Learning & Cognitive processes

What: The last 2 weeks we have been learning about cognitive processes, just about how information is learned, stored, organized, and how we recall it.

So What: It is importatn to know exactly how memories are created and how things are remembered because as teachers we want our students to remember what they are learning. We want them to be able to recall the things we teach and the things that they are learning. It is our job to teach, but even more to teach in such a way that the information is engaging and useful for the students so that they will be able to use it.

Now What: Well just because we have learned how the brain encodes and how we learn best doesn't always come into play. As teachers we will conciously have to think about ways to connect and certain ways to teach so that the information isn't misconcieved and that the students will be able to recall it. We had our own little assignment to use a study technique that we had learned about that increased our ability to remember or to organize information and it was really hard because it was something that we were not used to, and a lot of this stuff we are learning is going to be like that, but we just have to remember that the way we have always done things may not be the best way and we need to look around and try new things.