Does Culture help you Grow?
By:Sasha Garcia
Question:
Do you think Culture helps cognition and memory ?
What do you think?
Well...
- There is a study that shows that culture activities using language can influence learning processes.
Well..
Their Thoughts
- The Tel Aviv University Study shows that culture actives suggest the use of language, can influence the way students learn in class.
- Affects their ability to collect different kinds of data to be able to make connects between them.
- Also affects the behavior of the students in the classroom.
What do they think?
"We believe that, over lengthy time scales, some aspects of the brain must have changed to better accommodate the learning parameters required by various cultural activities," said Prof. Arnon Lotem, of TAU's Department of Zoology.
- Prof Aron lead this study
Study
- The Evolution captured through small modifications of evolve learning also data acquisitions models. (American Friends of Tel Aivi University, 2017).
Continues..
- The Study includes a lot of improving the data acquisition with different activities.
- Some of the coordinated actions improves the brain, and the networks that supports the learning ability.
Continues..
- The Professors supported the learning phenomena as a language tool.
Main Professors in the Study:
Prof Lotem
Prof Joseph
Participants
Study Influence
- Prof Lotem developed the new learning model with Prof Joseph.
- The Study Included Animal and humans to see who develops cognition's.
- They use humans and animals in different activities to see who develop cultural congitions.
Activites used:
- They had them listen to a string of syllables, and have the see if they can define the words.
- Identify two different types of tress in a forest.
- These studies showed that the Chimpanzees actually more limited memory.
- The brain does a certain filtering to understand what is being processed.
Why were these Activities Important?
Activities
- Writing and Putting on a play in the classroom
- Creating cultural exhibits with artwork
These are just a few examples of cultural activities to develop cognition in the classroom.
What Activities can be used for a Cultural Classroom?
"Around the world people communicate with one another using a dazzling array of language which requires very different things from its speakers." (Borodisky, 2011).
- Ted Talk by Borodisky explained that culture shapes languages. For examples: Russians have different names for the color blue. In English there are different blues, that refer to shades of blue as regular blue.
- Diversity plays a big part in culture.
- Languages have a big effect on the way the brain works.
- Perceptions if the world and language speaker can have many tests.
Other Research
- According to Borodisky the language is what we speak, and this is the main perception of the world.
- Culture is what defines all of us as humans
- Language and Cognition is a hard principle, there are 7,000 languages that are spoken around the world.
- What are your thoughts on Cultural Learning?
- What are some Cultural Activities you will do in your own classroom?
- Do you think that Cultural Learning enhances your cogitation skills?
Dissuasion
Questions
The END..
Final
- Cultural shaped the evolution of the cognition is both more of a way to influence the students in the classrooms.There is an extensive computation on how students can learn in class.
- Language appears to be involved in many different aspects.
- The cultural changes making a difference in linguistics and cognition
- Teaching culture in the classroom has a huge impact.
- To teach students we have to understand expectations the students have.
American Friends of Tel Aviv University. (2017, August 4). Cultural activities may influence the way we think: A new learning model may explain how culture helped shape human cognition and memory. ScienceDaily. Retrieved March 30, 2020 from www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/08/170804103911.htm
Arnon, L., Joseph H. Y. , Shimon E., Oren K.. The evolution of cognitive mechanisms in response to cultural innovations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2017; 114 (30): 7915 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1620742114
How Language Shapes Thought (2011) Boroditsky, L.
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