This is How Your Brain Actually Learns (The Brain Science Behind Our RAMP Tool)

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Today we're gonna talk a little bit more about why does it work the way that it does, what's the science, and why did we make what are actually some pretty unusual design choices here? Lee, so give me kind of the core background here, 'cause you really dug into this at some point.

Yeah.

So anyone who's been listening to a long time knows that Alison and I love to do research.

[laughs]

And when we are presented with some sort of an interesting problem or question, we typically read all the books about it.

[laughs] That's kind of what we do.

Sometimes we read them together, sometimes we hand them off.

But I got really interested in this idea of learning science and really how we learn and kind of the neuropsych around that.

And I think that it's an area that I realized that really hadn't been discussed that much.

I mean, I was a psych major in college, but no, I didn't take any classes on this in college.

[laughs] Like, I don't remember anyone really talking about this.

And neuroscience has changed a lot in the last 15 to 20 years with brain imaging.

So I think one of the things that was really interesting is that got into this idea that they, uh, now know how we learn in a way that we didn't know just not that long ago.

And we started reading neuroscience when we were studying another pet project, was really about attention and technology and what it might be doing to us, and so it all kind of started to connect, and we're reading about some of the same things.

So I got really into it, and then I started to get all the books, which is what happens.

[laughs]

And then I started reading the books, and then I started taking screenshots of pages and texting them to Alison, [laughs] basically.

I was like, "Huh, that is interesting."

I know.

I was like, "Whoa, check this out." And this was all during the same time that we had been talking about what the golly we were gonna do to help everyone prepare for the next gen, because it was starting to come up.

We had been going back and forth about the best way to study for the test.

And the learning science really injected into us as a team an idea that we could do something different, that maybe this test was an opportunity to mix things up and to use some of this science and really focus on the way that we learn, especially knowing how many students struggle with attention or have some sort of learning difference.

They estimate that maybe up to 25% of the population has some form of dyslexia or dysgraphia.

I can't even imagine what the ADHD numbers are these days, although most people admit that we struggle with some sort of attention due to the world that we live in with technology.