Seventh International School On Mind, Brain And Education
Program, 2012 July 30 - August 4
Teaching: A New Frontier
of the Neurocognitive
Sciences, Education
and Culture
Directors: Antonio M. Battro and Kurt W. Fischer
Program officer: María Lourdes Majdalani
PROGRAM 2012 - ALL SESSIONS WERE HELD AT SAN ROCCO LECTURE HALL
MONDAY 30 JULY
Registration and lodging
20.00 Dinner and reception at La Pineta (see map)
TUESDAY 31 JULY
The Teaching Brain
Moderator: Sidney Strauss
9.00 - 9.30 Welcome: Antonio Battro and Sidney Strauss
9.30 - 10.00 Yadin Dudai: Learning in a changing world: When more is less, and less is more
10.00 - 10.30 Katsumi Watanabe: Measuring cognitive performances and its relation to educational practices: Toward interdisciplinary collaborations between basic research and applied fields
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee break
11.30 - 12.30 Discussions
Lunch
15.30 - 16.00 Antonio Battro: Going deep into Socrates’ teaching brain: fNIRS, transfer and the Meno experiment
16.00 - 16.30 Miriam Reiner: The tacit neural components of teaching, learning and evaluation
16.30 - 17.00 Vanessa Rodriguez: An MBE model of the teaching brain: Towards a more comprehensive approach for educating with “both” brains in mind
17.00 - 17.30 Jiaxian Zhou: Culturally appropriate pedagogy: Evidence from neuroscience
17.30 - 18.00 Coffee break
18.00 - 19.00 Discussions
WEDNESDAY 1 AUGUST
Evolution and Development of Teaching
Moderator: Antonio Battro
9.00 - 9.30 Sidney Strauss: Teaching’s wide scope
9.30 - 10.00 Hideaki Koizumi: What is “teaching” from the viewpoint of Brain-Science?
10.00 - 10.30 Pierre Léna: Teaching natural sciences: from yesterday to tomorrow
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee break
11.00 - 12.30 Discussions
Lunch
15.30 - 16.00 Elena Pasquinelli: Slippery slopes. How to favor a good encounter between education and the sciences of the mind-brain
16.00 - 16.30 Kazuo Yano: The science of face-to-face interaction and teaching
16.30 - 17.00 Gentaro Taga: Developmental cognitive neuroscience approach to learning and teaching
17.00 - 17.30 Michael Chazan: Teaching and learning: some perspectives from Prehistory
17.30 - 18.00 Coffee break
18.00 - 19.00 Discussions
THURSDAY 2 AUGUST
Free day: Optional visit to the historical places of Segesta and Selinunte
FRIDAY 3 AUGUST
Culture and Teaching
Moderator: Hideaki Koizumi
9.00 - 9.30 Carla Rinaldi: Making learning visible. Children as individual and group learners
9.30 - 10.00 Soraya Umewaka: Cleaning the lens of our thoughts
10.00 - 10.30 Maryanne Wolf: Implications of the evolving reading brain for intervention
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee break
11.00 - 12.30 Discussions
Lunch
15.30 - 16.00 Clara Milazzo: Explorations in foreign language teaching systems: using Artificial Intelligence for educational purposes
16.00 - 16.30 Giuseppe Longo: Empathy and literature: a neurocognitive approach to the educational goals of literary didactics
16.30 - 17.00 Paolo Ferri: The use of digital technologies
17.00 - 17.30 Horacio Reggini: Back to books and their metamorphosis
17.30 - 18.00 Coffee break
18.00 - 19.00 Discussions
21.00: Farewell dinner at La Pineta
SATURDAY 4 AUGUST
Departure