Goody, humans. Welcome to the safe space for dangerous ideas. It's a dangerous question for

anyone who is trying to teach themselves a new skill or help their kids to learn. How exactly

are humans hardwired to learn best? How do you feel most naturally drawn to learning? Does it come easily or is it hard? Are you drawn to

e-readers or to physical books? Are you someone who prefers typing or handwriting? Do you like

duolingo or do you like moving to a Tuscan villa and drinking wine and arguing about

Epicureanism? Look, to each their own,

I'm not here to judge. I just feel like we're all kind of aware of the problem of smartphones

and social media and kids and screen time. But the problem may be deeper, according to today's

guest. We may actually be hardwired in our brains and even in our bodies

to learn in tactile lo-fi, even Luddite ways.

We're hardwired to learn in ways that technology just can't reproduce.

So educational technology has been rolled out in schools all over the world at a massive pace.

Tablets and crime books are everywhere, and they're supposed to tailor education specifically

to the child.

Was the entire thing a giant scam, and is it actually causing schools to fail?

Today's guest is Jared Cooney-Horvath.

He does education-related brain and behavioral research.

He's a neuroscientist, and he's the director of the science of learning group and of neuroeducation,

where he tries to take his research and apply it to the education space.

He's lectured and researched at Harvard University.

He's been published in The New Yorker and The the economist and the Atlantic and the New York Times and

Scientific American and a new scientist. I could go on and on and on. He's got a new book. It's called

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