Chapter 3: Brain Research Applied to Middle School

This chapter focuses on an idea that students should be taught how to think. Not in a forceful, “you will have this view” type of way, but rather students are capable of thinking about situations and make conclusions based on what they know. The time needed to think is talked about in terms of giving students time to think when you ask a question and as a teacher also allowing yourself time to respond to their answer before you respond. That is an important idea to grasp, people are often worried about what they are going to say next that they are not listening to the people they are talking with. This type of interaction requires very little thought. The chapter also looks at some logical fallacies that middle school students should be aware of. You will encounter these types of fallacies everyday so creating a population of people that can decipher the information and take the truth from it would do wonders for the sensationalism out there. I hope to teach students how to think, this chapter will come in handy when I am dealing with students that are living in an information age, maybe it will help me help them see through the garbage.