Upcoming researchED talk
NYC, Saturday May 1st
Why struggle is (usually) bad and right answers are good: “information-integration learning” and reward prediction error
A key finding from cognitive neuroscience that has yet to reach the classroom:
Our brains have two learning systems, not one.
Rule-based learning is conscious, verbal, fast, and simple.
Information-integration learning is nonverbal, nonconscious, slow, and complex. As its name implies, information-integration learning integrates multiple strands of information.
We explain the sometimes surprising implications for practices like “productive struggle,” retrieval practice, spaced repetition, cognitive overload, and discovery learning.