Neuroscience and Education: Understanding the Learning Brain

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Explore insights from neuroscience, psychology, and education to discover how experiences change your brain to support learning. Survey brain development, from early childhood into adulthood, with a particular focus on the transition between high school to college and environmental factors that optimize growth and learning. Discuss well-being and how wellness affects beliefs about education. Learn how mind and brain science provides evidence-based strategies and skills to enhance life-long learning. Test learning strategies, evaluate experiences through reflection, and make adjustments to enrich conditions for thriving in higher education. Open to all first-year students.