Education News – Kristin Decarr
“A new approach to how students learn, referred to as educational neuroscience, is being continuously explored by researchers worldwide in an effort to understand brain activity in ways that make teaching and learning more efficient and more effective. At Carnegie Mellon University, students participated in a study in which they were taught about how household objects operate through a physics lesson that took place while inside an fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) brain scanner, which allowed scientists to record subjects’ brain activity while learning. Through observing the patterns that appeared, the scientists could decipher which machine the brain was thinking about.
According to the scientists involved in the study, this type of research could help to improve teaching methods and aid in the creation of a new way of assessing what students have learned.”(more)