2. Importance of Interaction for the
BRAIN
• Interaction with
others/relationships
• Interaction with physical
environment
• Interaction with materials,
experiences, activities,
curriculum
6. Optimal Construction
10% Read it
20% Hear it
30% See it
50% See it and Hear it
55% See it and Take Notes
70% Teach Concepts to Someone Else
80% Experience it
Brain involvement – high percentage with experience and comprehension
through multiple channels
7. Power of Sensory Thought
It was something Frank Sam Nakai
had instructed him to do. “Memorize
places,” his uncle told him. “Settle
your eyes on a place and learn it.
See it under snow, and when the first
grass is growing, and as the rain falls
on it. Feel it and smell it, walk on it,
touch the stones, and it will be with you
forever. When you are far away, you
can call it back. When you need it, it is
there in your mind.”
• Tony Hillerman from The Ghostway
8. The Brain Within the Brain
New Brain
(Intellectual)
Adapted with permission from Bert First Brain
Decker (1992) You’ve Got to Be (Emotional)
Believed to Be Heard
