Some widely held ideas about the way children learn can lead educators and parents to adopt faulty teaching principles
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Tony Meehan's curator insight,
June 14, 2015 6:51 AM
As educators we have to embrace as many, proven-to-be-effective teaching strategies as possible in order to be able to respond to the multiple ways learners learn. Restricting ourselves to one tried and tested - usually decades old - strategy risks alienating many learners who are growing up in a society with immediate access to information. Educators need an understanding of latest developments in cognitive psychology and neuroscience to inform just how we learn and from there what strategies to employ to meet the learning needs of all learners in our charge. |
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There's a tendency to make huge leaps from scientific research to claims in brain-based learning. This article debunks some myths.
I especially like the attention paid to the fact that learning styles cannot be substantiated by research. A lot of time and effort is wasted in narrowing down students' learning styles when it is best to use a variety anyway.