Science Café: Enhancing Children’s Learning: Insight from Cognitive, Education, and Neuroscience Research March 24, 2011

In an era of education reform, what do we know about how to improve children’s learning? Research shows that certain forms of instruction in core academic disciplines produce changes in attention and reasoning skills that can be long-lasting and transfer to other content areas years later. Speakers at this educational event will describe several lines of research that demonstrate how such learning occurs.

Dr. Lauren Resnick of the University of Pittsburgh will focus on structured classroom discussion practices that foster higher-order reasoning skills without sacrificing mastery of important content knowledge. Dr. Bruce McCandliss of Vanderbilt University will describe research demonstrating how the brain changes as young children gain new cognitive abilities in reading and math. Both speakers will highlight the nature of educational processes that are critical in driving the changes in learning and implications for research and practice. A conversation, led by Dr. Carl Wieman, Associate Director for Science, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, will follow brief presentations by the speakers.

When: Thursday, March 24, 2011, 6:00 p.m. -7:30 p.m., Light refreshments to follow
Where: Pew Conference Center, The Americas Room (2nd Fl), 901 E St, NW, Washington, DC
Admission: Free with ticket, RSVP today at www.fabbsfoundation.org/cafe
Cosponsored by the FABBS Foundation, American Educational Research Association, and the Cognitive Science Society. Support provided by SAGE Publications, Inc.
For more information, email info@fabbsfoundation.org or call 202-572-3023.

Official Website: http://www.fabbsfoundation.org/cafe