{"id":66109,"date":"2019-02-08T13:56:04","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T18:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=66109"},"modified":"2019-02-08T13:56:04","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T18:56:04","slug":"is-teaching-an-art-or-a-science-new-book-takes-a-fresh-look-at-how-humans-learn-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2019\/02\/08\/is-teaching-an-art-or-a-science-new-book-takes-a-fresh-look-at-how-humans-learn-young\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Teaching an Art or a Science? New Book Takes a Fresh Look at \u2018How Humans Learn.\u2019 [Young]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is Teaching an Art or a Science? New Book Takes a Fresh Look at \u2018How Humans Learn.\u2019<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0— from edsurge.com by Jeff Young<\/p>\n

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Eyler:<\/strong>\u00a0That is the perennial question. We actually wrote a\u00a0post<\/a>\u00a0for our Teaching Center\u2019s blog with that title, \u201cIs teaching an art or a science?\u201d It has by far been read more than any other blog post that we\u2019ve written.<\/p>\n

My answer might be a little unfulfilling because I think it\u2019s actually both. I think there is a scientific element to teaching. The book is about understanding the science of how we learn, how learning has evolved over time, and the social interactions that shape teaching. And the best teachers also often approach teaching and teaching issues scientifically. They have a hypothesis of what they think will help students learn, and they\u2019re going to test it out and then learn from it and revise.<\/p>\n

But if we focus too much on the science, we lose the human element of teaching\u2014what I think of as the art of teaching.<\/p>\n

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What\u2019s the thing that surprised you most in your research or putting this book together?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Much of what surprised me most makes up a lot of the final chapter, which is on failure. As teachers, we don\u2019t get trained to think of failure as a positive thing in any way, even though as researchers we know that failure is a part of the learning process. No one walks into a lab right away and comes up with the Nobel Prize-winning discovery. It\u2019s an iterative cycle.<\/p>\n

We have these educational systems that are set up to move in exactly the opposite way. We give students really high-stakes assignments and assessments with very few opportunities to do them.<\/p>\n

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