OEB 2015 - Tomorrow's New World: Extending the Reach of Learning - Lia Commissar

(Lia Commissar) Hi! This morning

I'm going to talk about education and
neuroscience,

both generally as a field
that's developing

but also, the specific work
that we've been doing in this field.

The Wellcome Trust -- OK --

the Wellcome Trust, for those of you
who don't know,

is the second largest charitable
foundation globally,

with the aim of improving health.

And it does that by funding lots of
bio-medical research, but also

by funding work in the social science
and humanities,

funding lots of education work,
doing lots of engagement work

and also lots of policy work.

So I'm going to talk through a few things
this morning.

Firstly, what has neuroscience got to do
with education?

What impact does it have on education
at the moment?

The work that we've been doing and then,
thinking about the future.

So, what has neuroscience got to do
with education?

Well, if education is about
learning something,

be it knowledge or a skill,

and neuroscience is the study of
the nervous system and the brain,

then they're pretty linked, in my opinion.

And it's not new to kind of talk about
the brain, in relation to education. 1:13