Matthew Taylor
speaker
407 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2011
last heard Nov 2011
Matthew Taylor’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Can I just ask you a few more questions?
Okay, so how many of you are still confident that you know how many years it was between the death of Arthur and the death of his father?
Okay, I'm just going to test.
On the count of three, I want you all to shout out what the number is.
One, two, three.
Seven!
Okay, it seems like that fact's gone in.
Now, I want to ask you another fact.
I want to ask, what was the name, put your hand up if you're absolutely certain, what was the name of Henry VII's first son?
Only those people with their hands up, tell me what you think on the count of three the name of Henry VII's oldest son was.
One, two, three.
So while the facts the children had gained had gone in, other ones hadn't.
Now there's an age-old debate in education between a traditional model of driving facts into children's heads versus a view that children must be engaged in their learning.
Maybe in time, the kind of neuroscience technique being used in Newport can overcome this divide by providing an engaging way of learning essential facts.
But as we left, Paul Howard Jones himself wanted to give us a warning.
His careful and still tentative research is in danger of being drowned out in a tide of pseudoscientific brain-training games, being sold for everything from management away days to people worried about dementia.
The evidence shows that the only thing these games make you better at is the game itself.
This point, that the early years might not be all important to the brain, may cause a frisson to run through Whitehall.
The idea that our destiny all lies in those first three years has become a consensus that crosses party lines.
It's seen money flow into programmes like Sure Start.
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