Mukunda, Kamal V.
(2018)
Creative use of teaching-learning materials.
Learning Curve (31).
pp. 8-10.
Abstract
A few hundred thousand years ago, Homo Sapiens
walked on African soil, searching for food, shelter,
perhaps companionship. Externally, their lives were
completely different from ours today—but inside
our skulls, our brains are remarkably similar to those
of our ancestors. Children on the African savannah
did not go to school, but their young brains were
perfectly adapted to learn from their environment
over a period of several years. Since the time scale
of evolutionary change is so slow, the structure and
function of children’s brains have not changed over
the millennia. Learning from one’s environment
is an integral part of childhood, and those of us
who teach or design learning environments should
keep this in mind. In this essay, I hope to persuade
readers that the creative use of teaching-learning
materials is a powerful way to align schooling with
the way children’s brains are built to learn.
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