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Post Seven: The Neroscience of Storytelling 4/4/2020

human beings learn more effectively when information is packaged into stories. Agree or disagree? What in your personal experience leads you to form your opinion?

I think I agree with this. Storytelling is a good way for people to receive concise information in a way that makes it easier to understand information that would otherwise be hard to obtain or hard to process. For example, some historical events are told through stories of people who were either present at the event and went through it, or people on the sidelines that had some sort of experience with it. It’s easier to understand these occurrences when it’s broken down into easy-to-understand segments that outline a timeline of events with facts and information about the time put in. Stories about personal experiences during a time that shaped our history is easier and more interesting to digest than just listing off facts or statistics. In my personal experience, reading books about events in time that convey the story in a personal way have made my learning experience more interesting. Stories like Night by Ellie Weisel or The Diary of A Young Girl by Anne Frank that tell a story about a period in time from that person’s point of view adds something to the event that wouldn’t have been added otherwise. I have read both of these books and they were definitely more riveting to read than a textbook. I learned a lot from reading them and it made it easier to understand how people thought and how the world worked in those times based on someone who experienced it’s perspective. Overall I do agree that wrapping info into a story is better for learning overall and allows the audience to understand things easier and with more interesting points that keep the viewer’s attention.