An article in USA today pointed to Scientists who are quietly tackling education issues, offering up new tools, new approaches and even a new discipline.
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Three principles are espoused in the proposal for a field of learning research:
•Learning is computational. Even infants and toddlers possess innate capabilities to see and hear patterns, something psychologists doubted decades ago. Reinforcing those capabilities by teaching patterns early might sharpen kids' brains.
•Learning is social. People, even infants, learn better through social cues. We "most readily learn and re-enact an event when it is produced by a person," scientists and colleagues write. "Social factors also play a role in life-long learning — new social technologies (for example, text messaging, Facebook, and Twitter) tap humans' drive for social communication," they add.
•Learning is driven by brain circuitry. Brain cells fired up during both perception and action overlap in people, which allows students to identify with their teachers and speeds learning.
"The young learn best from people in human social interaction. But one of the fundamental characteristics of the human mind is our flexibility and our inventiveness — our capacity to invent tools to amplify our own sensory and motor abilities," scientists said by e-mail.
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