From: "Rhonda Chapman" <spirit_tmp@email.msn.com> To: <virus@lucifer.com> Subject: Re: virus: Learning anew. Date sent: Sat, 15 May 1999 09:55:45 -0700 Send reply to: virus@lucifer.com
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Veverka <headbands@webtv.net>
> To: virus@lucifer.com <virus@lucifer.com>
> Date: Saturday, May 15, 1999 9:05 AM
> Subject: Re: virus: Learning anew.
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>
> When someone is learning a new task (or whatever), the brain shows a lot
> of activity in the corresponding regions of the brain. After this task
> becomes "rote" the brain shows much less activity while performing the
> same task.
>
> How would this knowledge help in teaching and learning to replace old
> "rote" ideas?? These pathways would have to be shook up in learning
> anew. (Like you folks are doing to me!)
>
Check out "Five Steps from Novice to Expert", pp. 16-51, in MIND
OVER MACHINE (1986) by Hubert L. & Stuart E. Dreyfus.