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stem stories.
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Mr. Ewing, this is Installment seven on our journey through
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a magical unicorn year and exploring what it means to
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educate through a virtual learning space.
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We're gonna talk about the brain and how it works.
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And I think it's really, really important that our scholars
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actually understand and learn about their own brain and how
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their brain functions.
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Find over what goes our dog, how it functions in
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a classroom or actually for learning.
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And I think once they learn that it really empowers
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them. Teoh know how to use their brain.
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So one of the first things we're gonna do, we're
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going to do a little game of Simon says.
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So Simon says which hands up seven says for trans
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Forward Science says, Put your hands down.
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This is lift your hands up, Simon says, Put your
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hands together a lot of words.
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How did you do?
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Another thing that we can do is actually nearing, so
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I'm not gonna talk.
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I just want you to mirror my actions.
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What we just did was actually helped release some of
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these brain hormones by making a connection, even though I'm
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not actually really there.
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I'm video.
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I'm in my own house, but by your mirror focusing
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and mirroring what I'm doing.
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Whether it be, Simon says, or just the marrying game,
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I actually am encouraging your brain to release happiness hormones.
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That's why you creating videos, educators creating videos of themselves
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with the eye contact, making those emotional connections.
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And I've got a dog under my desk who was
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scratching at my feet that once my personal attention, which
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is helping me to release some of these.
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But by doing this in a virtual world, you're actually
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creating a bond with your students, a bond that so
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many people say, Oh, you can't do that in a
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virtual world.
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Well, we just did, or it's showing images that released
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these chemicals, these hormones in our brain to help build
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those connections.
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So let's talk about what they are, because in order
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for us to be learners, we've got to get our
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brain ready.
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It's sort of like doing exercises where you warm up
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doing things like this before you start the content.
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Learning actually helps students learn better and explain to your
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students why you're doing it.
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So the 1st 1 is doping me and don't mean
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actually, when it's released in our brain helps us feel
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pleasure, happiness.
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It's a big part of how we, um think and
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how we plan.
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We need that released into our brain so that we're
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thinking better and we can actually planned better.
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So by releasing dopamine before you teach a lesson is
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actually encouraging students sprains to learn better.
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Actually, Tosa, this is my favorite.
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Actually, toast is like a virtual hug.
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Okay, now, in a world where worry actually have to
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be social distancing, we can't hug people.
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So we have to give a virtual home in a
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way to do that is actually create an environment that
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makes students feel really good and that whole mirroring exercise.
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You feel connected to that person, your student, your student
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feels connected to you to you, and it's releasing oxytocin.
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It's sort of like I have my teddy bear from
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when I was a little kid, and every time I
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see it in my room, a little oxytocin is released
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in my my my brain because it brings back that
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coddling horn own that Look what we call the love
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hormone, that chemical that was released because we feel loved
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and then the last one.
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I want to talk about his endorphins that also it
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gets released.
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Um, if I don't talk about serotonin, I will endorphins
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actually help us reduce pain and reproduced boost happiness.
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We need that and endorphins get released during that if
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you think about like when we're exercise and they were
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not feeling great during it.
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But all of a sudden we just start feeling like,
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Oh my gosh, this is working because endorphins are being
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released. Same thing with learning when learning is happening.
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So before we get into the amygdala, want about serotonin?
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Serotonin actually also gets released in our brains.
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And that's another chemical that actually helps us feel excited
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and feel happiness.
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So the amygdala is a very small piece in their
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brain, tiny, tiny little piece.
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But all information flows through our Magdala, and a regular
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is going to send it out in different directions.
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Super important.
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But the only one that does not memory our information
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piece of information that goes for a medulla kind of
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interesting back is smell that goes straight up to our
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front alone.
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Now the megillah serves to decipher informations and it where
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it needs to be, but it's also responsible.
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And this is why it's super important that students have
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learned this.
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It's also responsible for the fight, right or freeze fight
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freeze for flight mode that students get into, and it's
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something that they can actually control.
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Um, it's really important that they understand that.
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And if you want to know more about, do a
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little bit of research on the, um, ignitable hijack motion.
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But when students start to understand these things, they actually
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feel more in control of their learning.
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It's something that's super important.
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So here's a really great way of releasing those brain
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hormones. Look at that cat like Look at those eyes
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like auto.
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All sudden, you feel that flood of just feeling pure
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joy, knowing the brain it's really important.
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Do a little bit of research, teach the parts of
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the brains and help students understand how they actually are
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in control of their brain.
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There they have.
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The power is, Luke Skywalker said in Star Wars, being
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aware of the power, the power of your be aware
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of your power, my power, something to that effect.
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But look it up the great science saying, and I'm
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messing it up because my mega might be in hijacked