Last night's keynote featured Dr. John Medina and his book called "Brain Rules." A micro-molecular biologist, Dr. Medina was quite fascinating and engaging with his theory on how the brain functions in relation to education. Some findings ...One of the 5 natural functions of the brain is survival and, surprisingly, not learning.
Another natural function is constant motion; which means more gym and less in-class learning. Dr. Medina proposes schools get gym uniforms and intersperse learning in between-active-aerobic sessions (if it were up to him). Schools today have it reversed.
Aerobic exercise has been proven to increase text scores by leaps and bounds ... he says 102%.
For education to work, students must have created a database of learning (i.e. this is the memorizing portion, like knowing your multiplication facts).
Once the foundational database has been acquired, students can create future learning. So, if multiplication facts are not learned, students cannot learn algebra.
If you're interested for more information, check out his book, "Brain Rules." What are your thoughts?
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