Learning and the Brain: Teaching Stronger Brains
Learning and the Brain: Teaching Stronger Brains
Associate Teacher
February 20-22, 2025
This was a large conference with many excellent keynote speakers (Temple Grandin, for example) and smaller breakout workshops. If you are interested in neuroscience and the science behind learning, this is a conference you can nerd out at and learn many practical skills to use in the classroom. There was a wide variety of speakers, and you could tailor the experience to your needs.
I feel like, because there were so many different keynotes and speakers, I didn’t leave the conference with one big takeaway, but rather many small ones that I have been trying to integrate. Some of these things include challenging myself to see differences in behavior and learning profiles as neither better or worse, practicing fostering curiosity with students around mistakes- theirs and my own, and being more disciplined in practicing kindness where it might be challenging, and appreciating the strength it takes to be kind and empathetic a majority of the time.
I recommend attending this conference if you are interested in the main topic.
https://www.learningandthebrain.com/conference-551/teaching-generation-ai-z next year's SF theme is AI!
It's so true that it's the collection of small takeaways that leaves a mark after large conferences. This one sounds like it was a great one and I love the challenge to see behavior through a neutral lens with curiosity as the way to approach supporting students in the best way possible. I'll have to look in to next year's on AI! Thanks for sharing:)