initiative.

NATURE|Vol 435|30 June 2005

Purchase this Solution
Solution Summary

The Educational Neuroscience article "Big plans for little brains" is summarized in 100 words. Its findings are verified by a second article identified and summarized.

Solution Preview

As you provide a brief summary of the article and explain how the findings could be translated into what educators do in schools and classrooms, the findings from this article support differentiated teaching and learning as brain activators. Here is one source:

Gura, T. (2005). Educational research: Big plans for little brains. Nature, 435(7046), 1156-1158.

The article shows how neuroscience is infused with educational theories to support instruction. For example, "the US National Science Foundation ...

Solution provided by:
Stacy Shaneyfelt, MA
Education
  • BS , Slippery Rock University
  • MA, Slippery Rock University
Recent Feedback
  • "thk u"
  • "Thank you. Posted one more.. if you are online pls help. "
  • "thk u"
  • "thk u"
  • "thnk you"
Purchase this Solution
Free BrainMass Quizzes
Reading Skills

What are some pre-requisites to teach reading? This quiz offers a brief description for a few literacy skils.

Academic Expert Training Quiz

This is the training quiz for Academic Expert applicants. Must be completed after reviewing the four Training videos.

Autism

Do you know all about autism? Find out with this quiz.

Infant Development

How much do you know about infant milestones? Find out with this quiz!

Infant Development 2

Continue to test your infant development knowledge with this quiz!

View More Free Quizzes
Related BrainMass Solutions

  • Personality and Psychological Functioning

    Guided by neuroscience findings suggested specific roles for certain areas of the brain. A team of psychological researchers at the University of Minnesota measured the size of several regions in over 100 healthy subject's brains.

  • Educational Neuroscience article

    451267 Educational Neuroscience: Article location Educational neuroscience is an exciting new discipline that brings together research from psychology, neuroscience, and pedagogy to help educators make the best curriculum, instructional, and assessment

  • Educational Applications for Neuroscience

    538869 Educational Applications for Neuroscience How do neuroscientific research findings and discoveries about how the brain learns support differentiation in the classroom?

  • Paleoanthropology and a study of the Brain

    Related Exhibits" are listed at the bottom of the screen for each of these topics. Exhibits' of the Anatomy. The topic is Big Brain Question 1. Is this a good exhibit to learned from the article the big brain.

  • Regression Assumptions

    Statistical practices of educational researchers: An analysis of their ANOVA, MANOVA, and ANCOVA analyses. Review of educational research, 68(3), 350-386. Loe, T. W., Ferrell, L., & Mansfield, P. (2000).

  • Obesity Studies

    The original bottle used by the team for the ecstasy experiments was empty, but analysis of the frozen brains of two animals that died during the study revealed they contained a metabolite of amphetamine.

  • Genetics Embryology and phenotype of Williams Syndrome

    Galaburda and Bellugi, Multi-Level Analysis of Cortical Neuroanatomy in Williams Syndrome.

  • same-sex schools

    As the article maintains, a hint against same-sex schools, "No neuroscientific data suggest that boy's brains are better suited to any given domain or subject or vice versa.

  • Trend Article Analyses

    450385 Trend Article Analysis Locate an article concerning a social and/or behavioral trend that impacts research in the field of psychology.

View More Related Solutions