Giving Compass' Take:

· EdSurge interviews Neuroscientist David Eagleman about brain training and plasticity and explains that children today have very different brains in comparison to generations before. Due to the high-tech digital age, the ways children take in information is vastly different than in the past and education should reflect that.

· In what ways is education different today when compared to previous generations? How can educators foster brain plasticity?  

· Learn why music class is a great way to balance individuals and relieve stress while also promoting brain plasticity across the life span.

Neuroscientist David Eagleman has a lot to say about the brain, and he’s done so in a lot of places. He’s written bestselling books, given a popular TED Talk, hosted a PBS series called “The Brain with David Eagleman” and teaches as an adjunct professor at Stanford. He’s also the founder of the Center for Science and Law, which studies how advances in brain science can shape the legal system (although his work also focuses on brain plasticity, or how we learn and absorb new information).

This week he gained yet another new audience: a room full of thousands of educators as the opening keynote for the ISTE 2018 conference in Chicago.

Before his talk, Eagleman shared a little of his thinking with EdSurge about brain training, what educators need to know about neuroscience and his favorite jaw-dropping fact about the space between our ears.

Read the full interview about the different brains of kids today by Stephen Noonoo at EdSurge.