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A new way of presenting and mastering curricula

10.04.2018

What is the best way to present and assimilate educational information? With the support of NASA, neurophysiologists and psychologists from the University of Arizona dealt with this problem. The study took place over seven years, and its results are published on the pages of the institution's specialized bulletin.

It all started with a change in children's perception of images from printed text. It turns out that modern children, who are accustomed to perceive information through the picture of gadgets, a computer monitor, a TV screen and a cinema screen, cannot reproduce artistic images from printed text at all. If they read Dumas' Three Musketeers, then they are not able to see the Bois de Boulogne, the developing plumes on the hats of the guards, and so on. They have atrophied this ability because young people received such a picture ready-made.

If such a person is put in solitary confinement, then he will be deprived of "pictures" of memories of the past, since he does not have the ability to reproduce them without the necessary tools: gadgets, TV, computer and other devices.

This circumstance prompted Arizona scientists to develop a special method of presenting and assimilation of educational information, which is based on the utmost interactivity and will soon be in demand by students who are outside the Earth's orbit, civilization and galaxy.

This technology of future learning enables the trainees themselves to correct the process of cognition of the subject, the problems of the world, the complex of problems, and so on.

The course has so far been compiled for a complex of natural science disciplines and a mathematical block, since these subjects, in contrast to the humanities, fit better into the space of formal logic.

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