Evaluate the claim that children's education should be brain-based.
What will be an ideal response?
There is evidence to support the statement that the cerebral cortex is divided into two halves, or hemispheres. Lateralization is the specialization of functions in one hemisphere of the brain or the other. The textbook points out that verbal processing, such as speech and grammar, takes place in the left hemisphere and that nonverbal processing, such as emotion, visual-spatial processing, and so on, takes place in the right hemisphere. However, some journalists have claimed that educators should turn to neuroscience to obtain answers to the question of how to teach children best. This statement seems to be too bold and based on speculation, not on what neuroscientists know about the brain. In fact, Sousa (1995) argues that connections between neuroscience and terms such as left-brained or right-brained are incorrectly made. Fischer and Immordino-Yang (2008) argue that most of what is called "brain-based education" today has no grounding at all in brain or cognitive science. However, important information is being derived from educational neuroscientific research, such as brain imaging, that can help us learn how students learn to read and what methods can be used to improve their learning.
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Discuss the four factors judges use to resolve fair use disputes.
What will be an ideal response?
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