|
Digital
Education. Apple. Point of view.
Percival J. Denham
[Spanish]
LA NACION LINE | 05.26.02 | Learning
Today. The
educated brain. Antonio M. Battro
[Spanish]
LA NACION LINE | 05.19.02 | Learning
Today. Occam'
razor. Antonio M. Battro
[Spanish]
LA NACION LINE | 05.12.02 | Learning
Today. Teaching
with affection. Antonio M. Battro
[Spanish]
LA NACION LINE | 05.05.02 | Learning
Today. Permanent
precocity. Antonio M. Battro
[Spanish]
|
New
Search in Battro & Denham
Antonio M. Battro is now the Robert F.
Kennedy Visiting Professor of Latin
American Studies at the Graduate School of
Education, Harvard University.
He writes:
The contribution of non-invasive brain
technologies such as fMRI in the field of
cognitive neuroscience has provided an
impressive leverage to the educational
neurosciences. My effort now is to join
the two fields of educational computer
technology and cognitive neuroscience in
order to open a new frontier of research.
A first approach towards this synthesis is
my recent book "Half a brain is enough"
(Cambridge, 2000) where I describe the
impact of the digital technologies in the
education of a hemispherectomized
child.
Hemispherectomies performed at an early
age to control intractable epilepsy show
encouraging therapeutic results and now we
can provide a sound education for these
children.
Incidentally, the half-brain studies that
I pursue might become an important
complement to the split-brain studies
pioneered by Roger Sperry several decades
ago. Finally, my neuroeducational approach
may contribute, I hope, to the better
understanding of the remarkable neuronal
plasticity of the "schooled brain" in the
general practice of education.
|
