Neuromyths in education

Today I'm talking about: “Neuromyths in education”. Why this topic?, because I believe that education is the most important process in our life and believe that educational processes can get better If we put attention to evidence of neuroscience research.

Now, I will be talking about neuromyths. For many years, myths about the brain, have persisted in schools and colleges and often have been used to justicate ineffective approaches to teaching and learning. This brings as consequence that many times learning and teaching interventions have not direct evidence about efficiency.

For example: many teachers and students believed that exist differences in hemispheric dominance (left brain or right brain) and this, can help to explain individual differences amongst learners. But this is incorrect, we have no evidence about this, we know that the brain works as a whole. In this regard, educational intervention focused on develop left brain or right brain skills, make no sense.

Other disseminated neuromyths it´s connected with learning style. Usually people thinks that students learning better if they perceive the information by particular sense. This gave birth to auditive, visual or kinesthetic student. But, just as in the previous example, we have not evidence about this.

I believe that educational processes can get better if we put attention on the evidence and we design  educational interventions based on it. .