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What is our brain telling us? What are we telling our students?

Submitted by RecycleJack Marine on Tue, 07/14/2009 - 9:08pm.

What comes into ouir head through our eyes is just a part of what the brain uses to interpret what the real word is about. Humans have developed perceptions based in the amount of light let in by our eyes, but the brain uses other tools to tell us what we are seeing. Stephanie Wall (BMC biology student) wrote in 2002: "Ordinary reality, then, can be defined as the best sense the brain can make at a given time about fundamentally ambiguous information from the physical world. "*

In the classroom, students may look at us as if we are fundamentally ambiguous! Students then make whatever sense they can of what we are teaching, and apply this to their schematic memory- if they understand what we're talking about!

 

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