HISTORY146 - The Way We Learn
Once again, this blog arose out of talking with Pat, who was telling me how interesting it was to remember people in her past law-librarian and knitting-store-owner lives who strongly preferred different methods of learning (visual or reading) to prepare law cases and to learn to knit. That talk led to the “history of the way we learn” as a blog topic. After an introduction to different personal learning styles, I will discuss the history of the way we learn in succeeding historic eras, including prehistory, early civilizations, the Middle Ages, the early printing press era, the Industrial Revolution, the rise of the science behind how we learn, and the digital age. I will finish with a snapshot of learning in the future. As usual, I will list my principal sources at the end. Introduction Today, we know that humans learn by actively connecting new information to their existing knowledge, physically rewiring the brain’s neural networks through repeated...