At the VIU Teaching & Learning Conference 2017 we were summarizing the days work in post-in notes.
My key thoughts from the keynote: Dr. Kimberly Tanner, PhD
- “Teaching is the neurobiology of lots of brains”
- “Teaching and learning are fundamentally about changing the human brain”
- If learning is about brain changing, then students
- Must be awake, attending, and interested
- need to activate related knowledge / memories / circuits so that they connect these to new understandings
- are only then likely ready for constructing new knowledge (circuits)
- need opportunities to self-assess their understanding and identify confusions
Here I am hard at work:
