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edited by Pina Fico, Palma Caiazza primary
school teachers, and prof. Paolo
Manzelli Director of the Educational Research
Laboratory of the University of Florence (Italy)
Coord. Prog. Qualità dott..Angela Orabona
Ufficio Scolastico Regionale per la Campania
PRIMARY SCHOOL in GRUMO NEVANO (a little Town
near NEAPLES, ITALY)
HEADMASTER Mr. ERNESTO SALERNO
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http//www.circolodidattico-grumonevano.it
BRAINLANDING
aims


to underline the cognitive strategies to
learn in a creative way,  filtering stimuli and
method of rote-learning, that influence the brain
plasticity.
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PROJECT BRAINLANDING OBJECTIVES BRAINLANDING
is a Project of a Primary school in Grumo Nevano
(Neaples). It works for improving creativeness in
the primary school system, favouring interest in
living sciences and trying to retain a spirit of
discovery. It aims to open the pupils minds to a
divergent thinking beyond the limited mechanical
principles of science understanding and the
habitual persectives of traditional science
instruction on problem solving. Pupils learn how
to use at the best their convergent skills (Left
Brain) and also about the Mirror Neurons
interactivity, in order to put such brain
abilities into concrete solutions.
Creativeness is indeed focused on understanding
before the problem solving you have to
recognize the problem posing so that the
utilization of all brain functions can help the
growth of the pupils intelligence, and also the
adults one since they learn about the Life
Sciences, including Neurology advanced knowledge,
through a childlike curiosity.
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COGNITIVE RELEVANCE
of the BRAINLANDING Project
Free will can be an illusion, because human
freedom need a very high level of  consciousness.
If a man/woman   will  have more freedom in
his/her mind, he/she will be responsible for
proper actions. The real freedom of the proper
thought can be easily achieved through the
knowledge of the brain functioning. At this
point it will be useful to remember that the
scientist Gordon Shaw  (http//www.mindinstitute.n
et/MIND3/research/research.php ) from the fNMR
Brain Imagin techniques demonstrated that the
Left Brain Hemisphere (LBS) is more functional to
rhythms time analysis, while the Right Brain
Hemisphere (RBS)  is more perceptive to the
harmonic space integration.On the light of such
brain discoveries it is possible to see how the
school traditional teaching process places an
overwhelming
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emphasis  on the convergent analytical brain
functioning through a method of problem
solving, while the brain creativeness needs to
see at the same time how to overcome the
problems and how to solve them. Therefore pupils
need to exercise with a proper balance both the
brain functioning, i.e. of the Convergent (LBH)
and Divergent (RBH) functional  types. The
traditional school attention at the problem
solving can indeed generate an inhibition of the
complemented functioning of the brain right
hemisphere. Today the continuous society changes
need a better understanding of brains
complemented functioning, so that unconventional
teaching methods need to be open to a conscious
knowledge of brain potentiality. Thats the
essence of BRAINLANDING, a project realized in
an integrated e-learning cooperation between the
LRE/EGOCREANET of the University of Florence and
the Primary School of Grumo Nevano (Neaples) in
Italy.    
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COME IN, BRAIN!
The BRAIN really works   through LEARNING. The
entire process cannot be shown, but the routes
are well structured  to make the claim to
memories easier, and if they are repetitive they
cause a conditioning in everyones mind.
The cultural
identity of a person is a generator of
comparisons and sharing.
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This project has already developed
1-The Big Brains track 2-The Big Brains Map

3-Brain and Music


4-The fantastic world of Brainlanding

5-Photographilandia in the
world of Brainlanding
6-The Brains time

7-Information and Brain 8-Mother
Brain and her two little Brains 9-The yearbook of
5B (teachers Vergara-Maisto) 10-Brainlandingrap
(ins.Mg.Cristiano)
Prof. PAOLO MANZELLI from his scientific-technolog
ical laboratory held over our children with his
enthusiasm.
He always says to us
TIME IS AN INFORMATION GOING TOWARDS THE FUTURE
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A tour of experience in the world of
BRAINLANDING
Ins.Pina Fico
Prof. PAOLO MANZELLI LRE
ego-CreaNET University of Florence (Italy)
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Welcome to the CREATIVE SYSTEM WORKSHOP OF
ATTENTION

Follow the BIG BRAINS MAP
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The little tourists are visiting the centre
Of Neuro-biotic ATTENTION
In the house of BIG BRAIN
lives the ATTENTION, that causes a great
curiosity.
Children follow then
the right track and
above all try to understand straightaway!
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Its the Brain to manipulate
everything even the
attention process.It works indeed
on its system of
REACTION-ACTION Lets find out how

Its really necessary to know this world in
detail !
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Management of the Big Brain
Information start the ATTENTION but they are
immediately caught by the brain.
Lets see how
In the house of ATTENTION
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On a trip toDown-Top
Information data go on a path called
Down-Top. The Basal Ganglia, made of grey matter,
deal with physical information .

They convey everything to the
ATTENTION
through a bundle of nerves .
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From the outside
The ATTENTION has
got its supplemented centre
in the area where the eyes meet with the nose.


From the inside of the skull
The ATTENTION
is between the upper cerebral
hemispheres, where reasoning and emotions work.
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From the world of INFORMATION

• Data, after reaching the centre of the ATTENTION,
  are under the sensory and emotional control of
  the THALAMUS.
• Now there are two tracks
• The track to INFORMATION going towards the upper
  cerebral hemispheres
• The track to ATTENTION that restrains itself .

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In this case, the stalked
pontine core of the
Tegmanto, put as a roof on the basal Ganglia,
turns off the stimulus and there is the all
clear signal.
When information
does not need any
more reflection
there is no creativeness.
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If the circuit of ATTENTION is used in an
inappropriate way
you get a short circuit
all our thinking system is blocked
REASONING runs out
In the area of the upper cerebral hemispheres
creativeness does not develop
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• At school
• if the attention is blocked and restrained,
• if you get on only with rote-learning
• the reflection system collapses

Habit phenomenon
the school has to support creativeness
In a class working with an open circuit of the
ATTENTION SYSTEM, REASONING will not crash, on
the contrary, Big Brain will be empowered.
There is so a change in our reality its the
EUROPEAN SOCIETY of ECONOMY of the KNOWDLEDGE
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The trip is over and the INFORMATION you received
are sweet SOUVENIRS from the ATTENTION WORKSHOP
GOODBYE!!! We are the Band of
BIG BRAINS
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The Big Brains track
From the project BRAINLANDING
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The Big Brains track
For Primary School Classes 123
Circolo didattico Pascoli
Grumo Nevano (NA)
Ins..PINA FICO
School is a very special place if It goes round
the world of BRAINLANDING
We live happily In a tiny school Come with us to
discover its marvels!
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Here it is a loving
PROJECTfrom a school aiming to be
perfect
Among classrooms, yards and flowerbeds there is a
great laboratory It is the control room, It is
the big brains room
On tiptoes we get in, On tiptoes we sit
down. This is the world we are loking for, its
the kingdom of the little computers, The dream of
every children.
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EHI YOU do you want to become a BIG BRAIN?!?
FOLLOW THE NEW TRACK
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BRAIN is mysterious but it can organize your
life Because it adapts itself to the world
changes You are different from a long time ago
child and do you know why?????? Prof. Manzelli
from the University of Florence says that the
brain structure has changed ,
its always running behind its own time
. When it cannot answer to all your questions It
makes you look for the MECHANICAL LITTLE BRAIN.
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The history of MECHANICAL LITTLE BRAIN
Once upon a time, in a special kingdom called
ltltNEW TECHNOLOGIESgtgt, there was a pile of
irons. In the laboratory there were many
operators, technicians, scientists One looked,
one thought, another one touched One spoke, one
wrote, another one formulated They put all the
pieces together Assembled everything perfectly

until a click of joy!!!!!! shook

all the experts It was born! LITTLE
BRAIN was born In the nursery of the

baby-computers!
CLIC
CERVELLINO
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This is the history of PERFECT BRAIN and of
MECHANICAL LITTLE BRAIN
They meet in a particular moment in the
multimedia hall. HELLO!- BRAIN says CLICK!!!-
LITTLE BRAIN answers Only a second andhere it
is! It is nice to communicate, So many
information to get and give, spending some time
together To click, to print, to play They
never get tired to be together!
LETS GO TOWARDS
TECHNOLOGICAL FUTURE
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They hold hands, a tender FRIENDSHIP was
born. One is necessary to the other one. Nobody
can keep them apart . Days go by, months fly
away, the year slides quickly and the magic box
of the PERFECT BRAIN fills up more and more. By
the end of June it is filled with the letters
of the alphabet, whimsical
words, coloured thoughts, numbers full of value,
delicious lectures, astonishing images
yet Only one has got a HEART
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In the school of BRAINLANDING they tell a story
to make us realize that life is beautiful! The
brain can cry and sleep , It can laugh and be
happy, can think and act.
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OUR BRAIN at the beginning is a tiny little thing
, its empty, its not ready yet but.
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as
a big box it fills up more and more everyday
.Then it begins to explore
until nothing else can stop it.
Its memory is a store-room filling

with many wonders. There is a
bit of everything!.

You can
even find the first memory A place, a perfume,
a noise, An image, a flower.
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OUR BRAIN is a very special engine ?it has got
your eyes to look at, your ears to listen
to, your little nose to smell, your tongue to
taste, Your hands to touch But OUR BRAIN Wants
only and always to think!
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OPEN THE MEMORIES BOX AND YOULL FIND OUT
oh wat a wonder! ITS MY
LIFE! This box is precious!
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A LONG TIME AGO

• They are all here!!!
• FARAWAY MEMORIES
• RECENT MEMORIES
• MEMORIES OF LITTLE EVENTS

A SHORT TIME AGO
PARTICULAR MOMENTS
This is the memory that helps the brain to
remember. Magic formulas click
you can live those moments again,
you can jump in the TIME
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In the BIG BRAINS house special lights turn on
to activate the world of INFORMATION in order to
get news
SENSES switch on The PAST IMAGES can be seen
again EMOTIONS can be lived again,
JOYS and FEARS
CLOSE YOUR EYES so you can see it ALL again!
It looks like a MAGIC but its only the work of
a PERFECT MACHINE!
In the world of BRAINLANDING there is a workshop
of PHOTOGRAPHILANDIA . In every moment of the day
you can take PICTURES.
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BRAIN is always very hungry it eats
INFORMATIONcoming from the outside world
Its often full up, it
has got a swollen belly, and
at school sometimes does not win.
What a pity !!!
The poor thing is bombarded with so many news and
nobody understands it!
TOO MANY INFORMATION LITTLE KNOWLEDGE
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School must do something! It has
to give order to all the news in our minds!
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The child going to school before you had a book,
a dictionary, an encyclopedia not always up to
date. His brain WENT on his own, with nobodys
help always touring the world.
Nowadays you are a special pupil the world gets
to you with a click! And here
it is! Uuhhhh how many information, how many
news and what nonsense! Oh! What a confusion!
Someone has to do something ,your head can
explode. red light goes off on the track?stop!
Its time to go to school!

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School puts everything in its own place. Teachers
say to everyone -stop with the bore! Stop with
the yawnings! Its time to discover the
childrens world!
The new QUESTIONS,
the new THEORIES ,

the new CERTAINTIES
come from prof. PAOLO
MANZELLI, that from his laboratory EGOCREANET
started our curiosity and
pulled out of our bodily box an extraordinary
THINKING BRAIN!
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THE MAIN CHARACTERS OF A NEVER ENDING STORY
Ci presentiamo   siamo i due Cervellini e viviamo
nel grembo della mamma...
Manzellis thought It is well known that man,
the speaking being above all others, developed a
prominence of the left brain hemisphere.
Nevertheless his two brain HEMISPHERES have to
work together, in order to express also the
intuitive capacities of the right hemisphere.
The closed and limited logic is over. And here
it comes Brain-landing.
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   In my womb live the twins Blue little Brain
  and Pink Little Brain  looking for a new
knowledge.
Here they are my Little Brains! They are the
same for genetics but very different indeed and
their brain activities are different too.
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Kids learn very quickly, the young have more
creative capacities, the adults experience,
instead, a fall in their capacities.  
On the grounds of science, the potential of the
childrens brain is definitely superior
than that of the adults,
and a superficial factual knowledge
learning  causes a passive taking on and a
conditioning of the cognitive development.
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Teachers, through the learning, recognize the
young intellectual capacities and set them off,
because they know that a conscious learning helps
the forming of their character.
All the connections with the world   have to
deepen to better understand the meaning of
existence and of becoming a MAN in the UNIVERSE.
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Our SCHOOL NEWS allow our pupils to manage the
outside world in a creative way.
Mass media can greatly condition our minds, we
can loose our critical ability the school task
is to improve the dialogue, the comparison and
the sharing of interactive knowledge.
YOUNG REPORTERS on a special mission
 SPECIAL EDITION ltltBRAINLANDING in the
world...gtgt On the schedule there are interviews
to prof.MANZELLI and all pedagogistionline
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Award for merit

Coord.Prog.Qualità dott.Angela Orabona Ufficio
Scolastico Regionale per la Campania
PRIZE
Project
BRAINLANDING

School Year
In collaboration with


Paolo

Manzelli
PROF


2004-05
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BRAINLANDING
PRIMARY SCHOOL
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