Posted on 04/29/2017 9:46:01 AM PDT by fella
When people in a group are engaged with each other and with the world around them, their brainwaves show similar patterns. That's the conclusion of researchers who used portable EEG to simultaneously record brain activity from a class of high school students over the course of a semester as they went about their classroom activities. The findings highlight the promise of investigating the neuroscience of group interactions in real-world settings.
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Perhaps, but this is why it is important to have real schools and real classrooms, and why “on-line” learning, while valuable, has limitations.
I am not a fan of the current universities, and think most of them should be razed. But that doesn’t mean that real physical schools are not needed. I have seen the value of interaction, the fact that new thoughts are always generated, that there is always something that neither the textbook authors nor the professor have thought of, or thought of in that way.
Great case for online learning because I am opposed to syncing brains.
Wouldn’t it be the same to say:
When the room is hot, all students perspire?
Very interesting. The bible has many instances where God says groups of people were of ‘’one mind’’ from Genesis to Revelation.
It always amazes me when science discovers what God already knew, and tried to tell us.
[groups of people were of ‘’one mind’]
All the more to safeguard WHAT the teacher is putting into their minds.
I thought this would be a Justin Timberlake thread...
The guys brains are always in sync if you count thinking about sex.
translation - avoid mobs of any kind, keep your brain “in sync” with yourself, so your “open mind” continues to make independent decisions.
“Perhaps, but this is why it is important to have real schools and real classrooms, and why “on-line” learning, while valuable, has limitations.”
It means quite the opposite. On-line learning keeps your critical thinking doing YOUR independent thinking, NOT getting “in sync” with everyone else.
Nope. As an instructor of 40 years, I can tell you there is no substitute for critical thinking interaction of students (and professors) if it is allowed to happen without censorship.
Nope. Minds “in sync” is a reflection of mob mentality, and independent critical thinking is minimized.
Assuming this “mind syncing” is desireable, and not somehow reliant on physical distance, then it would seem that online learning, in combination with the revolution in virtual reality that is nearly here, could generate the same experience without necessitating the brick-and-mortar university system we have today.
Of course, this would require all the members to participate at the same time. One of the advantages of online learning, as I see it, is the time asynchronicity.
I think you could reasonably compare it to email communication vs face-to-face. There are some things that are best and most efficiently done with a few people in a room communicating instantly and directly, but there are also many things that can be more efficiently or equally efficiently communicated through email and it doesn’t require all the participants to share space and time as face-to-face interaction.
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