{"id":922,"date":"2010-05-23T14:12:05","date_gmt":"2010-05-23T01:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/science4all.blogtown.co.nz\/?p=922"},"modified":"2010-05-23T14:19:47","modified_gmt":"2010-05-23T01:19:47","slug":"how-do-we-see-and-learn-part-3-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/science4all.blogtown.co.nz\/?p=922","title":{"rendered":"How do we see and learn? (Part 3: Memory)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #008080\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cleanmpg.com\/photos\/data\/500\/Troll_s_Brain_and_memory.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"473\" height=\"328\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #008080\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080\">Everyone wants to learn faster and effectively. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080\">One way is to understand how the learner\u2019s brain processes in the learning environment.\u00a0Learning is the process of taking new information in your working memory and integrating it with existing knowledge in your long-term memory.\u00a0 Once it\u2019s in long-term memory you can recall it and transfer the knowledge to the real world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #008080\">Working memory<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #008080\">:\u00a0 Your working memory is good at processing information, but it can only hold so much at one time.\u00a0 All of your active thinking happens in the working memory. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #008080\">Long-term memory<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #008080\">:\u00a0 Your long-term memory is your storage center and holds your existing knowledge.\u00a0 In the learning process, you are connecting the new information to prior knowledge.\u00a0 As you actively process information, you are swapping it between working and long-term memory. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080\">The working memory is like a white board where you can do a lot of calculations and diagramming on the fly.\u00a0 On the white board, you need space to both write down information (temporary storage) and do your problem-solving (active processing).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080\">Often the problem is that you only have so much space.\u00a0 As the white board gets cluttered with information, you run out of room to work.\u00a0 That means you need to record the important information and free up space to do more work on the white board.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080\">One way to capture the information is to create post-it notes (long-term memory) to record the information on the white board.\u00a0 Once you you have the notes, you are free to erase the white board and do more work.\u00a0 And, if you needed to recall what you did earlier, all you have to do is look at one of your notes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080\">As you go through an learning process, what you see and hear enters your working memory where it is temporarily stored.\u00a0 Your brain actively processes the new information and integrates it with what you have stored in your long-term memory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080\">So, your brain is doing these things:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008080\">Receiving new information<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008080\">Actively processing the information<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008080\">Integrating the information with long-term memory<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080\">(ref: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.articulate.com\/rapid-elearning\/2007\/10\/\"><span style=\"color: #008080\">http:\/\/www.articulate.com\/rapid-elearning\/2007\/10\/<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #008080\">)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>There are numerous ways been suggested by the researchers about effective ways to transfer information to the learners. These are used to promote clear processing and life long memory of the information and teachers in classroom happen to use coloured movie clips and pens. Most of the schools have recognized the importance in providing resources and been proved to be effective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone wants to learn faster and effectively. One way is to understand how the learner\u2019s brain processes in the learning environment.\u00a0Learning is the process of taking new information in your working memory and integrating it with existing knowledge in your long-term memory.\u00a0 Once it\u2019s in long-term memory you can recall it and transfer the knowledge &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/science4all.blogtown.co.nz\/?p=922\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How do we see and learn? (Part 3: Memory)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1509,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"slim_seo":{"title":"How do we see and learn? (Part 3: Memory) - science4all","description":"Everyone wants to learn faster and effectively. 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