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There's a lot of myths about learning and the brain on the internet. I tackle five in this video, and try to give you better ways to think about how our brains work to help us learn. 00:31 Different parts of the brain do different things 03:11 Sleep is important for learning 05:03 Brain activity and learning 06:33 Why some people learn more than others 09:54 Learning modality influences learning, but how? 11:54 Patterns to myths and what to watch out for Sign up to my email newsletter, Avoiding Folly, here: https://www.benjaminkeep.com/ Good learning styles videos: Veritasium - Biggest Myth in Education https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhgwI... Neurotransmissions - Are learning styles real? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSXkf... Me - Why do we still believe in learning styles? https://youtu.be/Z5DmyVYQ9Oc (uh... slightly less good than the others...) Footage sources: The two-perspective drawing example comes from Art Academy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW5KP... Maybe one day I'll actually learn how to draw. The visual math proof comes from mathocube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ypno... Check them out! I'm a big fan! The "sum of N-odd numbers" problem was also one of the first math proofs I can remember working on. Thanks, Mrs. McLaughlin! The "bike on a line" example comes from Veritasium's video on how we don't know how we ride a bike. It's a good one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cNmU... The insane powerpoint presentation made the rounds 10 years ago or so. Wired explains: https://www.wired.com/2010/09/reveale... The "sleep stages" animation is based on an image found here: Diekelmann, S., & Born, J. (2010). The memory function of sleep. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 11(2), 114-126. References: On the prevalence of these brain-based myths generally: Dekker, S., Lee, N. C., Howard-Jones, P., & Jolles, J. (2012). Neuromyths in education: Prevalence and predictors of misconceptions among teachers. Frontiers in psychology, 429. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/... Right-brain left brain Allen, K. N., & van der Zwan, R. (2019). The myth of left-vs right-brain learning. International Journal of Innovation, Creativity and Change, 5(1), 189-200. https://researchmgt.monash.edu/ws/por... Myth of right-brain left-brain learning; also, good material generally on "brain-based" nonsense. Point out that where language processing occurs depends on handedness and there's some natural variation (most the left-brain is predominant, but some is bilateral). Binder, J. R. (2015). The Wernicke area: Modern evidence and a reinterpretation. Neurology, 85(24), 2170-2175. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... I didn't mention Wernicke's area in the video, but just as an example of how brain processes are distributed across the brain (and how recent research further emphasizes that the brain is not compartmentalized into a simple "Part A does thing Z" and "Part B does thing Y" system). Cone of Experience/Learning Subramony, D. P., Molenda, M., Betrus, A. K., & Thalheimer, W. (2014). The mythical retention chart and the corruption of Dale's cone of experience. Educational Technology, 6-16. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44430317 A pretty comprehensive discussion of the "corrupted cone" (Dale's Cone of Experience + retention claims). They say a LOT more than I had time to in the video. This is a short summary of Dale's Cone of Experience and where it came from if you can't access the article above: https://www.peoplematters.in/article/... Learning Styles There's many articles to cite here, but here are three good ones Riener, C., & Willingham, D. (2010). The myth of learning styles. Change: The magazine of higher learning, 42(5), 32-35. http://sites.psu.edu/wp-content/uploa.... A very readable piece. Pashler, H., McDaniel, M., Rohrer, D., & Bjork, R. (2008). Learning styles: Concepts and evidence. Psychological science in the public interest, 9(3), 105-119. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/.... This is one of the classics. Willingham, D. T., Hughes, E. M., & Dobolyi, D. G. (2015). The scientific status of learning styles theories. Teaching of Psychology, 42(3), 266-271. https://career.ucsf.edu/sites/g/files....