Brain based education: Fad or breakthrough--high quality

Professor Daniel Willingham looks at when and how neuroscience can inform education. (Higher quality version of previously posted video)

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[gbleem]

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

[Daniel Willingham]

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

[undusklabe]

cool

[cmm6p]

The caution not to make leaps is much needed. I caution all my pre-service teachers to be interested but skeptical when anyone says "I have solved X problem in education." However I do see some value in re-emphasizing to school districts that having real food available to students is needed. I also see value in spotlighting the success that curriculum integration can achieve in long term learning. But we knew that already too, sans brain fads. Thanks from a former Wahoo in your class.

[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.

[kangarc]

: 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.

[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!!