{"id":1388,"date":"2017-11-26T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2017-11-26T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paddyeger.com\/educatingamerica\/blog\/?p=1388"},"modified":"2017-11-26T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2017-11-26T10:00:01","slug":"brain-based-learning-tip-4-the-human-brain-craves-novelty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/2017\/11\/26\/brain-based-learning-tip-4-the-human-brain-craves-novelty\/","title":{"rendered":"Brain-Based Learning &#8211; Tip #4 &#8211; The Human Brain Craves Novelty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1463\" src=\"http:\/\/www.paddyeger.com\/educatingamerica\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/images.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/>I recently read an article on edutopia.org, the George Lucas Educational Foundation site, about Brain-Based Learning. What follows is the last blog about some of their thoughts and tips with my two cents added in.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Tip #4<\/p>\n<p>Work to create a non-static classroom where routines vary, inquiry is valued and hands-on is an everyday occurrence. Make it a place where higher level thinking skills are examined, lectures are limited to less than 10 minutes, and guests are informally invited in.<\/p>\n<p>Include field trips as well as PE, art and music, robotics, and student experts are valued and sought after as ways to stimulate student energy; a place where thinking, working, learning, evaluating and making changes are part of each student&#8217;s educational plan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently read an article on edutopia.org, the George Lucas Educational Foundation site, about Brain-Based Learning. What follows is the last blog about some of their thoughts and tips with my two cents added in. Tip #4 Work to create a non-static classroom where routines vary, inquiry is valued and hands-on is an everyday occurrence.\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/2017\/11\/26\/brain-based-learning-tip-4-the-human-brain-craves-novelty\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[300,301,20,16,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brain-based-learning","category-classroom-tips","category-engaging-students","category-teacher-tips","category-thinking-questioning-strategies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}