In my book If Jesus Gave a TED Talk, I don’t suggest that if you apply the neuroscience techniques I suggest in it, that learning will automatically happen in the learners in your context. However, neuroscience informs us, and Jesus illustrates to us how we can best effect durable learning. But ultimately it requires a learner’s active engagement and God’s work to effect transformation.
I expand upon these broad ideas in the book.
1. Learning engages the total person (thinking, feeling, and physically doing).
2. The brain seeks patterns to find meaning.
3. Emotions powerfully affect learning.
4. Past learning impacts future learning.
5. Memory (working memory) has a limited functional capacity.
6. To retain you must rehearse.
7. Practice makes permanent, not perfect.
This article is adapted from Charles Stone’s book, If Jesus Gave a TED Talk: 8 Neuroscience Principles the Master Teacher Used to Persuade His Audience (available at online retailers)
