It’s All About the Learning

Musings, comments, and sources from an Instructional Technologist at a small community college. Have been enamored lately with reading research related to learning and the brain (I think this latest interest began with The Brain Rules, to which I refer constantly). [Link]

Anyway, prior research indicates that flavenols, found in cocoa beans, appear to increase blood flow to the brain. Taking that a step further is this exploratory study from England that fed flavenols to students in an experimental group and then asked both they and a control group to do some math calculations (counting backwards by 3’s for example). Turns out that the flavenol enhanced group were less tired and more adept than the control. [Link]

So, maybe if we come to class armed with Snickers bars? Nah .. we would run into peanut allergies for sure.