Geake And Cooper: Article Analysis
After reading Geake and Cooper’s article, I would have to agree with the proposal. I would agree there is a relationship between cognitive science and education. Cognitive Science is the scientific study of the mind and its process. In education, we are teaching the students a process in learning the materials of the curriculum. We are leaving them think of decision and logic in coming up with answers to questions. The best questions are when there are no right or wrong answers and the students have to think for themselves. This is a hard task for some generation because they were never allowed to think for themselves in a classroom. There was always a right or wrong answer.
The cognitive science also uses memory and attention and language,
which makes me think of early childhood education. When children are in a preschool setting and playing in a center, we as teachers need to sit back and leave the children take the lead. Leave them understand the world around them and ask questions to gain better knowledge on things they don’t understand or know in this stage of their learning. We should be taking the children learning to their level of play. If they need to work on numbers, practice counting blocks, sorting the colors, making numbers out of toys, or just leaving the child take the lead and come up with ideas. Children learn more when they are able to make a connection with their brain. This is why I believe the relationship of the two work together and make a great outcome.
In the article, they mention adaptive plasticity, which is when the capacity of the brain can change due to the cognitive environment. This makes me think of Piaget’s theory of cognitive development. He believed that the child’s knowledge was constructed by their understanding of the world around them and believed in “open education” in child centered classrooms.
The study of Cognitive Science and Education related to High Performance Learning because it is not a certain why to learn or a correct way to obtain information. It is the process of knowing. High Performance Learning
The cognitive science also uses memory and attention and language,
which makes me think of early childhood education. When children are in a preschool setting and playing in a center, we as teachers need to sit back and leave the children take the lead. Leave them understand the world around them and ask questions to gain better knowledge on things they don’t understand or know in this stage of their learning. We should be taking the children learning to their level of play. If they need to work on numbers, practice counting blocks, sorting the colors, making numbers out of toys, or just leaving the child take the lead and come up with ideas. Children learn more when they are able to make a connection with their brain. This is why I believe the relationship of the two work together and make a great outcome.
In the article, they mention adaptive plasticity, which is when the capacity of the brain can change due to the cognitive environment. This makes me think of Piaget’s theory of cognitive development. He believed that the child’s knowledge was constructed by their understanding of the world around them and believed in “open education” in child centered classrooms.
The study of Cognitive Science and Education related to High Performance Learning because it is not a certain why to learn or a correct way to obtain information. It is the process of knowing. High Performance Learning