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Left and right brain function

November 7th, 2007 · Comments Off

You’ve seen this kind of thing before but I quite enjoyed an article that Nils linked to recently, The Right Brain vs Left Brain.  The shootout:
LEFT BRAIN FUNCTIONS

uses logic
detail oriented
facts rule
words and language
present and past
math and science
can comprehend
knowing
acknowledges
order/pattern perception
knows object name
reality based
forms strategies
practical
safe

RIGHT BRAIN FUNCTIONS

uses feeling
“big picture” oriented
imagination rules
symbols and images
present and future
philosophy & religion
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Teaching your children to decode and encode language

October 27th, 2007 · No Comments

A British education minister was being interviewed on an early morning news program and he referred to reading – as in reading books – as decoding language.  I liked the computer science reference.  Then a few minutes later he described the process of learning to write as encoding language – logical!
There’s something very satisfying about [...]

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