Intelligence "Brain Settings" Open to Imrovement

Intelligence As Brain "Settings" Open To Intervention

With our knowledge of Artificial Intelligence we can understand what "settings" refers to. It is the master set up that underpins all other Apps or functions or operations in a digital device.

Settings are changed and selected by the user. Settings can be changed so that a device works according to the user's intentions.

A child's brain can be described as having established a particular setting when a child forms patterns of thinking that operate consistently.

This can also be described as the child's habits of mind. It starts to affect all of the thinking and learning the child does such as gathering information from the 5 senses, interpreting those information signals, processing them and responding to the desired outcome for the purpose of survival and growth.

These habits or settings can be beneficial to the child intellectual pursuits or or it can cause limitations if wrong habits are formed.

The brain keeps strengthening these networks or patterns or settings to  for future use. They consolidate and crystalise and become a child's typical thinking behaviours when faced with thinking or learning or problem solving.

It can be summarised that the degree to which the child applies their thinking skills depends on the his or her "personal thinking settings" OR their ability to spark the depth and breath of their mental operations.

The child consistently applies their thinking settings to react to stimulus, process the received information, and respond accordingly. Everything in the environment that is perceived via the senses to exercise thinking is affected by these settings.

Books, for example, do not think, nor do classrooms or any other environment or objects of learning. None of these would make any difference to a child's learning if their personal thinking settings are compromised.

SETTINGS CAN BE CHANGED

When thinking skills are seen as a brain settings then it also imples that these settings can be changed and improved. It suggests that a child's learning habits, attitude and patterns of behaviour and their ability to change and adapt can be taught, coached and trained, and re-set.

INTELLIGENCE AS APPS IN THE BRAIN KNOWN AS MENTAL OPERATIONS OR APPLICATIONS

Like in any machinery, "operations" implies a need to action or apply. Without operation a machine would remain in its dormant state.

Thinking skills are like mental operations in the brain.

In this operation the different types of thinking such as comparing, analysing, synthesising etc can be seen as gears to apply for the right function or operation. Thinking, therefore, is operated in degrees of poor to excellent qualities.Whether it is problem solving, critical thinking, decision making, understanding, judging, evaluating or any other cognitive demand, the quality of these MENTAL OPERATIONS determines a child's success or failure.

Without sufficient development and effective functioning of these mental operations, learning would be difficult, if not impossible