|English: PET scan of a normal human brain (Photo credit: Wikipedia)|
"In their book How People Learn, Bransford, Brown, and Cocking (2000) make the case that:
- learning changes the physical structure of the brain;
- structural changes alter the functional organization of the brain (in other words, learning organizes and reorganizes the brain), (as cited in BrainSMART Thinking for Results, 2011, p. 31).
Please explain the plasticity of the brain to your students, your neighbors, the kid at the cash register, and to random kids who appear at your door selling candles. My last word to the kids on my doorstep was, "Okay, now go change the world!" Because if they believe they can, they will try. Oh and yes, I did buy a candle.
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