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  • Definition

    
    

    This learning theory is based on the structure and function of the brain. As long as the brain is not prohibited from fulfilling its normal processes, learning will occur.

  • Definition

    
    

    This learning theory is based on the structure and function of the brain. As long as the brain is not prohibited from fulfilling its normal processes, learning will occur.

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  • • Definition

      
      

      This learning theory is based on the structure and function of the brain. As long as the brain is not prohibited from fulfilling its normal processes, learning will occur.

    • The core principles of brain-based learning state that:

      
      
      
      
      1. The brain is a parallel processor, meaning it can perform several activities at once, like tasting and smelling.
      2. Learning engages the whole physiology.
      3. The search for meaning is innate.
      4. The search for meaning comes through patterning.
      5. Emotions are critical to patterning.
      6. The brain processes wholes and parts simultaneously.
      7. Learning involves both focused attention and peripheral perception.
      8. Learning involves both conscious and unconscious processes.
      9. We have two types of memory: spatial and rote.
      10. We understand best when facts are embedded in natural, spatial memory.
      11. Learning is enhanced by challenge and inhibited by threat.
      12. Each brain is unique.
      13. Orchestrated immersion–Creating learning environments that fully immerse students in an educational experience
      14. Relaxed alertness–Trying to eliminate fear in learners, while maintaining a highly challenging environment
      15. Active processing–Allowing the learner to consolidate and internalize information by actively processing it
    • What Brain-Based Learning Suggests

    • As Renate Caine illustrates on p. 113 of her book Making Connections, three interactive elements are essential to this process:

      
      
      • Teachers must immerse learners in complex, interactive experiences that are both rich and real. One excellent example is immersing students in a foreign culture to teach them a second language. Educators must take advantage of the brain’s ability to parallel process.
      • Students must have a personally meaningful challenge. Such challenges stimulate a student’s mind to the desired state of alertness.
      • In order for a student to gain insight about a problem, there must be intensive analysis of the different ways to approach it, and about learning in general. This is what’s known as the “active processing of experience.”

    • A few other tenets of brain-based learning include:

      
      

      Feedback is best when it comes from reality, rather than from an authority figure.

      
      

      People learn best when solving realistic problems.

      
      

      The big picture can’t be separated from the details.

      
      

      Because every brain is different, educators should allow learners to customize their own environments.

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