Download - 12 brain/mind Natural learning principles
Daniel Felipe RosalesValentina Ramírez Vanegas
12 BRAIN/MIND NATURAL LEARNING PRINCIPLES
When body, brain and mind are conceived of as dynamic unity, then it becomes possible to identify core general aspects of how this system learns.Each Principle reveals a capacity that all students have for learning language and comprehending text.
Daniel Felipe RosalesValentina Ramírez Vanegas
Principle #8: Learning is both conscious and
unconscious.
Your Conscious Mind.
Processes 7 + 2 chunks of information at one time
Your Unconscious Mind
Processes 4 million bits of information
per second
Your Unconscious Mind
Imagine …
Your Unconscious Mind
A building
As large as:
Your Unconscious Mind
A Super Wal*Mart
Your Unconscious Mind
A Super Wal*Mart
Filled With
Neuro-Connections in Your Mind
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• 101010 Neuro-connections in your mind
Learning involves layers of consciousness. Some learning requires a person to consciously attend to a problem that needs to be solved or analyzed. What we call "active processing" allows students to review how and what they've absorbed so they begin to take charge of their learning and of the development of personal meaning.
ConsciousConscious
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At other times, people who study learning as an unconscious process call it incubation. The creative insights of artists and scientists sometimes occur after the mind has done some intellectual process. Meaning is not always available on the surface. Meaning often happens intuitively in ways that we don't understand. So that, when we learn, we use both conscious and unconscious processes
UnconsciousUnconscious
Conscious - Unconscious Functions of the Mind
Conscious Unconscious
• Thinks sequentially • Thinks simultaneously
• Is logical • Is cybernetic
• Thinking (secondary experience) • Feeling (most primary
experience)
Conscious - Unconscious Functions of the MindConscious Unconscious
• Aware only of the present • Storehouse of memories
• Voluntary movement • Involuntary movement
• Tries to understand problems • Knows the Solution
Conscious Unconscious
• Chooses/directs outcome • Makes outcome happen
• Deliberate • Automatic
• Verbal • Nonverbal
• Analytical • Synthetic
Conscious - Unconscious Functions of the Mind
Daniel Felipe RosalesValentina Ramírez Vanegas
CuriousCurious factfactWe learn much more than we ever consciously understand. Most of the signals that are peripherally perceived enter the brain without our awareness and interact on unconscious levels. This is why we say that learners become their experience and remember what they experience, not just what they are told.
Daniel Felipe RosalesValentina Ramírez Vanegas
ConclusionConclusion
An essential key to improving performance in any field, and to improve learning, is to become aware of how one functions and then to intentionally develop additional capacities. This is possible because at the heart of all learning is a very basic feedback loop.