CHILDHOODBRAINDEVELOPMENT

Nature,Nurture,Technology&Media

EARLYCHILDHOODBRAINDEVELOPMENT:

Nature,Nurture,Technology&Media

PresentedByTimBurns

EDUCARE

SantaFe,NewMexico,USAwww.TimBurnsEducare.com

1. Stimulus of the model.

2. Practice, repetition, variation.

3. Application or generalization.

STRUCTURE of COGNITIVE LEARNING

Burton White Harvard Preschool Project

Raising a Happy, Unspoiled Child, 1995)

BRAINMATURATION

•Bottomtotop

•Insidetooutside

•Sidetoside

•Backtofront

BRAINMATURATIONCerebralCortex

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Source:M.Diamond,MagicTreesoftheMind,1998

BRAINMATURATION

Frontal Lobes of the Brain

•Envisionthefuture •Dreambigdreams •Setgoals •Carryoutplans •Detectproblems •Solveproblems •Manageemotions •Controlimpulses •Considerconsequences

McLean, Paul, The Triune Brain in Evolution: Role in Paleocerebral Functions. New York: Plenum Press. 1990.

TRIUNEBRAIN

NURTURE

FEEDBACK

TRIUNEBRAIN

PLAY!

Three Non-Negotiable Requirements

Alerting network Frontal & parietal activity

M. I. Posner and M. K. Rothbart, “Research on Attention Networks as a Model for the Integration of Psychological Science,” Annual Review of Psychology 58 (2007): 1–23

ATTENTIONAL NETWORKS

Orienting network Frontal eye fields Temporietal lobe

Alerting network Frontal & parietal activity

Executive network Pre-frontal cortex Basal ganglia

Gamma-25-100Hz(40hztypical).

Bindsconsciousperception

Beta–13-30Hz.Active,alert,concentration

Alpha–9-13Hz.Relaxedfocus,lighttrance,enhancedserotoninproduction

Theta–4-8Hz.Trance-likestate;enhancedcatecholamineaidsretentionoflearning

Delta–1-3Hz.Dreamlesssleep;humangrowthhormoneproduced

REM–RapidEyeMovement;dreaming

BRAIN-MINDSTATES

• Newsynapticconnections• Newneuralnetworks• Largercellbodies• Greaterdendriticbranching• Enhancedglialproduction• Increasedquantityofsynapses• Multiplecontactareas• Increasedneurogenesisatmultiplebrainsites

Source:M.Diamond,MagicTreesoftheMind,1998

BrainEnrichmentFindings

Movement,Touch,HumanConnection,andNature

“Growingachildislikebuildingahouse:It’sallaboutthefoundation.”

Source:Zone’inPrograms,Inc.,www.Zonein.ca

Source:Zone’inPrograms,Inc.,www.Zonein.ca

Sedentary,Isolated,Over-stimulated,andNeglected

“Thewaysinwhichweareraisingandeducatingourchildrenwithtechnologyarenotsustainable.”