When dealing with cognitive learning, it is important for teachers to present information in ways that students can moved from short-term (working memory) to long term memory. Dr. Orey states that "integrating multiple senses in presentation improves learning"(Orey, DVD) and instructional strategies introduce during week 3 is a great way to start. Organizing information and limit the amount of information is important for cognitive practices. Not enough information will not help the students on assessments and to much information the student will forget and will not be able to process in an efficient way.
Concepts map, virtual field trips, summarizing, and note taking are all great tools for teachers to deliver information in short and organized way to maximize learning. Concepts maps, students are able to group ideas that relate to the main idea. This strategy can help students break down information into small segments where students can use their short term memory to process and move it to long term memory for future recalling. Summarizing is a way for students to process information from one teacher lesson and put it the major concepts into their own words. This helps with the process of elaborating because students are able to connects ideas and information in words they can associate with. This goes back to cognitive learning theory because students are able to create a mechanism for storing information into long term memory.
Virtual field trips are a great way to practice cognitive learning because are able to see images and see artifacts from the exact place without being there. Students are able to experience more with this type of technology in the classroom. Images help students moving information from short term memory to long terms. Virtual field trips gives students information as if they were on a field trip. With the interaction features, students are able to go in depth with learning about a particular place or an event and relate it to personal experiences. All these strategies are multiple ways of delivering information to students in an organized manner to help students process the information from their working memory to long term memory. Using a variety of these different strategies, allows teachers to reach students of all learning types.
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The instructional strategies that we learned about this week are great for cognitive learning. Paivio's dual coding theory was mentioned, where it is stated that images are more easily remembered and processed into long term memory than text. Virtual field trips and concept mapping provide students with images for better understanding.
ReplyDeleteAs teachers, we know that students learn best when presented with the information in a variety of ways using different strategies. In your opinion, which strategy do you think is more meaningful for your students?
Thanks,
Melissa Herb
Melissa,
ReplyDeleteI think the more you can provide students with visual information the more opportunity students have to learn. Our society dictacts how we process information for examples menus in resturant, they provide a picture of their items; commericals on tv, we remember the company because of the images we see. Video clips, pictures, songs integrated in the lesson provides ways for learning other than pencil and paper. Being creative in how you present information is the best suggestion I can give. Not one strategy works for all students.