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Defining the New Classroom: Neurotechnologies in Education
What is Neuroeducation?
“Neuroeducation (n) — the study of the activities that occur in the brain when individuals learn and the application of this knowledge to improve classroom instructional practices and optimize curriculum design.” — The APA Dictionary of Psychology. Neuroscience’s relationship with education has always been a controversial one — Parent Teacher Associations and bureaucratic school boards certainly have the louder voice when it comes to influencing children’s education. Despite that, we must continue to envision the best future for the next generation. The question that might define the next evolution of education is, does neuroeducation have a place in that future?
As a discipline, neuroeducation was born as a natural progression of the development of neuroscience. While psychology has always played an important and formative role in the development of teaching strategies and classrooms, neuroscience’s impact has been much more subtle. Despite this, it has already made a tangible contribution through its insight into learning disorders like dyslexia, autism, and ADHD with neurotechnologies like EEG-revealed-neuromarkers. The advancement of neurotechnologies in particular has bridged the gap between the education and neuroscientific fields through breakthroughs in neuroimaging and knowledge about…
