Tag: Brain Fitness

  • Told you so! Tutoring is a win-win for tutors, grade-school kids

    As a volunteer JABA FISH tutor at Jackson-Via Elementary School, I have mentioned several times  my belief that tutoring  provides significant health and brain benefits – for the tutor as well as for the students! Here is some proof coming out of Experience Corps, a program operating in 22 cities nationwide that trains volunteers over…

  • Lifelong Learning – One way to keep your memory sharp

    I was marveling this week at the plethora of memory building books displayed in the bookstore.  It sure looks like a hot topic!  Here are some ideas from Harvard Health Publications: 7 ways to keep your memory sharp at any age As we grow older, we all start to notice some changes in our ability…

  • Online learning for seniors? Yes!

    As I read the paper this morning I was reminded of my success with a “blended” online course several years ago.  I had taught Biochemical Nutrition, a course for pre-nursing students, for about eight years before I tried the blended approach.  BIO 204 was a three-semester-hour course, but for the blended course the students came…

  • Serving Your Community Benefits Your Brain – from Tufts Health & Nutrition Letter

    As a JABA FISH volunteer at Jackson-Via Elementary School in Charlottesville, I can agree with the “cobweb removal” statement!  Helping an ESL student with math is certainly a brain fitness exercise  — and I have to say that I am learning “strategies” for solving word problems that I had never thought of before. I encourage…

  • 10 Steps to Lifelong Learning – Right Here in Charlottesville!

    We are so fortunate to have many, many opportunities for lifelong learning right here in the Charlottesville area! As I read through the post quoted below I thought about my venture into blogging for seniors.  Since I have an IT/Web background, I volunteered to sponsor an after-school computer club at Jackson-Via Elementary School.  Having read…

  • Internet use ‘good for the brain’

    I have been an enthusiastic web proponent since my first webmaster job in 1996.   I had expected that the web would look like TV, and  it was a surprise to see that it was really just a lot of text files with just an occasional picture thrown in.  But what access to information!  I was…