hearing and learning

I am a learning facilitator. Facilitating the transfer of a broad array of content and knowledge to students of varying ages.

You see, a classroom, whether this is the old school type of classroom or a boardroom, is a universe. We know so little about how our brain works. How it process information, how it turns stimuli to knowledge, to memory, and how it uses this memory as it moves forward with life in the form of decisions and actions.

This is still a curious question up to now. A universe indeed! = )

We are still in pre-Magellan or pre-Columbus times when it comes understanding the brain and learning.

I say that because all the "training" materials out there is simply limited to activities a facilitator must do in front. But as to why one does what one does, this is still limited in research papers of far-flung academics or neuroscientists.

My curiosity primarily goes out to my school, now in a 10-day quarantine shutdown due to H1N1. You see my school has 10-week academic calendar. This structure is very easy to fault if one only embraces the convention about education. But to limit the curiosity to simply fault-finding is not my cup of tea.

Seriously, I see this 10-week structure as a way to reinvent.

At least, this situation really exposes that hearing the lesson is different from learning the lesson = )

Though, lesson coverage is easy to measure, it is still a long way-to-go when it comes to measuring the actual learning.

How would Google run a school then? = )