Harnessing the Incredible Learning Potential of the Adolescent BrainKatrina SchwartzDec 21, 2015https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/12/Teenage-brain-768x432.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/12/Teenage-brain-1440x810.jpg 1280w" />It has become a cultural cliché that raising adolescents is…See More

NEWS RELEASE 27-MAY-2019Brain stimulation enhances visual learning speed and efficiencyMay aid in faster vision recovery after strokeUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTERPractice results in better learning. Consider learning a musical instrument, for example: the more one practices, the better one will be able to learn to play. The same holds true for cognition and visual perception:…See More

HEALTH & SCIENCE / NEUROSCIENCEHow Screen Time Creates Kid ‘Dopamine Addicts’ With Bad HabitsResearch shows that children's brains on screen time look a lot like children's brains on cocaine, and scientists are just starting to discover what that means.By Lauren…See More

An Everlasting Presence: Richard Wilde’s Legacy Isn’t Going AnywhereWILDE IS RETIRING, BUT HIS INFLUENCE ON THE GRAPHIC DESIGN INDUSTRY AND SVA COMMUNITY IS IMPOSSIBLE TO MEASUREApril 19, 2019by Bridget BadoreShare:…See More

YOUTH : LIFE STYLEIntegrating creativity in hard sciencesPublished on April 18, 2019As  per the general  perception,  Science  is  considered  to  be  least  exciting,  full  of  theories,  hypotheses, observations and practical investigations. All these are supplemented with monotonous lectures. To top it all, it is very difficult to attract the attention of students…See More

(A Review of Timothy Gangwer’s Whole Brain Visual Thinking)You can bet that this translates to 65% of your students being visual learners. This is a method of education that is generally overlooked. It is unfortunate, especially when the mind processes visual information 60,000 times faster than text.Timothy Gangwer’s definition of Whole Brain Visual Thinking, has three aspects to…See More

Teaching science students visual literacy life skillsFebruary 26, 2019 Erika Offerdahl (left) with post-doctoral researcher Jessie Arneson. (Photo by Henry Moore, Jr., College of Veterinary Medicine)By Marcia Hill Gossard, College of Veterinary MedicineStudents who study molecular biosciences can’t actually see what they are learning.“We can never see with our eyes the things we study,”…See More

POSTED ON FEBRUARY 19, 2019 BY URBANA DAILY CITIZENStudy: Hearing impairment also affects visual learningNEWSSubmitted storyA new…See More