Cool Brain Research

What?

I chose Sam Wang who seems to be a rather public personality on the subject of the brain. He has numerous articles in the New York Post and other popular publications. The research is focuses on or at least discusses on his blog and in his publications are all very much for the main stream public. He has taken his research and made it applicable for the everyday man or women. I read one paper that put great emphasis on exercise and how much that can affect our brain. He also put a doubt on if Sudoku really was all that helpful in preventing Alzheimer's. I really appreciated his research and also found it easy to read which was helpful.

So What?

I think it is always helpful to be aware of our students minds and how they work. I feel like the act of physical exercise can help so much with memory and all around attention in the classroom. This research helps teachers to change their curriculum to better educate our students.

Now What?

This research fits perfectly into my core subject. Theater is all about memorization, i think having a physical warm up and helping the students to wake up their minds first is an excellent way to start class. Wang also discussed that it is difficult to focus on more than one thing at a time. That our brain in fact does have a end to the project it can be focusing on. I think that incorporating the after school show into the classroom will make the classroom work feel more applicable and then can create more emphasis on one thing instead of spreading it all our too thin.