Technology, Teaching and the Brain

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Technology, Teaching and the Brain
Jeff Goodman Appalachian State University Departme
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The word technology suggests the study of
techniques. Technology is the systematic
application of scientific or of organized
knowledge to practical tasks. John Kenneth
Galbraith
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Teaching is the craft of changing the brain.
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The Brain Weight 1.35 kg (3 pounds)
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The Brain Neurons 100 billion (It would take
you 5000 years to count them, 1 per second, 16
hours a day.) Synapses Average of 10,000 per
cell 1,000,000,000,000,000 (It would take you
50 million years to count them all.)
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How does the mind work?
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Historically, metaphors for the mind have been
drawn from the technology of the day.
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We are born with many neural pathways in our
brains hooked up. When we learn, we are
strengthening connections that already exist.
Multiple pathways are active together.
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Our brains are the way they are for a reason
what they do naturally has been successful in
evolutionary history.
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Estimating Quantities
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We Are Natural Problem Solvers Chimp uses water
as tool
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Unfortunately, many of the things we need to do
in the modern world were not present in our
evolutionary history.
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To say we have learned something or know
something can mean many different things.
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• Charlie David lives on George Avenue
• Charlie George lives on Albert Zoe Avenue
• George Ernie lives on Albert Bruno Avenue
• Charlie David works on Albert Bruno Avenue
• Charlie George works on Bruno Albert Avenue
• George Ernie works on Charlie Ernie Avenue

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• 3710
• 7512
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• 3721
• 7535

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• Charlie David lives on George Avenue
• Charlie George lives on Albert Zoe Avenue
• George Ernie lives on Albert Bruno Avenue

• Charlie David works on Albert Bruno Avenue
• Charlie George works on Bruno Albert Avenue
• George Ernie works on Charlie Ernie Avenue

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Luckily, our brains excel at generating
abstractions from concrete experience.
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Our brains and our bodies are intimately
connected and interdependent.
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Our success as a species required us to work in
groups. Our brains are strongly wired for social
interaction and emotion.
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The brain is always making choices about what to
attend to. Attention impacts not only learning,
but life in general. My experience is what I
agree to attend to. -William James
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Change Blindness
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While we often act as though teaching and
learning are logical, rationale processes, a
great deal is going on in the brain of which we
are not conscious.
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Moreover, conceptual, empathetic and creative
(right brain) processes are increasingly
important in the world.
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Cant be automated.
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Cant be outsourced
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Connects us to what it means to be human.