Simplexity, Teaching and Movement

Abstract

Alain Berthoz, contrasts with the complexity term, the word “simplexity” indicating a property of living beings, which over time have learned to develop increasingly sophisticated solutions to process an increasing number of information. The simplexity is what gives meaning to simplification, since the simplexes solutions are guided by an intention, a purpose, a function. This theory can become an instructional scaffolding that supports both the student, and the teacher in the teaching- learning process. The simplexity has to be ascribed therefore, between those which constitute innovations in education.Educational Technologies simplexes show an operative strategy towards new forms of implementation, able to conjugate effectively with the current views of teaching, giving the body a central role in learning.Currently, the school excludes the component body underestimating the role of the body in motion as a main device through which, creating experiences, we develop learning and produce knowledge.From the studies conducted, it is clear, as today the body represents a machine of knowledge, so the abstraction and generalizations can produce useful learning only if they have been built from the experience of the world body. To this end, in our project we have tried to combine the learning of mathematics with the bodily component, all referring to the principles of simplexity.Our goal is to give life to a teaching able to activate a plurality of interactions and stimulate various body mechanisms from which derive the processes of signification and meaning attribution.