Ok guys, 
This conference is on the up and up. It was started by a friend of mine--that may not mean much to you, though. 
I think, but have to look, that the Board has the names of scientists and educators who know about these topics. I just read the stuff on IQ that Nora mentioned, and I don't like the title--measurements of IQ have been rising over the last century, so I am not sure what that title is about. 


Check the names of the people presenting and google them 


Andrea 


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nora Chahbazi" <ooprc at comcast.net> 
To: Learningdisabilities at nifl.gov 
Sent: Wednesday, November 4, 2009 12:52:39 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern 
Subject: [LearningDisabilities 4246] Brain research in education 


I just received a brochure for a conference titled 'Smarter Brains: Using Brain Rearch to Raise IQ and Achievement' at the 25th Learning and the Brain Conference in Sanfrisco in Feb, 2001. Some of the workshop titles are" Neurointelligence and Education: Is it Time to Require Students to have a Brain Scan?" and 'What Neuroscience can teach us about Teaching' - along with many others. This is a perfect example of the feeling of confusion and frustration by those of us trying to teach reading or anything else! There has just been a disdcussion on this list about how neuroscience and education are not connected and then I am exposed to this conference that has 3 days of educating educators in the power of neuroscience in education. How does one choose who to believe? Maybe neuroscience in education is akin to snake oil, maybe it is the best thing since sliced bread. How would someone decipher the truth from 2 opposite camps proclaiming 'the truth'. I have found this phenomena to be a source of frustration throughout my journey of learning how to teach reading. Many research studies come to totally opposite conclusions about what is great and what is horrible amd damaging.(For example: Whole language is the answer! Phonics is the answer!......Teach them to memorize the words and the book to foster comprehension! They must have significant repetition/drill in phonemic awareness and phonics before ever reading a book!,.... Look at the picture to get meaning! Do not look at the picture; we don't read pictures! ..... Teach the phonics rules in order to read the words! Don't teach phonics rules because they are developmentally inappropriate and slow you down!..... You must learn the letter names to read! You do not use the letter names in reading!....and on an on) leaving the consumer to scratch their head and get mired in the confusion of all this conflicting information. Who does one believe? In the meantime, the numbers of poor/non readers of every age continue to eacalate. How do those on this list deal with this?! 
Thanks, 
Nora 



Nora Chahbazi, President 
EBLI Evidence-Based Literacy Instruction 
Ounce of Prevention Reading Center 
www.ebli.org 
810.732.4810 
fax 810.732.0366 

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