Psychology professor teaches Metcalf students about perception and the brain

Jeff Wagman, Ph.D., PSY presents a short course on perception and the brain to second graders at Thomas Metcalf School. Connor Wagman, wearing headphones, helps with the demonstration.

Jeff Wagman, Ph.D., PSY visited two classes of second-graders at Thomas Metcalf School February 7 to teach a short course on “Perception and the Brain.” Wagman exhibited a collection of MRI images and a model of a brain as part of the course. The students, who included Wagman’s son Connor, discussed the role of the

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Fed up with multi-tasking students?

On Tuesday, CTLT program staff attended a Student Engagement Techniques Faculty Workshop by Elizabeth Barkley along with 20+ ISU faculty members.  One of the comments that repeatedly came up in the workshop was that students nowadays are so distracted by their electronic gadgets and multitasking whenever they can that they are not paying attention in