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Exercise Boosts Brain Power
FCS FLASH ISSUE Number 90:
September 30, 2008
October 5: World Wide:
Intergeneration Day
October 10-12: San Ramon:
FCS Program Plan Revision
Retreat
October 11: Diamond Bar:
Interior Design:
Student Career Day
October 25: Monterey: Costume
Society of America
Distressed Costumes Workshop
November 1 - April 5: San
Francisco:
Yves Saint Laurent Exhibit
November 5-8: Chicago, IL:
ITAA Annual Meeting: Evolving
Patterns
November 13: Downey:
Explore the World of Organic
Foods
November 21-25: National Harbor,
MD:
Gerontological Society of
America Annual Conference
December 4-6: Charlotte, NC:
ACTE Convention & Career Expo
March 26-28: Sacramento:
CAEYC Conference
California
Association for the Education of
Young Children
FCS New Postings
Review The American Institute of
Architects, AIA,
Survey of Home Design Trends. It reflects on the downside in
the housing market and the
growing interest in green
design. Roger Gerard, Shasta
College takes a closer look at
the airline industry’s
inhospitable practice of “
bumping” passengers on oversold
flights... find out how you
can hang on to your seat. Follow
this
link
to the Environmental
Protection Agency’s (EPA) Aging
Initiative Website for a wealth
of information about the EPA’s
efforts to protect the
environmental health of older
adults. Finally, read what Marla
Dickerson, LA Times ,
writes about the downturn in the
economy and how it’s affecting
retirement timetables.
FCS FLASH : Brain Rules
Each
year we select an underlying
theme for the FCS FLASH to bring
you current and valuable
information/activities you can
immediately use in your
classroom, as well as research
information and links to help
you develop your courses more
effectively. During the last few
years, our themes included using
technology to enhance learning,
applying Seven Principles
for Good Practice in
Undergraduate Education ,
identifying Student Learning
Outcomes, and using classroom
assessment techniques for better
instruction. This year we will
link you to new research
information about the brain and
strategies to help students
learn easier and faster in the
classroom and excel in the
workplace. Our primary source
will be John Medina’s Brain
Rules , however we will
include many additional and
timely resources for you to
review.
We begin with Medina’s first
brain principle: If you want to
get stronger and smarter,
exercise! Researchers have found
that the
mental effects of exercise are
far more profound and complex
than they once believed.
Scientists have actually coaxed
the human brain into growing new
nerve cells- simply by putting
subjects on a three-month
aerobic workout regimen.
Exercise benefits the brain in
two major ways: it helps
generate new brain cells, and it
strengthens the connections
between those cells. Moreover,
the positive impacts of exercise
on the brain come quickly, and
in under an hour. If you want
your students to come to class
with their synapses firing more
efficiently, encourage them to
exercise.
Try this:
Ask students
how learning to get the most out
of their brain would help them.
Explain that you are
going to share some brain
strategies to help them thrive
at school, at work and at home.
Distribute the student
guide,
Exercise Boosts Brain Power, attached.
Review this 11 PP slide
presentation,
Exercise Boosts Brain Power, and have students
answer the questions on
their guides as you go through
the slides.
Discuss how
students plan to use this
information to help them learn
better and faster.
Exercise can be used as a
medicine -- a 'smart pill,' if
you will...
John Ratey, Professor of
Psychiatry, Harvard, author of
Spark: The Revolutionary New
Science of Exercise and the
Brain
This newsletter was brought to
you by a grant from the
California Community College
Chancellor's Office Family and
Consumer Science Collaborative
Grant (#06-0160).
Please contact Joann Driggers (
jdriggers@mtsac.edu
) with
any questions.
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