Mary Helen Immordino-Yang

What do you see in this?

And I establish the students as agentic, curious students.

learners they are the people who show up in the space like scientists trying to figure out what's the idea here and how does it square with the things I've known before and what sense does it make and that's the entry point into the curriculum rather than let me give you the basic information about the brain we're going to start with all the parts and then we'll talk about what they do and then next week we'll get into the important stuff about how it works

Let's just look at videotapes of people, kids, teachers, right?

People learning, people out in the world together and watch what's happening.

And then think backwards, learning about, well, how is the brain and the body enabling those things to happen?

And how are they looking different in these different contexts and why?

And what does this mean?

for how we might support learning in these different contexts.

So we turn it backwards around and intrigue people with the examples first and then work backward once they have seen the example to help them think about, okay, let me tell you some of the facts about what's going on behind here now.

How does that change your ability to analyze and understand what you could learn from this?

Yeah, this is an idea that we've been writing about and advocating for for some time.

And I have a paper with several colleagues that's available on the internet called Weaving a Colorful Cloth, which is about this notion.

And what we're arguing is that we need to recenter education like a Copernican shift.

We're changing the perspective on the metrics and the processes that we have.

So

You know, right now for so long, what we've done is we're basically standing on the earth, making the earth the center and watching the kids and the learning outcomes go by.

And when they go in the wrong direction or they slow down or things happen, we don't really know what to do about it.

Right.

We can't make sense of that.