Your brain's important, but not all that important," said Dr. James Paul Gee, a professor at Arizona State University and a leading authority on literacy and the potential of educational games, during a talk at the Learning and Brain conference last week.
By that he means the following: What we'd assumed about the importance of brain functions -- following rules and logic and calculating -- are no longer relevant. There's been a revolution in the learning sciences and the new theories say that human beings learn from experiences -- that our brains can store every experience we've had, and that's what informs our learning process.
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