Everything about brain and education

How to do better in the exams A student asked me, How to get higher grade for exams. I told the student, You are being evaluated by essay and oral exam based on your essay and I already explained how to study for those. The student told me, Exams from other classes. Thought I might have the answers. I said to the student, There are mainly two types of exams. One is asking accuracy of knowledge that you know and second is to evaluate the goal-oriented brain function. The example of the first one is questions like ‘when the world war II ended?’ These are questions asking accuracy of the knowledge. But this is not education for human. It is like training dogs to follow exactly as they learned. If any professor provided exams like this, you should go tell them not to teach and evaluate using the method used for training dogs. The example of second case is questions like ‘1 gram object is falling from 1 meter above the ground. Calculate energy.’ These are th...

Why online classes are not as effective as face to face? One of the participants asked a question in the teaching professors virtual conference ongoing now. The question was that how to make online teaching effective. From the conference, there is limited info about online teaching. I replied. If teaching is focused on delivering knowledge by understanding, effectiveness would drop significantly for online. This is because learning knowledge by understanding doesn’t require thinking. When thinking is not involved, it is like training a dog. Dogs can understand human signals and words and follow instruction once trained. The problem is that you cannot train dogs online.  I continued. To make either online or face to face teaching effective, thinking function of the human brain has to be tackled. And the thinking process includes data collection, analysis, prediction and decision making. The person replied. How to teach students to learn knowledge and thinkin...

Goal oriented teaching method (1 st edition) In general, education focuses on ‘knowledge’. But by teaching knowledge students wouldn’t be able to develop thinking skills to be a leader or decision maker (refer to ‘Something you should know about learning knowledge by understanding!’). Then, what to focus for learning and teaching? The best but most difficult one is ‘thought process-based learning and teaching’. But this requires systematic training and takes time (the shortest is about 4 years). And the goal of ‘thought process-based education’ is for learners to develop their brain power beyond known geniuses such as Isaac Newton or Albert Einstein.   Thus, Min has developed one extra learning and teaching methods which named as goal-oriented learning and teaching. However, individual learner might not be able to follow this easily simply due to lack of experiences, this article will be focusing on teaching. Please note. The method is not a subject and this is a metho...

1. Learning knowledge by understanding will train you to be a slave. You have to beg for knowledge from the knowledgeable person like a teacher or a professor). 2 Learning knowledge by understanding will hold you in the past. Knowledge is something that is already known. Even if you learned new one, it was already known by someone somewhere in the world. 3. Learning knowledge by understanding will block your brain from thinking. Once you understand and know, your brain will stop. 4. Learning knowledge will stress your brain. Once you learned, your brain stops thinking. To learn new knowledge, you will need to restart your brain. Basically, you are repeating stopping and going as driving in traffic jam. 5. Learning knowledge by understanding will stress your life. As your brain stressed, your life will be stressed. 6. Learning knowledge by understanding is common learning methods for animals with brain. Dogs can understand human once they are trained. Dogs can do ...