Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Learning Theory Blog Post 2
Using the information processing theory model, a child would be presented with information, that the teacher stresses as an important lesson. Therefore, the student focuses on this topic. From there, multiple lessons on the topic, and using different medias and strategies to get the topic across to the students, will cause the students to use their working memory. After much rehearsal, this topic will move from the working memory into the long term memory. If the student wants to retrieve the memory, words or actions will jog his/her memory and cause him/her to remember the topic.
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Remember that working memory is activated ALL the time, so it's not necessary to cause it to activate. Anything in conscious thought is working memory. THe teacher can direct attention to particular things (get it into working memory).
ReplyDeleteRehearsal DOESN'T move things to long term memory!! (<<This is important to understand) It only maintains information in conscious thought but it cannot move it to long term memory according to the IP model. Why are encoding strategies effective in moving things to LTM? (think about this a bit more and why repetition/rehearsal alone wont work)