Big Think What we get wrong about learning — and how to reframe it
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Jun 25, 2025 
In this enlightening discussion, Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, a neuroscientist and USC professor, explores the transformative potential of community in education. She highlights how diversity and social connections can enhance brain growth and learning experiences. Immordino-Yang argues for moving away from standardized testing to a more human-centered approach that values lived experiences and collaboration. By fostering strong social fabrics in schools, educators and students can co-create meaningful learning journeys that adapt to the complexities of the world.
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Shift Education's Center to Experience
- Our education system wrongly centers on external judgment instead of learners' developmental processes.
- We need a Copernican shift focusing on experiences, thinking, relationships, and agency within educational communities.
Humans as Ecological Systems
- Humans are dynamic ecological systems, continuously adapting to their social environments.
- We co-create each other's social fabric by living together and shaping shared environments.
Learning as Communal and Dynamic
- Effective learning environments are deeply communal, reflecting human development as dynamic and situated.
- This perspective reshapes education's purpose to enable human growth and repair communities.