Ed Surge – Jeffrey R. Young
“The way teaching is typically done just doesn’t match how the brain actually learns. “Our approach to teaching is based on the assumption that the teacher has a pen and the student’s brain is a sheet of paper. That’s actually wrong,” says Sanjay Sarma, a professor and the vice president for open learning at MIT. Instead, he likens good teaching to growing a plant. “We’re forming a model of the world, and the professor and everything else is in the service of that plant that is growing.” Sarma just co-wrote a new book called “Grasp: The Science Transforming How We Learn.” It’s full of surprising truths about how the brain works when it comes to understanding new concepts.” (more)