Teaching is an ancient craft, and yet we really have had no idea how it affected the developing brain,” said Kurt Fischer, director of the Mind, Brain and Education program at Harvard. “Well, that is beginning to change, and for the first time we are seeing the fields of brain science and education work together.” This relationship is new and still awkward, experts say, and there is more hyperbole than evidence surrounding many “brain-based” commercial products on the market. But there are others, like an early math program taught in Buffalo schools, that have a track record. If these and similar efforts find traction in schools, experts say, they could transform teaching from the bottom up — giving the ancient craft a modern scientific compass.
Brain Power - Studying Young Minds, and How to Teach Them - Series - NYTimes.com
The problem with all this is it is being increasingly used to justify early drilling of data in children’s brains when they arguably should be engaging in imaginative play.
Doesn’t mean we shouldn’t follow the science. It’s all about how we employ…
