Wujec’s said that cognitive scientist are
finding that the brain isn’t seeing the world as it is but builds sets of
mental models after big “aha” moments. As a teaching, it is not only
fulfilling, but we strive to see students have their “light bulbs” go off of
understanding a concept. Vision is very dynamic, with the eye it uses the brain
to interpret and sort what is important, and what to store.The ventral stream
is responsible for recognition, which is the primary sense of learning
material. The dorsal recognizes the object in physical body space. Limbic
system is feelings, or emotions. These are essential in teaching to know how to
communicate and make what you teach count. Engaging students to be interactive
to create something that is within the material that is taught could be beneficial
to the student as Wujec says. Though vision is critical, other neural pathways
that have to do with touch or sound could be stimulated as well to have a
really positive effect, especially when it is done all at once. With more stimulations,
the brain is using more connections to process the information.
The big "aha" moment is definitely something we all strive for as teachers, I completely agree with you on that one. I also like how you talked about the different types of system and named them off for people. Incorporating all of these states systems would definitely be beneficial to students like you said, because then they are able to be actively engaged and are able to focus on whatever the topic may be without just visually seeing the information. Such as letting the child touch something as an example or hear sounds can definitely be beneficial to their learning, and create an even deeper understanding which may in fact help them to learn the concept more.
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