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Thursday, February 17, 2011
Brain and Learning Conference in San Francisco, 02/2011
This conference has been great! It has opened my eyes especially about the facts that our young students are still molding their culture and we, as educators, have the obligation and opportunity to contribute to this process. All researchers affirm that technological games and videos give our young students smart tools to work with, clear goals to achieve, training in problem solving, and feed-back on their performance, among other skills. The problem is that electronic games and activities don't develop feelings of empathy on the young student. Researchers suggest that we, as educators, play an important role in creating ways in which today's student learn to develop feelings of compassion because it is only by feeling compassion towards the human condition that today's student will recognize the importance of contributing to making a better world. In addition, it is only through feelings of compassion that the young woman or man feels identified with others at the same time s/he creates a concept of the "self".
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Luz,
ReplyDeleteThat is true. I saw another study that someone posted on the SCSU Announce about kids these days not knowing enough how to show empathy. However, from what Larry Rosen said this morning, studies of social networking show that kids have what he called "virtual empathy," So I guess, the matter is quite complex.
Another thing that was said in our afternoon session on Memory and Retention was that Retrieval Practice results in greater retention than the popular strategy known as "concept mapping." I'd like to know more about that!
Lalita