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Blog2 The different brain users

2021-09-27 / / 2 Comments

In my personal experience, I have told a lot that people perform differently just because their brains’ working areas are different and the lead to preference of people. For instance, a person who is good at math just because he has a more active right brain. However, the article I read this week shocked me a lot.

The article says that actually there is no significant bias of people using their brains, which means that two parts of our brain, at all times, work together and corporate with each other. It is obvious that both of these two parts have their advantages. For example, the left brain deals with people’s pronunciation whereas the right brain focuses more on the logic of things. Besides, there is no bias that only the left or the right part of the brain dominates people’s actions, so it is wrong that attribute all differences from individuals to their brains.

The article tells me that the differences among people are not as drastic as I thought before and it provides a basic view that when teachers are teaching their students, the teacher should focus more on the different learning styles, but not focuses on which student has a “better” brain.

 References

Left Brain versus Right Brain Thinkers. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.educationalneuroscience.org.uk/resources/neuromyth-or-neurofact/left-brain-versus-right-brain-thinkers/

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2021-09-20 / / 1 Comment

I have read the website “Top 300 Tools for Learning 2021” and I discovered that two of my most familiar software have been listed on that.

The Zoom, of course, should be the software that most students know it because most courses are taught through this application. I would like to say that this website is one of the most useful one I have ever experienced since I have completed my year 2 based on that and I have a lot of appreciation about this application. However, I do notice a thing that seems to be unusual, which is the ranking of YouTube is higher than Zoom.

To my perspective, I think the reason of the higher ranking is that students have to search more course related stuffs and studying online on the YouTube. Compared to face-to-face courses, online courses always have lower efficiency and it is more likely students to be absent from classes. So, students have to gain sources from the internet.That is the reason that YouTube ranks higher than Zoom.

Top tools for learning 2021. (n.d.). Retrieved September 20, 2021, from https://www.toptools4learning.com/.

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Welcome and Introduction

2021-05-04 / / 1 Comment

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