Summer Reading Groups on Intelligence Beyond the Brain Forming Now
Considering the impact of your teaching style and course design on your students can help you to create more effective learning experiences. This summer, we are reading the New York Times bestseller THE EXTENDED MIND: THE POWER OF THINKING OUTSIDE THE BRAIN (2021) by acclaimed science writer Annie Murphy Paul. The book highlights research that challenges conventional models of learning (and teaching) focused primarily on what happens inside our heads. Instead, Paul provides compelling examples of how learning can be understood as embedded and embodied in the people we engage with, the places where we interact, and the actions that we take. She argues, “A host of ‘extra-neural’ resources—the feelings and movements of our bodies, the physical spaces in which we learn and work, and the minds of those around us— can help us focus more intently, comprehend more deeply, and create more imaginatively.”
You are invited to join one of the Schreyer Institute’s sponsored reading groups for lively conversations that consider how the extended mind can be integrated into your teaching and learning practice. Let’s think outside of the box about what learning outside of the brain can look like. Participants will be eligible to receive a copy of the book while supplies last.
To register for a reading group, or to form your own, visit bit.ly/SITESummer25.
Sign up by May 16th, 2025.
