Learning About Learning
September 7th, 2010 by ComputerBob
In 1986, while finishing my Masters degree, all of the students in one of my education courses took a left-brain/right-brain evaluation test.
The results were displayed on a single sheet of paper, with your score on several different types of thinking tasks appearing as a column of dots running down the page. The further left or right of center each dot appeared, the more left- or right-brained you had been judged to be on that task.
My dots all lined up down the center of the page.
As I’ve joked many times since then, I must either use both sides of my brain for every task — or I don’t use either side of my brain.
The problem with that left-brain/right-brain test is that there’s no real research to back up its claims.
In fact, a lot of what we think we know about learning and how the mind works is just plain wrong, according to cognitive scientists.
Who would’ve thought?
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