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Now that you've learned more about neuroscience and how it applies to learning in general it is time to consider what aspects of neuroscience impacts online learning and what strategies best suite the environment and learners.  To summarize your thoughts complete the following activities:
  1. Interactive Activity - Create a "3 Tips" Neuroscience poster
  2. Go to the UBC Connect forum to upload your poster and talk with others about its application to f2f and online learning.
  3. Discuss your thoughts on the growth mindset and your experience playing the games in the UBC Connect forum. 
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Create a Poster
Distilling neuroscience into educational tips is a useful, concise way to help teachers implement neuroscientific principles into their instruction. Below is a an interactive activity for you to use to create a "3 Tips for Online Learning" Neuroscience poster. Choose the top three tips you think teachers need to know when they are designing for this environments.
 
There is research within the interactive to provide you with ideas and suggestions as well as this blog post: A List of Brain-based Strategies to Create Effective eLearning

 

When finished, take a picture of your poster and share it with the group on our discussion forum. 
 
Below are two videos: The first shows you how to create a poster inside the activity and the second, for those who need it, shows you how to quickly create an image file for uploading. 
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This video reviews how to complete the poster using the interactive activity above.
This video explores how to save a picture of your poster so you can post it on the discussion page.
Comment Online
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We hope you join us in the UBC Connect forum to share your poster and what you learned today. We've created three discussion questions to start you off.
  1. Conversation One:  3-Tip Poster--Upload your image and tell us why you chose your 3 tips.
  2. Conversation Two:  Reflect on your experience playing the two online games? Do you think a growth mindset game could have an effect on student motivation and perseverance? Do you find the growth mindset concept convincing? Why or why not? If you do, please share your ideas for implementing it in your context.
NEUROSCIENCE for Online Learning 

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Designers: Kendra Grant, Jennifer Hanson & Stephen Lerch

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