The Science Of Education - Social Interaction The Latest Pop Hypothesis

Wednesday, September 23, 2009 - 09:28 in Psychology & Sociology

There's no shortage of new theories about how kids help to learn better.   Unfortunately when it comes to kids and education, the only way to measure success is after the fact when it may already be too late. The latest craze is social learning.  It says that infants and young children learn from imitation and by following the actions of those around them, adopting mannerisms and speech patterns.  A new study sought to compare television and computers versus face-to-face human interaction. read more

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