The Other Lobe of The Brain

A Blog About Experiential Education, Social Media, and the Brain…

We continue here, and for a while, to post pieces written by one of us and students at Northeastern University. This one deals with the moment when a student working outside the classroom (here in a biology lab) realizes that they are fufilling real responsibilities.  Enjoy and tell us what you think.
- Jim and Shwen.
The Moment of Conversion:
Where Experiential Education Begins To Take [...]

One of the ideas we will follow in this blog is to post with student co-authors. These posts will be collected under the category “student views.” In a Web 2.0 world all voices are welcome and the insights from students not only help define and refine programs of experiential education, they also can help us [...]

This is a moment on of intersection. Perhaps it always is. But the moment about which we write here comes from the confluence of developments in modern neuroscience in revealing the inner workings of the brain and the implications of how we think people may learn in an experiential way, in addition to classic “ivory-tower” [...]

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