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The Brain Landing Project focuses on helping children improve their mental health and learning abilities through a conscious creativity collaborative process. By teaching them about the neurobiology of learning and memory and using technology, such as computers and the internet, children can develop their thinking processes and acquire new skills. This distance learning program is a partnership between the University of Florence and the Elementary School of Grumo Nevano in Italy.
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http://www.egocreanet.it Paolo ManzelliLRE@unifi.it, Giuseppe Luganolugano@cs.helsinki.fi Introduction to the BRAIN LANDING PROJECT based on NEUROBIOLOGY OF LEARNING AND MEMORY University of Florence – EGOCREANET Telematic Association Elementary School of Grumo Nevano (Neaples) Italy HEINOLA – Communication Camp (www.viekas.fi) - Finland 12 June 2005
BRAIN IMAGE Mission: • Brain Landing Project is focused on helping children to learn and improve their mental health within a conscious creativity collaborative process.
BRAIN EVOLUTION – New Contents and Methods • Pupils learn basic knowledge of neurobiology of learning and memory to understand consciously their growing ability of thinking process and to acquire new skills by technological use of computers in internet. The education path is developed by means of distance learning and data exchange between Ego-creanet members of the University of Florence and the research teaching team of the Elementary school of Grumo Nevano (Naples).
GROWING UP DENDRITES • Goal : Building Collaborative Memory processes in internet. • There are two ways to utilize the memory development in the learning processes. • Short Term Memory (STM) • Long Term Memory (LTM) • Normally the traditional education systems prefer the individual reinforcement of (LTM) using the old methodology named in Latin language “REPETITA JUVANT” • In spite of this old tradition the Brain Landing project takes in consideration the contemporary need of improving the SHORT TERM MEMORY processes. As a matter of fact, in the Information Society LTM can be externalized in the computers linked in internet, opening new dynamics of collaborative learning.
STM collaborative exercises are becoming very important for growing up “BRAIN´s PLASTICITY”. Plasticity of brain is a function of a very large co-operation among neurons by means of integration of various functional areas of the brain, as we can see by the Brain Imaging Techniques. (ex.: f.NMR) Short Long Term Memory
Donald Hebb • The famous Neurologist Donald Hebb (1949) discovered the effect of simultaneous activation of dendrites and wrote “ NEURONS THAT FIRE TOGHETER WIRE TOGETHER” • this means that a resonance effect improves the simultaneous action potential reinforcing the STM in learning processes. Hence the PLASTICITY of the brain is becoming a function of the best utilization of STM. • In short and in practice, those brain notions tell us that creative plasticity of the brain learning activities are becoming a function of a collaborative sharing of knowledge. • www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Archive/hebb.html
BRAIN´s CHANGES • Sharing knowledge is a contemporary fundamental need for growing up the European Knowledge Society. • Therefore we need to improve consciously a “critical change” in educational contents and methods through improving children’s SHORT TERM MEMORY SKILLS AND ABILITIES, so that they will be able to develop together a more reactive co-operative intelligence and conscious creativity. • This approach is oriented to favour a change in the memory processes of contemporary learning and is the main result expected by the BRAIN LANDING elementary school project. • See the following presentation made by the teachers’ “experimental research team” of the GRUMO NEVANO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PROJECT IN ITALY.
