Ch. 6 Learning Log

What?
In class today we learned about learning and cognitive processes. In this chapter we learned about your memory and how you remember things. We use a model of Human Memory which is:

Sensory Register-
Working (short-term) Memory
Long-term Memory

Your memory goes in through your brain and goes to the thalamus. From there it goes out to the certain lobes that the memory pertains too. It goes back and forth multiple times between the hippocampus and amygdale. You retain memory into either your short-term or long-term memory. Its important to remember this like a filing cabinet. It is very important to retain this information and file it away into the certain areas. That way it is easier to pull the information back out.

So What?
This is very important to know about how your memory is stored in helping you to remember things better. Different people remember things differently and in better ways than others. We don’t all remember things the same way. When knowing these other ways that students learn it will help us in being a better teacher.

Now What?
From knowing these different ways it will help us in teaching our future students. We want our students to not just remember things in the short-term memory. We can help to improve their memory but teaching certain different ways. Not just by teaching with having the students write things down, we need to have the read, write and actually visualize what they are learning. The more ways we teach a concept the more the students will remember.