Michael Mendizza - Media and the Developing Brain

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Author, educator, documentary filmmaker, Michael Mendizza's work centers on the state of optimum learning and performance, what athletes call the Zone, researchers call Flow, and children call Play.

With Joseph Chilton Pearce, author of "The Crack in the Cosmic Egg," Michael co-authored "Magical Parent-Magical Child: The Optimum Learning Relationship." Founder of Touch the Future, a non-profit learning design center applying this model of optimum experience to parenting, coaching and education, Michael's projects offer insight into our cultural development, changing family structure, roots of violence, the nature of intelligence, and holistic learning.

In this presentation he explores the impact of television and computer imagery on imagination, critical and creative thinking.

An Inside Edge presentation - July 14, 2004.

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