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Emotions and the Brain
The Sentis Brain Animation Series takes you on a tour of the brain through a series of short and sharp animations. The fifth in the series explains what is happening in our brains as we experience ... ITALIAN SUBTITLES (by Chiara Gorla) when we hear the...
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Ellis Island/2
Uploaded by Jesse Smith on 2013-09-10. COMING TO AMERICA: NEW YORK’S IMMIGRANTS The United States has long been a destination for immigrants from around the world. Immigrants are people who leave one country to settle in another and New York City has...
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La lettera di Ellie: "Just a little Observation"
"Questa lettera è stata scritta da una studentessa americana di scuola media, Ellie, che frequenta un istituto che sta coltivando il Growth Mindset o "Mentalità di Crescita" attraverso lo sviluppo professionale del corpo docenti e dello staff, le lezioni...
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Progetto Brainology™: coltivare una Mentalità di Crescita e Trasformare la Motivazione
Due anni di sperimentazione, studio, riflessione, confronto, condivisione. Due anni di Progetto BrainologyTM con i ragazzi di alcune Terze dell'Istituto Comprensivo Cesare Battisti - Scuola Aldo Moro di Ceriano Laghetto - (MB), alla scoperta della Mentalità...
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Brainology™/12
Brainology® www.mindsetworks.com WHEN YOU LEARN YOU LITERALLY BUILD UP YOUR BRAIN MAKING IT SMARTER AND STRONGER Emotions and Learning… That’s what we have explored during our last Brainology® classes. Here are some basic facts we’ve learned about: Negative...
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Repeat and Review
Our "Repeat and Review" strategies When you cultivate a Growth Mindset you enjoy practicing and see it as part of the process of getting good at something. You also know that only things that you repeat and practice over and over again make it to the...
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Brainology™/17
Brainology® www.mindsetworks.com WHEN YOU LEARN YOU LITERALLY BUILD UP YOUR BRAIN MAKING IT SMARTER AND STRONGER Hi Guys! We’ve just started the fourth level of our Brainology® program: Brain Boosters! In this level we’re going to learn useful and effective...
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Brainology™/10
Brainology® www.mindsetworks.com WHEN YOU LEARN YOU LITERALLY BUILD UP YOUR BRAIN MAKING IT SMARTER AND STRONGER Hello kids! Last Wednesday we visited Dr. Cerebrus’ lab again! We wanted to explore the relationship* between learning* and emotions. Actually,...
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Brainology™/11
Brainology® www.mindsetworks.com WHEN YOU LEARN YOU LITERALLY BUILD UP YOUR BRAIN MAKING IT SMARTER AND STRONGER Hi Guys! Today we explored more deeply how emotions affect* our learning and we also did our “online” test: we passed it! We are now “Artisans”....
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Brainology™/14
Brainology® www.mindsetworks.com WHEN YOU LEARN YOU LITERALLY BUILD UP YOUR BRAIN MAKING IT SMARTER AND STRONGER WARNING!!! Reading this post will make you smarter… “How does the learning happen?” This is the quest(ion!) we have tried to answer this week...
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The two Mindsets
Hi guys, the graphic organizer above comes from decades of research by Dr. Carol Dweck (Stanford University) - California, and her team. Researchers discovered that people can choose to respond either in the Fixed Mindset or in the Growth Mindset when...
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3 Brainology™
Brainology™ www.mindsetworks.com WHEN YOU LEARN YOU LITERALLY BUILD UP YOUR BRAIN MAKING IT SMARTER AND STRONGER Hi guys! Last Tuesday we talked a lot about VALUES: they are important beliefs we have as members of a culture. The word itself – VALUES -...
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Brainology™/6
Brainology® www.mindsetworks.com WHEN YOU LEARN YOU LITERALLY BUILD UP YOUR BRAIN MAKING IT SMARTER AND STRONGER Hi Guys! Last Tuesday we finally entered Doctor Cerebrus Lab: we were looking for some answers to complete our Quest about BASIC BRAIN FUNCTIONS...
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Brainology™/5
Brainology® www.mindsetworks.com WHEN YOU LEARN YOU LITERALLY BUILD UP YOUR BRAIN MAKING IT SMARTER AND STRONGER Hi Guys! Here’s a short summary of our last Brainology® class. First of all, some of our classmates have shared* with us the values that are...
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Brainology™/4
Brainology® www.mindsetworks.com WHEN YOU LEARN YOU LITERALLY BUILD UP YOUR BRAIN MAKING IT SMARTER AND STRONGER Hi Guys! During our last Brainology® class we shared* some personal and real experiences from our own lives. Each of us remembered a time...
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Brainology™/3
Brainology™ www.mindsetworks.com WHEN YOU LEARN YOU LITERALLY BUILD UP YOUR BRAIN MAKING IT SMARTER AND STRONGER Hi guys, here are 10 facts and data that we discovered about our brain and about our learning process* during our last Brainology® class:...
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Brainology™/2
Brainology™ www.mindsetworks.com WHEN YOU LEARN YOU LITERALLY BUILD UP YOUR BRAIN MAKING IT SMARTER AND STRONGER Today, during our Brainology® program, we assessed our “mindset profile”. Oh my Gosh! What does it mean? It simply means that we reflected...
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Brainology™
Brainology™ www.mindsetworks.com WHEN YOU LEARN YOU LITERALLY BUILD UP YOUR BRAIN MAKING IT SMARTER AND STRONGER Today we met Dahlia and Chris: they’re two American teenagers with some school problems, just like most of us. We've read through a list of...
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4 Brainology™
Brainology™ www.mindsetworks.com WHEN YOU LEARN YOU LITERALLY BUILD UP YOUR BRAIN MAKING IT SMARTER AND STRONGER Here’s a short summary of our last week Brainology® class. First of all, I handed you back your projects about what values that are most important...
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Brainology™/16
Brainology® www.mindsetworks.com WHEN YOU LEARN YOU LITERALLY BUILD UP YOUR BRAIN MAKING IT SMARTER AND STRONGER Hi Kids! During our two last Brainology Classes, we’ve got acquainted with* some nice guys: “Summer-Camp Rats”, “Couch Potato Rats”, London...
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Brainology™/13
Brainology® www.mindsetworks.com WHEN YOU LEARN YOU LITERALLY BUILD UP YOUR BRAIN MAKING IT SMARTER AND STRONGER Welcome back to our Brainology Program! In today’s lesson we entered level 3 of our program: Brain Building. We tried to get a deeper understanding*...
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Brainology™/7
Brainology® www.mindsetworks.com WHEN YOU LEARN YOU LITERALLY BUILD UP YOUR BRAIN MAKING IT SMARTER AND STRONGER Hi Guys! We are now APPRENTICES! We overcame* our First Level Challenge*. We did such a great job so far*! Congrats to you! During our last...
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7 Brainology™
Brainology™ www.mindsetworks.com WHEN YOU LEARN YOU LITERALLY BUILD UP YOUR BRAIN MAKING IT SMARTER AND STRONGER Emotions and Learning… That’s what we have explored during our last Brainology™ classes. Here are some basic facts we’ve learned about: 1...
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6 Brainology™
Brainology™ www.mindsetworks.com WHEN YOU LEARN YOU LITERALLY BUILD UP YOUR BRAIN MAKING IT SMARTER AND STRONGER Hello kids! For the last two Tuesdays we have visited Dr. Cerebrus’ lab again! We wanted to explore the relationship* between learning* and...
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Brainology™/9
Brainology® www.mindsetworks.com WHEN YOU LEARN YOU LITERALLY BUILD UP YOUR BRAIN MAKING IT SMARTER AND STRONGER Hi Guys! Last Tuesday we finally entered the second level of our BrainologyÒ program: Brain Behavior*. As a start, we read through short biographies...