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Teachers!!!!!! SLEEP IS A BIOLOGICAL IMPERATIVE - segarama - 26-06-2006
June 26, 2006
Good Morning
Teachers [as should all] really understand the importance of sleep to learning and memory. If you can contribute to the importance of sleep, please feel free to contribute to this thread. I need to leave now and I will add some sleep needs and explain why it is a biological imperative. Please begin to contribute your thoughts as soon as possible so that I can get an idea of your interest.
There is a great tape recording on sleep from the Dana Center...retrieved today.. URL: http://www.dana.org/books/radiotv/ The audio tape is dated 2003.
Thank you
Rob
Teachers!!!!!! SLEEP IS A BIOLOGICAL IMPERATIVE - Christina - 26-06-2006
Thanks for bringing up this interesting topic Rob!
A recent study at the University of California in San Diego found that activity in certain parts of the brain, including the frontal lobe, was altered by sleep deprivation. Since the frontal lobe plays a role in processes that are critical for success in school, such as strategic planning, this could have important implications for education... Are early-morning classes leading to sleepy teenagers who make poor choices?
Read more about sleep and the brain at: http://sleepdisorders.about.com/cs/sleepdeprivation/a/brainsleep.htm
Cheers,
Christina
Teachers!!!!!! SLEEP IS A BIOLOGICAL IMPERATIVE - segarama - 30-06-2006
June 29, 2006
Good Evening
,I did know that sleep is important, but I did not realize how important the right kind of sleep really is!!!!!!! Retrieved from the internet today: Url: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=ISO-8859-1&q=cache:bvdb6ASBpIIJ:www.journalsleep.org/Editorials2004/Ed_270302.pdf+Sleep+Biological+Imperative
Url: http://www.ce-credit.com/articles/sleepteens.pdf
Be well and get some sleep, Teachers and administrators....Does your bus schedule run your school day??????
Rob
Teachers!!!!!! SLEEP IS A BIOLOGICAL IMPERATIVE - segarama - 09-07-2006
July 8, 2006
Good Late Evening
,After doing quite a bit of journal reading on the importance of sleep and it being a biological imperative, I am pretty well convinced that most of us really do not know the downside of lack of sleep and the physiology/biology of our own body. I retrieved a URL from the internet today regarding sleep: Culture and Biology....
Please enjoy reading:
URL: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=ISO-8859-1&q=cache:G5JCHP_oXm8J:www.kispi.unizh.ch/pf/Kinderspital/Medizin/AWE/Publikationen/Jenni_2005.pdf+Sleep+Biological+Imperative
URL: http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-8624.2006.00854.x
Sleep is critical and it will take sometime to relate it to the human biological imperative, but we will do it.
Be well,
Rob
Teachers!!!!!! SLEEP IS A BIOLOGICAL IMPERATIVE - Christina - 19-07-2006
New research from Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School and the University of Pennsylvania shows that sleep does not just passively protect memories, but rather, plays an active role in memory consolidation.
Press release: http://www.brighamandwomens.org/PressReleases/PressRelease.aspx?PageID=1347
Teachers!!!!!! SLEEP IS A BIOLOGICAL IMPERATIVE - Maulfry - 02-08-2006
Another interesting thread! I'm pasting some references her that I've already added to the thread on mathematics.
This relates to some reserach I have done with young children (4 - 6 years) concerning teacher 'modelling' - showing and explaining ways of rerpresenting some written mathematics. Children appear to understand and use new models and different ways of representing of written mathematics that a peer or adult has modelled, if they are not expected to use it immediatly(sometimes they draw on earlier models after an interval of weeks or months). In contrast, my evidence suggests that when young chidlden are expected to to use what they have just been shown, they experience considerable difficulty: in this context, any learning that takes place is very superficial..
The following references on the role of sleep in (processing) new learning (including visual discrimination) suggests brain-based evidence for my findings.
Stefan Gais, Werner Pilahl, Ulrich Wagner and Jan Born, (2000). 'Early Sleep triggers memory for early visual discrimination tasks', Nature Neureoscience 3, pp.1335 - 1339 (01 Dec 2000).
Bower, B. 'Certain memories may rest on a good sleep' http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/200000722/fob8.asp - but I have just checked this link and it is no longer there so don't have a date for it.
Stickgold, R., James, L. and Hobson, J.A. 'Visual discrimination leaning requires sleep after training'. Nature Neuroscience. Volume 3, Number 12 (December 2000), pp. 1237 - 1238.
Dr. Jan Born. Nature 427, pp. 352 - 355 (22 Jan, 2004).
Dr Carl Hunt of the National Centre on Sleep Disorders Research, believes that these recent studies on sleep and the brain are going to have 'potentially important results for children for school performance and for adults in terms of work performance (BBC News, 23 Jan, 2004).
Teachers!!!!!! SLEEP IS A BIOLOGICAL IMPERATIVE - segarama - 06-11-2006
:detective: sleep????
We have no idea how much our students rely upon a good night's sleep. Please take a look at the url retrieved today from the National Sleep Foundation. URL: http://www.sleepfoundation.org/doze/ Please look at the url retrieved 12/12/06......Url: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6WSS-4DF3JBV-D&_coverDate=09%2F30%2F2004&_alid=506775707&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_qd=1&_cdi=7054&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=8ceeb12dbcb450012e7dfd8f1f42fcbd
:yes:
URL: http://www.health.harvard.edu/press_releases/importance_of_sleep_and_health.htm
Rob