P2476 Cognitive
Neuroscience of Human Learning & Instruction
Discussion Questions
1. Discussion of Bruer Bridging Education and Neuroscience
1.1. What are examples of poor neuro-eductation speak (examples the use of Right brain, we use 10% of our brains)?
1.2. What is the bridge too far and what might not be?
1.3. How is the use of plasticity an example of what not to do?
1.4. If you removed the neuroscience from the textbooks of cognition/education would it change the take home messages?
1.5. How is the neuroscience and math learning better?
1.6. How to we develop a convergent evolution of neuroscience, education and cognition?
2. Concepts of connectionism and applications to education
2.1. How is backpropagation learning in NetTalk similar and dissimilar to human learning?
2.2. How does contrast learning (restricted Boltzman learning get you around the problem of a supervisor for supervised learning in backpropagation?
2.3. How does contrast learning shaped by the examples it sees and the order in which layers are allowed to become plastic?
2.4. Is the learning good enough to match human level learning?
2.5. How can a second sensory system become a teacher?
2.6. How does formal labeling help the system for generation and perception?
5. Wrap-up
education discussion
7. Neuro papers on reinforcement learning
11. Overview
of education content areas
12. Math
papers (seigler, dehaene)
14. Papers on art, stress, individual difference exercise, etc