I learned my first class in Chicago in 1994,
I was not ready, I was scared to death,
I spoke with some professors about this,
They said, “Be organized.”
So I attended a detailed approach,
I was full of everything you might imagine,
All the facts, initial presentations and public views of what I will do,
They all knew what happened, and what would have happened,
And where I was heading.
The students came to the classroom, and took notes,
They shook their heads,
I was eager to see assessments at the end of the semester.
To a large extent, the whole class was present.
They were unanimous in their sense of me.
One assessment said:
“Mark Pitzer is a wonderful professor.
Just like Millie Vanilli are great singers. “
(Laughter)
In 1994, this sudden blow to the solar plexus,
When I finally got ready, I came up with a strategy,
A two-part strategy.
The first strategy
Is to sneak into the ranks of the best professors on campus,
Who are students,
It was clear, and very clearly,
That these professors were great storytellers.
The second part of my strategy was: two or three times a week
For several years thereafter,
I was going to a nighttime improvisation show
At the Chicago Theater of Secundy City.
She listened to the young Tina Fei, the young Steve Kolbert,
These young people who are able to draw your attention,
And keep you fascinated.
I could not do that even in my best days on the planet,
But I noticed that they did not use or need these advanced visualizations.
They were on a theater painted black,
They were able to ignite the imagination of all present.
So, I raced as far as I could, stolen what I could,
I added him to my lectures.
And my assessments began to creep up from the Manele Vannelli area,
Or whatever.
But the test of credibility, to me at least, was my daughter Amerson-
There is precisely, in fact.
She sat in my lap at the age of three,
And I told her about the brain.
Then she turned to me in the middle of my words,
I smiled, and put her little angelic hand on my mouth,
She said,
“Dad, all your words make me want to defecate!”
(Laughter)
So, I noticed that I was very far from being a good professor,
I did not notice that,
Secondly, I had to be brief.
(Laughter)
This was when I went to my field of study,
Behavioral neuroscience.
For centuries, scientists and their psychologists were studying
How people learn animals, the best ways to make
These incentives to long-term memory.
For decades, neuroscientists analyze anatomy
And brain physiology,
And how to change the brain physically during learning.
Both of these groups were discovered
That there are different circuits in the brain,
Different brain neural networks,
Different types of cells that you learn.
As a professor, I used one.
I used only one circle, the Hysterectomy.
Your hips are in the left side of your cerebral cortex
And your hips are on the right side of your cerebral cortex.
I was cramming my disciples in this circle.
I was telling this to Amerson, she said, “Hippocampus,
“It seems to me like the place where the hippo goes to the university.”
Hippocampus, certainly.
I said, “Genius!
She told me the same day
Hummus is made from hummingbirds.
(Laughter)
I have Louis Black at my house.
(Laughter)
Your hips.
Your hips are like the office that is in your home,
Or at school, at work,
In the morning, it is relatively net,
But there are billions of nerve impulses that flow every day,
From climate, to the latest news,
To e-mail, to conversations you make, to random facts,
My son Cole told me there were three golf balls
on the moon.
All these shall be filled.
But they do not develop until the fullness is completed
Instead at night, when you sleep, during a slow wave sleep and rapid eye movement,
The information in your clip, in your office, is transmitted.
Most of them move to garbage.
But some of them go into long-term storage.
Some go to the files room in your mind,
To the cortex of the brain,
This outer bark, these sixteen billion nerve cells you have in your brain.
If as a teacher, do not want your objects there,
Want your items here,
In the file room so you can eat it tomorrow.
Your students can wrestle with them next week or year
Or who knows when.
So, how do I increase the likelihood that this information will go there?
They are things we know,
It is as if information flows inward,
It is the added passion for it.
All these pieces of information are classified according to how prominent you are
Or being an adaptive member.
It’s like a review, in fact.
You know, your conversations about the weather
Or replacement,
All of these milestones are about your replacement that you have made 100 times,
Which may not get any stars at all or maybe a single star.
But some of them deserve five stars.
Such as the mail you received
About the unique financial opportunity of that Nigerian prince?
(Laughter)
Well, as professors, it’s about how to get them, right?
It’s how it tastes, how passion is added to it.
But this has a long-term physiological effect
About whether she was moving there,
Or how to move to the file room.
OK?
My family moved from Chicago to Iowa,
I do not know if you know this,
But in Iowa, when you move there, you have to do three things:
You’ll need to get new license plates for your vehicle,
You have to get a good driver’s license,
You have to join the bowling team.
(Laughter)
I was told it was a state law.
So we did,
Kuna together team bowling, this team was very good.
We had PhDs, young professors,
and what,
We beat almost all, except …
A scarf and a quality bob brakes.
These people, we may challenge each other hard, and crush us!
We killed this, for two reasons:
One, because they were, as it is said these days,
The masters of Atiqun,
They were in their 80s, over eighty, under eighty, often,
And two, they were drunk!
(Laughter)
But they were picking up those balls, which weighs sixteen pounds,
And slowly walk to the line, and carry them up,
Their brains harmonize,
They move with precision and agility
Those that fit Olympic gymnast,
The ball was spinning in a clear, curved path
Completely towards the goal,
They score a goal behind a goal, behind a goal,
We cry, cry, and cry.
Why?
Because of their base nodes and cerebellum.
Base nodes –
Yes, you know it!
The basal ganglia in the left and right cerebellum,
These formidable configurations and circuits,
Your brain is also at the back of your mind.
Both are included in all physical movements.
While practicing, the basal ganglia and cerebellum
They make you better, right?
If you purchased a new phone or a new app,
You learn the song of Billy Joel on the piano,
Trying to open a pack of Ketchup without smudging yourself with it,
Improve for the better, better and better,
And a quality Bob’s brakes and brakes that worked on engine programs
Since Roosevelt,
Since Roosevelt’s first state.
As a professor, what do you do?
We paint.
In my class, everything is on the board.
I draw everything, and in real time, everyone draws.
There is nothing they might take from the Internet,
There is nothing I will give them.
I pull the base nodes and their cerebellum –
Second Circuit,
A second strong educational circle beside the hippocampus.
Other:
If I can pull your brain, I may show you –
No, I can not show you.
If you drag the brain of the person sitting on your side,
I may show you that there is, of course
Lots of real estate out there. Which is your visual cortex.
Lots of them.
It is not only related to your cognitive awareness
Faces, red color, touch, movement, and so on,
But also, this file room for all visual things, right?
You know the pictures are easy to remember.
This has been known for thousands of years.
This is the basis of Cicero Memory Palace.
Mark Twain used these visual concepts to remember his lectures
As long as it works.
So heroes memory contests
They can remember the correct order of the packages of cards –
Dozens of packages of switched cards – by taking groups of them
And turn them into clear brain images.
They can remember that efficiently and effectively.
Two years ago, I returned to Chicago,
I walk in Michigan Street,
I met one of the professors whom I stole from them –
I was sneaking into another row –
Dr.. David and Richter, and his wife, walk down Michigan Street.
I was a bit scared about walking to it
To him he retired early because his memory betrayed him.
But anyway, I had to talk to him.
“Dr. Warchaffeter, my name is …”
David looked up and said, “Mark Beetzer.”
This shocked me.
He began speaking, almost halfway through,
He stopped and said, “Maybe you’re learning, maybe not,
But I retired early because my memory was weakening. “
I said, “I knew that.”
And he said,
“Almost a year and a half later, in the northern part of Chicago,
I found this school.
And taught me how to turn names, ideas and dates,
To clear visuals, I remember everything! “
I said, “Dave is fantastic!
He said: “I mention your name because for several months,
I imagined this magic pen on a grill focus –
“Mark.” “Bit” and added “button.” And here you are “
(Laughter)
I said, “This is amazing!
But the school is in the northern part
I mean, whether it’s Debol or Northwestern? “
He looked at me and said,
“The school in the northern part of Chicago …
(Laughter)
What is the name of the school? “
He said, “There is a plant,
There is a sticky plant that you give to people.
(Cursed) there are thorns on them, and give them to people.
It’s a rose, sometimes red. “
I said, “You’re talking about a red rose, right?”
He said: “A rose is Jury.”
He stopped and turned to his wife.
He said, “Rose, what is the name of the school that I go to?”
(Laughter)
Your mind is like a pattern detector.
Always looking for patterns to use
So you can predict the future,
The next thing that might happen.
Jokes take advantage of mechanism monitoring patterns.
A man goes to the bar and sits and turns to the bars of the bar
“Hello, can I get whiskey?” He says.
The bar’s legs say …
The joke comes out of the left part.
It is true and logical, but it is surprising.
Events such as these, circumstances such as these,
Exciting for us.
We love them,
That’s why there’s a big, bright city in the Nevada desert.
This is what makes you laugh with your TV during the March madness.
This is why you frequently check your phone to see a response
On your last post on Facebook.
Though this is better than you expected, WoW.
This is when you jump off your shoes.
When your team score a goal
Or score a triple point at the beep,
This is the power of “maybe”
Power of the Lord,
Maybe we’ll win, maybe not.
Maybe he will sing, maybe not.
The power of “perhaps”
But, Wolfermann Schultz,
A neuroscientist studies these circuits in the brain
At the University of Copenhagen,
Say it is not all fun and games
It is, once again, another educational district,
A very complex educational department.
To give you an example.
I have a Ford Focus 2004.
Cut 186,000 miles,
It works about 40% of the time.
(Laughter)
I put the key in the engine, like I go to Vegas, right?
When I work, I buy drinks for everyone!
But more than Hamas, “Will it work?”
Or a joy to operate.
If it actually works,
My mind is always looking for information, transit information:
Why did you work today, and did not work yesterday?
Have you pressed the throttle?
Did you hear her cry?
Was it the fuel compressor that was cleaned?
Or is the atmosphere today warmer, than it was?
It is an educational department.
The power of “maybe.”
As a professor, how do you do it?
Pupils are class experts,
Of course I do not help them.
To make this spontaneous, feel it off the cuff,
You can not give them detailed approaches.
You can not say, “Well, today’s goal is that.”
I want to keep them fed.
In my desk, on the wall,
There is a red box.
This red box, look at it when the lights are turned off
I go to class.
Remember that the brain in which several circles learn.
So, when I stand off the chalkboard
I need to remember that I offer a good collection of stories
Lots of facts, some similarities, and some metaphors
I want to present this with the right amount of enthusiasm
Not a little, not much,
But it looks like I’m giving this gift, not the hard job
Will draw, will attract the base nodes,
I will draw your cerebellum.
What is not clear or what is new. Or what is mysterious
We will turn it into a clear mental picture,
We will draw this, too.
Finally, I want to encourage or tone down the sense of spontaneity.
If I can, I can attract several learning circles,
Perhaps I can build this base of ideas and knowledge,
The latest a lot of curiosity, in the hope that it will continue,
Three golf balls on the moon.
Thank.
(clap)
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