Brain Gym or Not??
Posted by Jamin Lietze on April 28, 2008
The following link on Brain Gym was written by Ewan McIntosh from Scotland.
http://edu.blogs.com/edublogs/2008/04/brain-gym-was-i.html
It is definitely worth a read so I have posted about it quickly to bring it to your attention (if you haven’t read it already).
Check out the videos (Part 1 + 2) in my Vodpod collection on the left side of this blog (note on Ewan’s page he shares Part 1 only.)
What do you think? Have you found enough evidence to say it improves learning?
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April 28th, 2008 at 10:30 am
So are you back in NZ?
I think things work in a classroom if the teacher believes they will- for better or worse. I used to do brain gym and had the kids believing that it was good for them and made them smarter- so it worked they felt smarter- not a bad thing.
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May 18th, 2008 at 10:20 pm
Hi Allanah
That’s an interesting thought. I can see some truth in what your saying. I too have done some Brain Gym and although the proposed results are hard to measure, we definitely had fun together and it was a nice break between lessons :+)
I do believe (and I’m sure you agree) that it is good for us to critically reflect on our teaching and ask some of the harder questions like: “Does research back my approaches to teaching?”
Thanks for commenting
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