Previously, we mentioned how building the right neural connections in the brain can significantly enhance your child’s abilities and learning speed. It’s like building a bridge to cross a river instead of taking a longer route around it, thereby avoiding unnecessary energy expenditure from travelling a greater distance.
Just as how a bridge can minimize travel time, strong neural connections wired properly can reduce the cognitive load on the brain, allowing for less mental effort to achieve similar or better outcomes. In this post, we will discuss how fluid learning can transform your child into a super thinker.
Nurturing Super Thinkers
Contrary to popular belief, many people attribute the ability to learn fast and think critically to genes. In reality, 99% of people never realize their genetic potential for intellectual growth. While our genes may set the upper limit of our cognitive abilities, much like the screen size of a computer, most of us never develop the neural connections – the pixels – needed to fill even half that screen.
There are numerous factors that prevent us from reaching our full potential. Inadequate nutrition can impede our brain’s ability to form neural connections, while poor learning methods can wire our brains in ways that stifle its potential. It’s like using a knife to cut a tree, while it eventually gets the job done, the process requires much more effort and time.
Much of modern learning today is focused on rapid knowledge acquisition over cognitive development. This often leads to children developing negative habits to store information using unnatural techniques. Unfortunately, these negative habits are often mislabelled as learning styles, leading to misguided teaching methods that wire the child in a manner that hinders their potential.
It is like classifying someone as “rude” or “lazy”, rather than focus on identifying and addressing the underlying causes of their behaviour. Instead, we create styles to reinforce their negative habits like providing excessive help to the “lazy” or giving too much to the “greedy”.
For instance, some learners are wired to engage in mindless consumption instead of critical engagement. These individuals simply listen or read without questioning or analyzing. Research indicates that this approach leads to a delayed thinking process or much slower thinking speed, requiring considerably much more mental effort to process the information subsequently. This leads to learners feeling quickly overwhelmed and easily drained.
At Eduwerkx, we recognize these negative learning habits and offer a more constructive path towards positive change. We understand that developing the right learning habits can greatly accelerate your child’s learning and thinking speed. This is why we prioritize a meaningful learning experience over simply accumulating hours of study.
We understand that the most skilled racers are not drivers who spend endless hours on the road. Through personalized learning and gamification techniques, we create a quality learning experience for your child to develop positive habits, setting the stage for becoming an exceptional learner and thinker.
Our fluid learning methods teaches different parts of the brain to work together to solve problems. The more extensive the training, the greater the gains in fluid intelligence. Regular practice leads to the development of more robust neural networks, enabling faster information processing and ultimately quicker thinking.
Children with high fluid intelligence have the ability to use what they know in many different ways. Their adaptability allows them to continuously update their knowledge and understanding, ensuring it always remains relevant and up-to-date.
Their strong ability to quickly form connections between different pieces of information ensures strong retention, making it difficult to forget and thus accumulating a robust knowledge base over time. This strong knowledge base acts as a valuable resource, making it easier to connect new information to what they already know, which in turn further accelerates learning speed, thinking speed and retention.
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