Bøger af Hector Ruiz Martin

Go beyond personal experience and discover scientific principles that will elevate your teaching The international bestseller How Do We Learn? decodes years of cognitive science research into actionable strategies for K-12 teachers, curricula designers, and administrators. You'll discover how classic and emerging findings can transform pedagogy by pointing at practices that take advantage of the innate structures of the human brain. Written in an easy-to-understand style, this book delves into the cognitive mechanisms that govern learning and memory. You'll also discover the socioemotional factors that influence students' motivation and performance. Researchers have investigated key teaching methods such as feedback and evaluation to identify how school environments influence self-motivation to learn. In this book, Héctor Ruiz Martín unites scientific principles with personal engagement, helping teachers ensure that students can thrive in the classroom and beyond. Learn how students learn so you can help them achieve academic success Get practical tips and strategies for aligning your teaching with scientific evidence Gain fascinating insights into the human mind and discover how to promote student achievement through socioemotional engagement Help students feel motivated and achieve at their best How Do We Learn? offers rigorous scientific insights--explained in accessible terms and translated into actionable steps that K-12 teachers in all disciplines can put into practice right away.

Did you know that science has revealed what actions and circumstances make your brain learn more effectively?In this book, a scientist explains in a simple and very entertaining way how your brain learns and what you can do to take advantage of its full potential.Among other things, you will find out that:- Both people who are good at learning and those who are not can improve their performance if they use the right learning strategies: those that align with the way the brain learns best!- Most students do not know these strategies and those who spontaneously develop them gain a huge advantage without even realizing it.- Your brain is much more powerful than you realize in terms of its ability to learn. Every time you learn something, your brain changes its structure!When you learn about how the brain learns, you learn to learn!

Los secretos de la memoria Las historias humanas que revelaron qué es y cómo funciona la memoria Un viaje por los múltiples secretos de la memoria, con el experto en neurociencia y psicología cognitiva Héctor Ruiz Martín. Este libro nos adentra en una de las aventuras científicas más fascinantes en nuestro afán por descubrir quiénes somos, y lo hace a través de las historias humanas extraordinarias que nos han revelado las virtudes y los defectos de nuestro don más preciado: la memoria. Por sus páginas transitan algunos de los casos reales que han ayudado a los científicos a comprender el potencial y las limitaciones de nuestra capacidad para atesorar y rememorar el pasado, adquirir conocimientos, desarrollar habilidades, adoptar hábitos y, en definitiva, construir nuestra identidad. Porque... ¿qué haríamos sin nuestra memoria? ¿Qué seríamos si no pudiéramos mirar hacia atrás ni hacia delante en nuestras vidas? Héctor Ruiz Martín nos enseña que la memoria es la habilidad para aprender, y de su mano vemos cómo se desarrolla y organiza, qué factores influyen en ella y por qué nos falla en tantas ocasiones. Este viaje único nos recuerda que gracias a nuestros recuerdos todos somos más libres. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION The human stories that revealed what memory is and how it works. A voyage through memory's many secrets, alongside neuroscience and cognitive psychology expert Héctor Ruiz Martín. This book plunges us into one of the most fascinating scientific adventures in our eagerness to uncover who we are, and does so through extraordinary human stories that have revealed the strengths and weaknesses of our most precious gift--memory. Within these pages we travel through some real cases that have helped scientists understand the potential and limitations of our ability to treasure and reminisce the past, acquire knowledge, develop skills, adopt habits, and most definitely build our own identity. Because... what would we do without our memories? Who would we be if we couldn't look back and forth at our lives? Héctor Ruiz Martín tells us that memory is the ability to learn, and with him as our guide we see how memory is developed and organized, which factors influence it, and why it fails us on so many occasions. This unique journey reminds us that, because of our memories, we are freer.