Carolyn Jack
Editor and CEO, Geniocity.comA project of The Genius Group LLC
Creative Nerve
D.C.-Baltimore area becomes arts-ed mecca in May
Check this out: The Learning & the Brain Society will hold its 23rd conference in the Washington-Baltimore area May 7-9, co-sponsored by Johns Hopkins University School of Education and the Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives. The title of it is “The Creative Brain: Using Brain Research on Creativity & the Arts to Improve Learning.”
It will be preceded on May 6 by a special summit and roundtable discussion at Johns Hopkins University on Learning, Arts, and the Brain, the title of a significant Dana Consortium study on the relationship between arts and improved learning that was led by Michael Gazzaniga . (Gazzaniga, who is director of the University of California-Santa Barbara’s SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind, answers some important questions about the study and the relationship between the arts and improved learning skills in an interview by Carolyn Asbury posted on the Dana Foundation site.)
As its posted public-relations material explains, the conference’s overall purpose is to ”explore the latest brain research on how the arts can improve achievement, learning, reading, math, mood, and interventions for learning disorders, and offers strategies to create more creative-thinking students and schools.”
Exactly what’s needed.
(You can become a member of the Learning & the Brain Society by clicking here and then clicking on the Join the Society button on the left side of the site. )