The Brain and Education

The Brain and Education: A Story of Three Loops Paul Grobstein Overbrook Elementary School, Philadelphia 19 November 2008

Learning as conflict resolution:

• Learning by acting (loop 1)
  
• Learning by reflecting (loop 2)
• Learning by interacting (loop 3)

Education as the creation of productive conflict

Trying it out ...

Applying the story generally

• Voyage to Serendip
  
• The game of life
• The magic Serpinski triangle
• The four color problem

Encouraging further exploration:

K-12 summer institutes

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