Education as operating manual cum input device and brain as computer: Classroom implications

Researches in neuro-science and brain education in the 20th and 21st century have put forth that neurons in the brain work as electric wires passing signals from experiences of the senses and started using computer-brain metaphor for their further studies.

Human brain's neurons or memory cells constitute it and work both as biologically active hardware and software that receives signals from the content and cognitive processes of the mind got through incidentally and specifically constructed multi-sensory experiences via education and training by teachers, caregivers and other social institutions as well as direct social learning experiences from pears and other people.

We, as human beings, have body and senses to gain experiences or collect multi-sensory data from the world, both incidental or constructed (institutional education and mix it with our cognitive processes to be put it in our brain and stored via creating neural paths.

Thus, we all have brains, made of memory cells or neurons, which create neural paths in the for recall or retrieving stored experiential data or input cum cognitive processes or skills, if brain is seen a computer consisting of neurons forming logic-circuits in it.

Bad input in the computer mean bad outputs. Hence our education has be the quality education to produce quality outputs from the brain through recall and application. Education and learning have to create an operating manual in us to make use of the brain as a useful computer or machine.

The whole brain education is based on this precept that we learn various cognitive skills in a variety of ways to create our own operating manual and neural paths in the computer-brain to give best outputs in a dynamic way.

Implication of this is that 'never blame the child for not learning but as institution look-in and reflect to improve quality of education so that learning takes place'

The following three models have been designed from

the findings from neuro-science for classroom instruction: Information Processing Model; Whole Brain Education; and Multiple Intelligence Model