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12 BRAIN/MIND NATURAL LEARNING PRINCIPLES

When body, brain and mind are conceived of as dynamic unity, then it becomes possible to identify core general aspects of how this system learns.Each Principle reveals a capacity that all students have for learning language and comprehending text.

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Principle #8: Learning is both conscious and

unconscious.

Your Conscious Mind.

Processes 7 + 2 chunks of information at one time

Your Unconscious Mind

Processes 4 million bits of information

per second

Your Unconscious Mind

Imagine …

Your Unconscious Mind

A building

As large as:

Your Unconscious Mind

A Super Wal*Mart

Your Unconscious Mind

A Super Wal*Mart

Filled With

Neuro-Connections in Your Mind

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• 101010 Neuro-connections in your mind

Learning involves layers of consciousness. Some learning requires a person to consciously attend to a problem that needs to be solved or analyzed. What we call "active processing" allows students to review how and what they've absorbed so they begin to take charge of their learning and of the development of personal meaning.

ConsciousConscious

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At other times, people who study learning as an unconscious process call it incubation. The creative insights of artists and scientists sometimes occur after the mind has done some intellectual process. Meaning is not always available on the surface. Meaning often happens intuitively in ways that we don't understand. So that, when we learn, we use both conscious and unconscious processes

UnconsciousUnconscious

Conscious - Unconscious Functions of the Mind

Conscious Unconscious

• Thinks sequentially • Thinks simultaneously

• Is logical • Is cybernetic

• Thinking (secondary experience) • Feeling (most primary

experience)

Conscious - Unconscious Functions of the MindConscious Unconscious

• Aware only of the present • Storehouse of memories

• Voluntary movement • Involuntary movement

• Tries to understand problems • Knows the Solution

Conscious Unconscious

• Chooses/directs outcome • Makes outcome happen

• Deliberate • Automatic

• Verbal • Nonverbal

• Analytical • Synthetic

Conscious - Unconscious Functions of the Mind

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CuriousCurious factfactWe learn much more than we ever consciously understand. Most of the signals that are peripherally perceived enter the brain without our awareness and interact on unconscious levels. This is why we say that learners become their experience and remember what they experience, not just what they are told.

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ConclusionConclusion

An essential key to improving performance in any field, and to improve learning, is to become aware of how one functions and then to intentionally develop additional capacities. This is possible because at the heart of all learning is a very basic feedback loop.