My university had an advertising campaign that claimed we were good for "Both sides of the brain". Imagine how senior administration felt when my psychology and neuroscience colleagues pointed out that this campaign made the entire university look stupid.

I am an educator, and I can tell you that many of these myths won’t die because they keep getting recycled in the world of K-12 education. It really is rather frustrating when you are sitting in professional development and this stuff gets brought up and you’re left there sitting wondering how much real research is behind this stuff. I watched both of the videos you had posted about learning styles a couple of years ago and they were so enlightening. They gave me the why for all of the questions I had when these professional development sessions kept bringing up this information.

@captainzork6109

4 ай бұрын

Sounds tough! If they're reasonable, though, you may be able to convince them it's not true? For example, by saying you wanted to learn more about it, and you came across this video created by someone with a PhD relevant to the topic which debunks certain misunderstandings. People tend not to want to be fooled, and they tend to like debunkings P:

@rashidah9307

2 ай бұрын

@@captainzork6109 Professional development resources in the field of education come from many different sources and organizations. It's very hard to contain or control, especially when you have teaching professionals who learned ideas in their education that have since then been debunked. Yes, you could correct an individual or perhaps an individual organization, but this won't fix the problem in the larger educational community, unfortunately.

@captainzork6109

2 ай бұрын

@@rashidah9307 Yes, the problem of misinformation is a tough one. It's a problem I've had in mind for a long time now, but have not found substantial answers for yet. When it comes to teaching professionals though, the obvious answer is a culture of being open to improve one's methods. To learn how to teach is a life long endeavor, after all. I think Johann Friedrich Herbart had a good point about that

Loved the ending about detecting the myths. I always got the sense that the promise of "untapped potential and ease of learning" sounded a lot like the get-rich-quick schemes and promises of passive income. You captured it excellently. The lack of specificity is also interesting, especially as it comes under the guise of specificity. Giving a percentage sounds very scientific. "X% of people, or Y% of the brain". But it falls apart when you ask how it's measured. Excellent work.

@benjaminkeep

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it!

I really like this video! One thing that I believe strongly is that there is no such thing as "effortless" learning. True, efficient learning is always hard work.

Ben!!! This is an amazing video that had me laughing out loud throughout. During my time working in education, I kid you not, some of these myths were being thrown around by colleagues of mine, who presented themselves as people who were well-versed in learning, as well as being enshrined in much of the infrastructure of the educational institutions. Thanks so much for putting this together and I can't wait to see more videos in this style.

@benjaminkeep

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, it's crazy how much misinformation travels through sanctioned, professional communities. Thanks for the compliments! Hope to make more content like this soon.

@alextaws6657

8 ай бұрын

...and i regularly hear these and other myths from my (psych major!) students: "this is what we learned in educational psychology" 🤦 then i am in the very uncomfortable pickle of trying to correct these notions without damaging my colleague's reputation... 😬

One thing I didn't agree with was the bike riding learning process. If you already know how to ride a bike, but you watch a professional bike racer, you can still improve your own bike riding by observation of their better technique and noting down changes you can make to your own.

It for sure worked! Thanks for debunking these myths Ben. Here in Latin America, learning styles are still used to "know students". Instead of that, at least in EFL teaching, using a variety of activities, methods, strategies and interesting topics would work better. I'm loving your series about how learning works🙏

Yes I like this format way better than stating the 5 myths!

That last bit about how cultural aspects create scientific myths is super important, thank you for the video!

Thank you so much for your time and effort!

Especially the slipperiness vs. scientific critical stance are very hard to distinguish, even for scientists (who should be trained in exactly that). Great video! Thank you very much!!!

I loved your video...people doesn't make the myth about learning that's why I came into yours, and i learnt alot ,but not only from the hippocampus

This is my favorite video of yours so far 🤗👏🤗. And yes, this approach DOES work for me! My whole brain 🧠 was happy. (And that Veritassium bike 🚴 video is mind blowing 🤯)

@benjaminkeep

2 жыл бұрын

Many thanks! I've been planning this one for a while and took a bit of effort to make, but hope to keep improving. 😁 (Yes - the analogy to balancing a stick on your hand particularly struck me for some reason.)

@KathySierraVideo

2 жыл бұрын

@@benjaminkeep seeing the bike balancing itself down the hill was 🙀. I’m really enjoying the way you use yourself to represent *different*, contrasting, etc. I can imagine this was a lot of effort! Also caught a cameo appearance of your go board 👏

Thank you for the citations. Really helpful 👍

Great video, I really like you engagement and clarity on the concepts. Instant sub!

i love this channel, thank you so much

thank you for this video. As an educator, this is valueable info to me!

Loved this format, it's great to know which truth is related to what myth, it's a great service to have someone to spread awareness of how learning actually works! Keep the good work going 🎉❤

heyyy love the editing and content(helping us)! Please keep it up

Super useful approach.

I'm fond of the approach 🌷 btw, I'm a teaching student and I find your channel incredibly useful cause of evidence you know 🌷🌷🌱

Thank you so much! Love your videos! I would pay for a course on learning techniques

@benjaminkeep

Жыл бұрын

I am working on something... so it's good to know. : ) Thanks!

this approach totally worked for me. Must be my learning style.:)

I enjoyed the way this was presented. The truth gave me some ground for comparison. I’ve heard something along the line that we can process visual information much faster than words, so in that way can it be said visual learning if possible may be a faster way to learn than reading?

I liked this approach of truths a lot! good energt

Thanks Bro... It helped me.

Best learning coach on KZread by far

Hello Benjamin!! I greatly value your simplicity and the content you put for us. Please make a very elaborate video on different ways of encoding. Make it very elaborate if you could. I'm understanding what encoding is but finding it extremely difficult to put into practice. I've tried making fill in the blanks questions to actively generate information but after a week of making lots of fill in the blanks it feels monotonous and not as efficient. I'm assuming I don't understand encoding thoroughly yet. An elaborate video will be super useful for me.

@alextaws6657

8 ай бұрын

Oh yeah, i would be interested in that very much, too!

Please make some videos on foreign language acquisition!

Love that white t-shirt at 2:20 😊

Uncle Ben I appreciate you 🤘🏾

Your presentation style does work for me. But I habitually expose myself to a variety of presentation styles in order to become accustomed to them anyway. I believe that, for most people, being presented with factual information at the outset, before being presented with the myths, is probably less confusing than other presentation styles. JPB

I loved this presentation method - it always had me coming back to the truth first, rather than coming back to the myth and thinking "what was the truth again?". Just like when someone says "don't do X" - the thought is still "do X", and you have to think again in order to negate it. (Maybe that's just anecdotal!) Are there any studies more explicitly exploring the role of emotional responses to material being learned ("Ah-ha!" or "That's interesting!", or the opposite) and retention/learning?

@benjaminkeep

Жыл бұрын

Great! That's what I was going for. : ) On emotional responses to learning.... the things that come immediately to mind are: frustration/confusion - a kind of mixture of these two is associated with effective learning on online problem platforms. As long as these feelings are not too extreme. stress - high levels of stress or anxiety tend not to help learning/memory (or rather, memory is increased for the sources of the anxiety/stress, but reduced for other things). I want to say that being calm and happy is also associated with positive learning outcomes (but would have to double-check). I'm sure there's a ton of other research out there. Would be an interesting video topic. It's hard to manipulate emotions outside of laboratory settings, so you can say things like "X is generally associated with feeling Y," but then that doesn't necessarily mean that if you try to generate feeling Y you're going to get X in a practical setting.

I really got lured into your Truth, Myth, Substantiation presentation explanation as I sought out the slippery sweet, yet easier to swallow, myth between the Hard Crusty truth of reality. Quite conveniently there was just a handful of Myths. Just enough for me to grasp during the Ten minutes or so that you focused on them. For each I found myself relating your Truth to my preconception. Then evaluating it with the myth and reformulating my thoughts using your explanation. Each was served up in a different way. Hope my feedback helps your Scientific endeavour to make a sliced-bread loaf out of the stale, dry, crusty education system.

I love your videos!

PLEASE MAKE A VIDEO ABOUT LEARNING AND SLEEP!

@benjaminkeep

Жыл бұрын

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Thanks 😊

Ben! Thanks for confirming to me what I have been thinking about for years in regards to learning styles. Can I ask you if being smart frustrates you? When you see common beliefs held by others which are just myths?

I've always understood the "10% of the brain" quote to mean that most people are spending most of their time passively thinking (watching tv, re-reading, etc) instead of spending more time on actively solving problems

thank you!!

Yes, this approach was great

thank for this video dude

math for example is a construction you can not learn derivation if you don't know function and you can't understand function wihout understand applications between sets .... How we can learn math?

Yes it worked. 🙏🏼

@eddiew2325

7 ай бұрын

will u go out with me

I have a doubt. I'm riding a bike, and to go left I need to go right first. I assume that to go right in first place I need to go left by analogy. But I can't go left without going right. Isn't this a contradiction and I end up only being able to go straight with my bike? So how do I solve this?

@benjaminkeep

Жыл бұрын

Watch Veritsium's video on the physics of bike riding.

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Summary: Myth 1: There is such a thing as left brained people and right brained people Why? The brain operates via connections between parts and those parts have various, overlapping jobs, but one hemisphere is not dominant over another in a particular person. Myth 2: Sleep learning is possible Why? Sleep is vital to processing information and if you distract your brain, it may actually inhibit a restful night of sleep. *there are tricks to help you learn better* Myth 3: that we use only 10% of our brain Why? If you are using 10% of your brain, then you might be comatose or dead. Your brain functions on cyclical activity and we have variations in the patterns of usage. Myth 4: There exist auditory, visual, etc. "types" of learners Why? There are many different ways people learn and diff factors or challenges may help/inhibit learning. Ever tried learning geometry from just speech? Myth 5: Dale’s Cone of Experience Why? The kind of activity that’s going to best help you depends on your goals. If you’ve never done something, it may help to watch them do it before attempting it yourself. Overall: myths are related to grifting and there’s a lack of specificity with falsely precise numbers sprinkled in.

Fields like mathematics require a ton of creativity so I wonder where this "right-brain" / "left-brain" nonsense came from.

I would say a learning styles inventory is a good way to determine what a person's natural learning _preferences_ are, and then use that knowledge as a jumping off point, allowing it to inform how we might approach early and/or one-off lessons. "Meet them where they are," so to speak. What are your thoughts on this approach, Ben?

@JakeRichardsong

9 ай бұрын

He said there is no evidence supporting the idea of 'learning styles'.

@HickoryDickory86

9 ай бұрын

@@JakeRichardsong I know. I watched the video. That's why I asked if learning styles inventories would be good to discern a student's learning _preference,_ and starting there before incorporating other methods. We all have preferences, i.e. how we _prefer_ to learn new material. Thus, we may be more open and receptive to that, even if there is no statistical benefit to using that method over time. Essentially a "meet them where they are" approach, introducing them to new material in the way they _prefer_ (to grab attention) before quickly incorporating other proven methods and techniques.

@HickoryDickory86

8 ай бұрын

@@JakeRichardsong You have deficits in reading comprehension. I never said there were. I talked about "learning styles inventories" because that's what they are called, regardless of whether or not "learning styles" exist.

@JakeRichardsong

8 ай бұрын

Reported for harrassment.

@JakeRichardsong

8 ай бұрын

"I would say a learning styles inventory is a good way to determine what a person's natural learning preferences are..." A study found that students who used their preferred 'learning style' did not perform any better on a test than students who did not use their preferred 'learning style'. The opinion is just an opinion and is not supported by any research or facts.

Math is the most misunderstood art form

It’s a bad idea to teach people about wrong ways to do things. After watching this presentation, the oversimplification of the previous sentence makes it seem myth-like. Now, how can I get that 10% out of my mind?

nice head shape it might be an indicator of a smart person lol

Implicit learning is best form of learning. It is slow but virtually effortless.

Many people will interpret what you said in point 1 in a way that there are no differences between hemispheres. Therefore your video unintentionally become source of spread misconception. The distinction on matematical and artistic brain, yes, is false. Both activities involve both hemispheres. But lateralization of the brain is a fact and both hemisphers have different ways of processing informations and in result give different psychological qualities. We can say they are grasping reality in different way. I would like to see your video that address this topic in proper manner and is linked here as disclaimer.

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