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What interesting storytellers our brains are! Our morning session today on inputs into our brains really showed how much of our sensory inputs are "told" to us by our brain/nervous system; we are simply along for the ride. It was really interesting to me to see how much the brain tells us stories about our surroundings, and uses a few basic observations to fill in the gaps.

The obvious implication, then, for us as educators, is that our students' brains may very well also be filling in the gaps based on a few observations they may make in class. We need- not only to do this ourselves- but also encourage our students to do the same- practice "getting it less wrong" by going back and editing and looking where our students' brains are spinning stories live, and encourage in our students the ability to self-check to make sure that we do indeed "get it less wrong", rather than get taken for a ride by our brains and nervous systems.