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A new book by an MIT professor is full of surprising truths about how the brain works.
Posted by EdSurge HigherEd on Thursday, December 24, 2020
a new book called “Grasp: The Science Transforming How We Learn.”
“Our approach to teaching is based on the assumption that the teacher has a pen and the student’s brain is a sheet of paper. That’s actually wrong,”
Forgetting is a key strength of the brain, even though it has to be fought against by teachers, he says. My note: why is this a revelation? My psychology professor in the 80s was drilling in us: one, who does not forget, does not remember.
professors need to space out lessons and reteach important material at intervals, he adds, to get past the tendency to forget. My note: that also has been discussed extensively in the past two decades: e.g. the chunk theory, microlearning etc: https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=chunk+theory
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more on the brain and education in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=brain