Learning -Social And Computational

At one level this is no surprise, but it's always good to take stock of the emerging evidence. Learning Is Both Social And Computational, Supported By Neural Systems Linking People: "principles that are emerging from cross-disciplinary work: learning is computational, learning is social, and learning is supported by brain circuits linking perception and action that connect people to one another"
Now this article is mostly focused on babies learning where I'm more looking for adult-learning related stuff. Nevertheless, we should recognise that we don't entirely leave behind the childhood stuff. I've just been on a conference where I was reminded that learning is still something we do all the time; we are either learning or consolidating or building on or revising our learning so far. "We can learn what to do by watching others, and we also can come to understand other people through our own actions," -we never stop doing that.

In another article on similar themes but analysed differently because the research is related to learning and artificial intellingence.

homo sapiens also draw on three uniquely human social skills that are fundamental to how we learn and develop: imitation, which accelerates learning and multiplies learning opportunities; shared attention, which facilitates social learning; and empathy and social emotions, which are critical to understanding human intelligence and appear to be present even in prelinguistic children.

It's the shared attention that got my attention because of the perspective I mention elsewhere of us always learning (I would say that we are defined in part as learning beings), then classroom or intentional learning has to be social and the chief mechanisms would be about co-ordinating shared attention. It seems to me that most things that we know about good teaching and learning devolve from that ...