Endangered Minds Why Children Dont Think And

Is today's fast-paced media culture creating a toxic environment for our children's brains?In this landmark, bestselling assessment tracing the roots of America's escalating crisis in education, Jane M. Healy, Ph.D., examines how television, video games, and other components of popular culture compromise our children's ability to concentrate and to absorb and analyze information. Drawing on neuropsychological research and an analysis of current educational practices, Healy presents in clear, understandable language:-- How growing brains arephysicallyshaped by experience-- Why television programs -- even supposedly educational shows likeSesame Street-- develop "habits of mind" that place children at a disadvantage in school-- Why increasing numbers of children are diagnosed with attention deficit disorder-- How parents and teachers can make a critical difference by making children good learners from the day they are born

Jane M. Healy, Ph.D., has been an educational psychologist and professional educator for more than thirty-five years, with experience as a classroom teacher, university professor, reading and learning specialist, and elementary school administrator. She won the Delta Kappa Gamma Society International Educator's Award for Endangered Minds. She is a parent and grandparent, and lives with her husband in Vail, Colorado.

Contents

Introduction
Preface

PART ONE: CHANGING BRAINS

CHAPTER 1: "Kids' Brains Must Be Different..."
CHAPTER 2: Neural Plasticity: Nature's Double-Edged Sword
CHAPTER 3: Malleable Minds-Environment Shapes Intelligence

PART TWO: LANGUAGE, FUZZY THINKING, AND THE LANGUISHING LEFT HEMISPHERE

CHAPTER 4: Who's Teaching the Children to Talk?
CHAPTER 5: Sagging Syntax, Sloppy Semantics, and Fuzzy Thinking
CHAPTER 6: Language Changes Brains

PART THREE: ATTENTION, LIFESTYLES, AND LEARNING DISABILITIES

CHAPTER 7: Learning Disabilities: Neural Wiring Goes to School
CHAPTER 8: Why Can't They Pay Attention?
CHAPTER 9: The Starving Executive

PART FOUR: CLASHING CULTURES

CHAPTER 10: TV, Video Games, and the Growing Brain
CHAPTER 11: Sesame Street and the Death of Reading
CHAPTER 12: "Disadvantaged" Brains

PART FIVE: MINDS OF THE FUTURE

CHAPTER 13: New Brains: New Schools?
CHAPTER 14: Teaching the New Generation to Think: Human and Computer Models at School and at Home
CHAPTER 15: Expanding Minds

Notes
Index
Reading Group Guide

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Endangered Minds Why Children Dont Think And What We Can Do About It

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