Getting Started 2025

Session 1 – Predictive Modelling, Movement and the Four Pillars of Learning.
This session will explore:

• The predictions we make, based on past experiences, help us manage new experiences. What happens when what we expect does not happen?
• Music is processed as movement in the brain. Why?
• The Four Pillars of Learning, devised by famed neuroscientist, Stanislas Dehaene, ensures that the brain develops deeply networked  knowledge, understanding and thinking skills. How are these pillars embedded in our pedagogy?

Session 2 – Movement shapes cognition, the Mirror System and Tools
Tools are perceived through the mirror system in the brain and develop our capacities for thinking and becoming skilful. When we use tools, we extend our thinking into the world. This externalisation makes thinking visible both to self and others. For teachers, this allows a window into the thinking of students and opportunities for building upon this. This session will explore how to embed these ideas into pedagogy.

Session 3 – Memory development and Language grounded in action
Through playing cups and tables, participants will reflect upon how memory is developed, how perception and action develop skills, and how language is grounded in the action of the body.