The Brain and Learning

This week has been fascinating in terms of learning how learning works from the inside. I found a really interesting site that posts news and video segments that center around the brain and learning that I thought might be interesting for my classmates: http://brainandlearning.blogspot.com/ The segment about how we are easily swayed to think alike is worth the few minutes to watch.

Shirelle Stadel (http://aaaclub-learningfromeachother.blogspot.com/) suggested two fantastic sites that I found useful as well: http://blog.cathy-moore.com/ and http://www.iddblog.org/?p=475. These sites offered practical applications for the interesting information we are learning. I suppose, to use this week's jargon, that the sites are helping me to encode the learning in a variety of ways to make retrieval easier.