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What should we be teaching? This question received significant attention at the November 2011 Learning and the Brain Conference in Boston. With the changes in our world and in our students, what should we, then, teach? The question reveals a consequential recognition: some of what we’ve taught and how we’ve been teaching it . . . → Read More: What should we be teaching? It seems contradictory. The brain seeks and sees patterns, but when asked to find patterns, many people become uneasy. (Shelley Carson suggests that up to 80% of people find this type of thinking “uncomfortable.”1) This conundrum is the result of effort. When the brain instantly sees a pattern, it seems like a new insight has . . . → Read More: Patterns: Learning, Thinking, Creating |
 
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