Endangered Minds

2011-07-19
Endangered Minds

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  • Author: Jane M. Healy
  • Publisher: Simon and Schuster
  • ISBN: 1439126704
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 396

Is today's fast-paced media culture creating a toxic environment for our children's brains? In this landmark, bestselling assessment tracing the roots of America's escalating crisis in education, Jane M. Healy, Ph.D., examines how television, video games, and other components of popular culture compromise our children's ability to concentrate and to absorb and analyze information. Drawing on neuropsychological research and an analysis of current educational practices, Healy presents in clear, understandable language: -- How growing brains are physically shaped by experience -- Why television programs -- even supposedly educational shows like Sesame Street -- develop "habits of mind" that place children at a disadvantage in school -- Why increasing numbers of children are diagnosed with attention deficit disorder -- How parents and teachers can make a critical difference by making children good learners from the day they are born

Full Gospel, Fractured Minds?

2010-02-23
Full Gospel, Fractured Minds?

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  • Author: Rick M. Nañez
  • Publisher: Zondervan Academic
  • ISBN: 0310862116
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 276

Do you sometimes feel you have to check your intellect at the church door, leaving reason behind to embrace the Christian faith? Do you hunger for a “full gospel” that includes the mind as well as heart and Spirit? Full Gospel, Fractured Minds? challenges charismatic and Pentecostal believers to discover the power of a well-maintained mind—a mind on fire—to match a heart on fire and to create a life that operates within the full counsel of God . Nañez shows how human reason helps us understand and interpret God’s Word as well as defend the gospel. He shows what the Bible teaches about the mind, and explores the backgrounds of nineteenth-century and modern culture, anti-intellectualism, Pentecostal history and beliefs, and popular misconceptions about human intellect in relation to the Christian faith. Full Gospel, Fractured Minds? helps men and women practice a Christian faith that reflects the whole person and the full gospel. “Rick Nañez calls Pentecostals and charismatics to seek a balance between mind and Spirit. This book will stir you to seek all that God has for you.” —From the Foreword by Stanley M. Horton, PhD

Endangered Minds

1990
Endangered Minds

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  • Author: Jane M. Healy
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Educational psychology
  • Languages : en
  • Pages :

Shades of Loneliness

2004
Shades of Loneliness

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  • Author: Richard Stivers
  • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
  • ISBN: 0742530027
  • Category : Information society
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 164

In this incisive and controversial book, Richard Stivers rejects genetic explanations of psychological problems, arguing instead that the very organization of technological societies is behind the pervasive experience of loneliness. In its extreme form, loneliness assumes pathological dimensions in neurosis and schizophrenia, which reflect the contradiction between power and meaninglessness that characterizes modern life. Loneliness, in its many manifestations, seems to be the price we must pay for living in a technological world. Yet nurturing family, friend, and community ties can mitigate its culturally and psychologically disorganizing power. This book is a clarion call for a renewal of moral awareness and custom to combat the fragmentation and depersonalization of our technological civilization. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Natural Learning for a Connected World

2011-04-08
Natural Learning for a Connected World

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  • Author: Renate Nummela Caine
  • Publisher: Teachers College Press
  • ISBN: 0807751898
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 256

Why do video games fascinate kids so much that they will spend hours pursuing a difficult skill? Why don't they apply this kind of intensity to their school work? In their most penetrating and important work in years, these two leaders in the field of brain-based education build a bridge to the future of education with a dynamic model of teaching that works for all grade levels and in all cultural and ethnic groups. The authors' education model, the "Guided Experience Approach," is based on the way that biologists see learning as a totally natural, continuous interaction between perception and action. Natural Learning for a Connected World provides a practical, step-by-step description and successful examples from practice of this perception action cycle so that we can finally provide the learning environments essential for our children to thrive in the knowledge age.

Kid’s Eye View of Science

2010-09-08
Kid’s Eye View of Science

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  • Author: Susan J. Kovalik
  • Publisher: Corwin Press
  • ISBN: 1452237425
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 312

Rediscover science from a child's perspective and enhance your inquiry-based science toolbox with brain-based strategies that integrate science across content areas and improve student outcomes.

Grandparents' Guide to Gifted Children

2004
Grandparents' Guide to Gifted Children

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  • Author: James T. Webb
  • Publisher: Great Potential Press, Inc.
  • ISBN: 0910707685
  • Category : Gifted children
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 320

Grandparents, with their greater life experience, will often realize?Xeven before the parents?Xthat a child is gifted, and that the child will need additional emotional and intellectual sustenance. Grandparents Guide to Gifted Children includes: ?XEarly signs of giftedness ?XSpecial needs of gifted children ?XAreas of concern ?XUnique roles of grandparents ?XBuilding a bond with a grandchild ?XMaximizing grandparenting ?XEducation plans ?XWhen a grandparent is the parent ?XLeaving a personal legacy

Building the Reading Brain, PreK-3

2009-01-06
Building the Reading Brain, PreK-3

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  • Author: Pamela Nevills
  • Publisher: Corwin Press
  • ISBN: 1452272573
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 232

Discover how children’s brains change as they develop early reading skills! Moving through skills acquisition from birth to age eight, this updated edition of the best-selling book gives educators a clear picture of how children acquire and develop language skills in preparation for reading. This updated edition features developmentally appropriate practices for fostering critical literacy skills in each age group and expanded information on English learners and Response to Intervention. The authors provide: Brain-friendly strategies that build phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, comprehension, and fluency skills Instructional applications for games, music, and play Interventions for children with early reading difficulties

A Royal Waste of Time

1999
A Royal Waste of Time

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  • Author: Marva J. Dawn
  • Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
  • ISBN: 9780802845863
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 390

In this book, Marva Dawn insists that churches need to engage in a serious process of community discernment concerning worship in order to employ the best tools and forms, and she offers reflections to further the discussion. Each part of A Royal "Waste" of Time begins with a sample Scripture-based sermon since Dawn emphasizes that the church's worship must follow biblical guidelines and form a biblical people.--From publisher's description.

Game Addiction

2009-06-08
Game Addiction

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  • Author: Neils Clark
  • Publisher: McFarland
  • ISBN: 0786453494
  • Category : Games & Activities
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 211

An eleven-year-old boy strangled an elderly woman for the equivalent of five dollars in 2007, then buried her body under a thin layer of sand. He told the police that he needed the money to play online videogames. Just a month later, an eight-year-old Norwegian boy saved his younger sister’s life by threatening an attacking moose and then feigning death when the moose attacked him—skills he said he learned while playing World of Warcraft. As these two instances show, videogames affect the minds, bodies, and lives of millions of gamers, negatively and positively. This book approaches videogame addiction from a cross-disciplinary perspective, bridging the divide between liberal arts academics and clinical researchers. The topic of addiction is examined neutrally, using accepted research in neuroscience, media studies, and developmental psychology.