Quite simply, we can teach better, as a society, when we better know how students learn. A lot of research has been done through classroom observation. But getting down to learning from a neurocognitive perspective, can really help researchers better assess what works and what doesn’t.
Jonah Firestone, from WSU Tri-Cities, runs a lab, called… wait for it… The Simulation and Integrated Media for Instruction Assessment and Neurocognition Site. No joke… this is the name of it. As you can imagine, there’s an acronym: SIMIAN. Jonah tells us about SIMIAN, and, his love of sci fi.
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