from: Cheri Torres [mailto:
cheri@mobileteamchallenge.com]
Lynn and others,
This activity is one of many that can be found in Brain Gym (movements to
"connect" the top and bottom, left & right, and front and back of the
brain). Building Bridges is also a program that offers additional
activities to help with learning difficulties. These are all part of
educational kineseology.
Cheri
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Cheri B. Torres
www.mobileteamchallenge.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lynn Martin" <
Lynn.Martin@uce.ac.uk>
To: <
MG-ED-DV@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU>
Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 8:41 AM
Subject: Re: Getting through to students
Though admittedly a tad off-topic for our virtual community, I thought I
would share a sort of breakthrough in learning that I just read about.
It
is a cure for dyslexia involving tossing a beanbag from one hand to the
other and back again and balancing on a board:
<http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/research/story/0,9865,1220980,00
.htm
l>
It reminds of acupuncture, where you stick a pin a toe and your back
feels
better and such. That is, the systemic nature of the human person.
As a teacher, looking at the student who seems to have problems learning
in
a course of mine, I will look twice and think: "What workarounds to
learning
this material can I recommend this fellow?" "Could I have presented this
via
different media that would have broken through to this student and her
particular learning style?"
Cybercollegially,
Charles Wankel
http://management-education.net/