Brain Based Education: Fad or Breakthrough
I’ve not been very linear today. What started out as a quick check to see what’s happening at NECC turned into a session on brain based education.
I’ve alway been a bit skeptical about brain based education. I think the brain research that’s going on is great and needs to continue it’s just that most of the links people make when they apply it to classroom practice are not links so much as they are leaps of faith. Often, they use a “brain study” to suggest some kind of classroom practice that we already know to be good. We don’t need a “brain study” to tell us that.
Here’s a video by Dr. Daniel Willingham who teaches at the University of Virginia. He sums things up much better than I do.
Brain based education: Fad or breakthrough–high quality
Here are the links I followed to get to the video and a link to Dr. Willingham’s website.
