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🌟MONTESSORI RESEARCH UPDATE!🌟 Are you more curious to know or to understand concepts? A fascinating recent study that looked at the brain of 111 school-aged students in Switzerland, has shown that there are differences in learning strategies between #Montessori and traditional schooling. Specifically, “students who learn with Montessori pedagogy have a higher tendency to make connections between concepts, fostering deep learning and knowledge transfer. Conversely, students who learn with traditional pedagogy tend to memorize knowledge in a fixed way, restricted to a given situation. These orientations may have long-term effects on flexible knowledge transfer and critical or creative thinking.” The study was conducted by 5 researchers, including Montessorian Solange Denervaud. #research #braindevelopment #publicmontessori #pedagogy #learning

“students who learn with Montessori pedagogy have a higher tendency to make connections between concepts, fostering deep learning and knowledge transfer. Conversely, students who learn with traditional pedagogy tend to memorize knowledge in a fixed way, restricted to a given situation. These orientations may have long-term effects on flexible knowledge transfer and critical or creative thinking.” #montessori #education #elementary #montessorireaearch #montessoripedagogy #teaching

The Montessori method provides opportunities for connected learning and deeper understanding.

Do you know how being in certain places can help you remember things? That's called spatiotemporal context encoding. Don't be intimidated by those crazy science words. Just know that it's different from when you remember something because it's meaning is similar to the meaning of something else you are encountering. National Center for Montessori in the Public Sector has an interesting post about another research study that shows a neurological advantage for Montessori education. In this study, Montessori students were found to have more developed brain regions for semantic encoding which means memorizing things based on their meaning. The traditional school students had more developed brains regions associated with memorizing things based on the events/episodes the learner was in when they learned it.  It's kind of like remembering things based on where we were when we learned it rather than remembering things because we deeply understand their meaning. The researchers suggest that in traditional education, it is "...harder to associate different concepts, and learning becomes a succession of unrelated information to remember." What do you think?

On 31 October 2023, the Science of Learning in Education Centre (SoLEC) hosted Dr Hale Ögel-Balaban, where he shared more on the link between comprehension of time metaphors and cognitive flexbility. Check out what else he shared here: #educationresearch #educationinsingapore #singaporeeducation #researchempowers #nieoer #science #comprehension #time #metaphors #cognitive #flexibility

Why are educators ignoring the value of critical pedagogy? It may be the best option in the post-pandemic age of technology and AI. "The Critical Pedagogy movement has the objective of liberating education from the industrial perspective of generating mindless workers to create social consciousness in the students while allowing them to express their opinions and pursue their personal interests." https://lnkd.in/dqxTvkDv.

⭐Check out this Magna Online Seminar!⭐ Explore ways to integrate #generativeAI into #assessments, allowing #educators to evaluate student understanding beyond writing, fostering deeper cognitive comprehension for tailored teaching and significant student growth. https://lnkd.in/gDteJqs3

In this 21st Century world, Artificial Intelligence compels us to have a great concern for memory building in our children! What will happen to their memories? I am teaching a workshop with SCL on narration and the registration deadline is February 3. My goal for this Narration Immersion course is to help you understand and experience that narration is the most powerful pedagogy to build cognitive functions for all learning. Building memory and learning oral communication through narration and dialogue ought to be the primary experiences we give to students in classrooms and in home schools. Understanding the history and praxis of narration is rooted in the foundation of memory. For this reason, the first session is going to focus on the role of memory according to the tradition of classical education.  We will explore and discuss excerpts from the seminal text, The Book of Memory: A Study of Memory in Medieval Culture by Mary Carruthers.  In addition, in session one you will experience the powerful and poetic experience in the art of narration through attending and cultivating memory.  The next session will be a deep dive into the tradition of memory, mental picture making, and how narration is the core pedagogy that develops multiple cognitive functions for building memory and virtue. We will read and discuss excerpts from Quintilian’s Institutes of Oratoria & The Craft of Thought by Carruthers. You will also experience the art of the various stages of narration and its modes as it participates in all three arts of the trivium. The trivium is at the heart of learning language. Narration is in fact the only classical pedagogy that activates all three parts of the trivium. It is indeed the most important art for a trivium-based education.  In our third session we will focus on narration as a rhetorical art through a complete reading of chapter 4 from  the seminal text, Reorienting Rhetoric: The Dialectic of List and Story by John O’Banion.  This book is the most detailed and comprehensive book on the history of narration and its primacy in the history of education. Finally, in the last session, we will look at the practical outcomes of narration, explore types of rubrics, and troubleshoot common problems that occur in both teachers and students regarding the art of narration. The homework readings are scholarly. They are meant to serve as a basic guide for the history and praxis of narration to help you see the beauty, power, and potential that narration offers for 21st Century learning in classical schools. Register for the Narration Intensive at the SCL Winter Workshop site: https://lnkd.in/eyYVEBmU

Great article Jared Cooney Horvath, PhD, MEd. As reflective and evaluative educators, this makes me rethink what we are reflecting on. Are we reflecting on how our learning design builds connection/s? Are we reflecting on how our design of learning creates a web of knowledge? How much do we know about how our learners learn, and what are we intentionally and responsively doing about that? https://lnkd.in/gGYzWmT4

Edutopia has published their 10 Most Significant Education Studies of 2023. I continue to love the bite sized summaries of current research to assist in informing our where to next. https://lnkd.in/gsni7atQ