International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Volume 5, Number 1, January 2011
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Lighting Up The Mind: Transforming Learning Through The Applied Scholarship of Cognitive Neuroscience
"I am as sick of boring presentations as you are" admitted
Medina (2008, p. 93), explaining how the typical academic lecture embodies
the antithesis of scholarly, brain-rich teaching and learning. In contrast
to what Kohn (1999, p. 218) decried as the "mind numbing"
monotony of even the most well intended academic monologues, Medina
explained that brains retain lessons learned through concrete experiences
with emotionally cogent and relevant stimuli. Are such research-based
insights the...
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Dan GlisczinskiUniversity of Minnesota Duluth
Duluth, Minnesota, USA
dglisczi@d.umn.edu
Hello colleagues. Thanks for reading this essay. I'm Dan Glisczinski, and I'm convinced we educators have an amazing profession working together with students to construct understanding. Since earning degrees in English, teaching, and education policy from St. John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota and the University of Minnesota, I've worked as a wilderness educator, high school teacher, middle school teacher, elementary school principal, and college faculty. I'm presently an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota Duluth, where I teach education psychology, technology, and policy with undergraduates and graduate students. I get excited about studying transformative learning experiences, as these expand our understandings of life's possibilities and purposes.