Digital Learning Commons: 21st Century Skillis: Thinking Deeply

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Changing Brains Video segments about development of the human brain based on experience. Nine segments describe the brain systems important in: vision, hearing, motor skills, attention, language, reading, math, music, and emotions and learning.
After Watching This Video Your Brain Will Never Be the Same In a classic research-based TEDx Talk, Dr. Lara Boyd describes how neuroplasticity gives you the power to shape the brain you want. Recorded at TEDxVancouver at Rogers Arena on November 14, 2015.
How Schools Use Brain Science to Help Traumatized Kids Learn

Core Thinking Routines These are the seven core thinking routines with tips on how to use them.
Thinking Routines Video Explanation of the value of teaching thinking routines.
Kids Are the Experts: Boston Public Schools During the 2011-12 school year, 30 Boston Public School early childhood teachers and eight Head Start teachers took a course called Making Learning Visible: Kids are the Experts! The teachers explored how to help children recognize and communicate to others their areas of expertise through words, images, and demonstrations. This short film follows the process of making how-to books and other products in two classrooms at the Gardner Pilot Academy. - See more at: http://www.pz.harvard.edu/resources/kids-are-the-experts-making-learning-visible-in-boston-public-schools#sthash.lnleXk1s.dpuf
Making Learning Visible-Harvard Project Zero Creating strong learning cultures in schools using documentation as a tool to deepen and extend learning. - See more at: http://www.pz.harvard.edu/projects/making-learning-visible#sthash.H7SabO4V.dpuf
Mapping the City of Reggio Video of a collaborative effort of some boys making a map of their city.