Primal Brain in the Modern Classroom (SciAM) (back to school...)

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Evolution biased the human mind to attend to some types of information over others—often the exact opposite of what teachers wish children would learn

By David C. Geary | August 22, 2011



Understanding how the brain evolved can help us comprehend why children may struggle to learn in school. Natural selection biased human minds over thousands of generations to attend automatically to some features of the social and ecological environment before others. Only with effort can we override our automatic learning systems to tackle new challenges, such as those we face in school.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=primal-brain-in-the-modern-classroom

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1. Link not working.

Seems to be SciAm's fault. Internal links on that site are broken, too.

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2. No google cache either

That's annoying.