Brain based education: Fad or breakthrough--high quality

[BfSkinnerPunk]

This"brain based" business is a money making fad. Education is, unfortunately, susceptable to one fad after another. "Brain based" sounds very good, but it is just chit chat and repackaging of things repeated before. Behavior and the basic principles of behavior should be the focus. Teachers (and trainers) can not see the brain, neurons, etc.... they *can* see attendance to instruction, accuracy, and other forms of behavior, the *can* manipulate material, consequences, and antecedents.

[gbleem]

It's really sad that the sound is so bad. The Angry Filmmaker says that sound is more important than the visuals.

[dbw8m]

@gbleem Couldn't agree with you more. :( This is totally a garage-band, funded-out-of-pocket enterprise, so my mic is lousy.

[pixelproductions100]

I find this video a learning exeriance, now watch me type a really long comment about something off topic. I would say that you are still reading but what would the point be in saying that when i know you still are, and i like that fact that some one got bored enough to read this xD I find it helpful at times like these to say that your true fear is, POkeMON!!

[TheThinkerToy]

The idea is good but this professor Willingham should be selling insomnia medicine.... I had to watch this video in four different sessions, I simply couldn't endure the boredom.

[ctskelly]

I quite liked the video, but I thought the claims were a bit overstated. Scientific theory deals with probabilities and best guesses, not absolutes, so while I completely agree with the overall message, I think he lost a lot of credibility by saying the whole thing is 95% untrue, or "Just wrong." instead of "we have to be careful accepting some of the assumptions.

[Thrashaero]

@ctskelly true but sometimes it's hard when you got substantial reason to say something instead of trying to be politically correct. it's easy to come off too boldly.

[Parlante4ever]

I found the video interesting and as a teacher who is using a "whole brain teaching" approach, I totally agree that it is the behavior we have to look at. I have had much better behavior, focused attention and I think the use of as many senses as possible targets all the different learning styles. You might debate whether there is actually more learning taking place, but IMO, you can't learn what you aren't attending to, so it stands to reason that there is.

[Chokearti]

For helping educators distinguish between "educashin" and "education" - thank you

[mizminh]

Thank you.

[dardonZ]

Cool.. MAKE MORE

[mr5tein]

"In education the behavioral data is enough" (regardless of whether the brain data supports or contradicts it). Excellent point. Behavioral data is still where educators should focus their research and practice.

[GodzillalovesMothra]

Awesome Video! Thanks for Sharing.

[aeaton]

Thank you for this explanation. It makes perfect sense. I have been trying to figure out what my daughter's learning style is. She has a photographic memory, but memorizing isn't learning in its entirety, though her photographic memory helps. She could count to 20 before she understood what she was doing, because she remembered the number graph, but she didn't understand what to do with those numbers. She uses visual, auditory, and kinesthetic processes as tools for learning.

[EducationIllustrated]

Your entire premise (tug-o-war vs jogging) is wrong. One activity has people "joined" in an activity. Their fates are tied. The jogging example is concurrent activities, they just happen to be next to each other. I can't believe you would base your argument on this since you are a scientist. The rest of your video, then, is flawed. You are talking about very specific structures and most "brain based education" is about general trends (attention span, memory strategies, music, movement, etc...)

[john5246]

The reason the woman ran a longer distance and felt less tired is simply because she was distracted during her run (with talking). Perhaps she's attracted to the man she's running with...there are a multitude of reasons why that particular jog coudl've been better.

What if she ran with him the next day and he pointed out that she looks fat in her new shorts? Having her weighed herself that very morning she noticed she gained a 2lbs. Now her run seemed tiring and she didn't want to run at all.

[kangarc]

@EducationIllustrated : It seems that you've just supported one of the points of the video, not detracted from it. Of course the tug-o-war is different from jogging with a partner, and that's precisely why one must avoid jumping carelessly between seemingly-analogous examples.

[epiptoad]

Excellent video (as are your others). Thank you for sharing this.

[Rickbrigham]

Excellent, simply excellent.

[Situativity]

Very nice! I needed a succinct way to help people understand what is real about this term.

[ilivehk]

very clear explanation!

thanks Daniel!