what is important in learning? Storage, knowledge, connections? #change11 « connectiv:
"One very old and very wrong definition of learning is: “learning is storing knowledge in the brains.” Some psychologists (neuropsychology) do experiments, they ask people to learn meaningless words and measure learning speed etc. This is not learning as humans do. This is not a new thought on learning. But the storage metaphor is still in use and is confusing us. Every teacher should know by now storing knowledge is the wrong metaphor.
Learning is creating new (potential) behaviour or modifying existing behaviour. I do not listen to a life session in the MOOC with the purpose and intention to store information in my brain, do you? (these neuropsychologists found that listening to a speech is the worst way to learn, retention is very bad)."
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