Brain Based Learning Information Processing

How the Brain Processes Information

Brain Based Learning

Monkey See Monkey Do?

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The Information Processing Model

What should educators do with the information we are going to learn

today?

- Reflect on their methodology

-Decide if there are new insights that could affect their instruction and improve

learning

The Senses

Use your clicker to answer True or False to the questions below.

1. Our brain takes in more information from our environment in a single day than a computer does in a year.

2. The thalamus is a system for screening all the data than comes into the brain to determine the importance to the individual.

Complete the Sensory

Preference Survey

Keep in Mind

Students with different sensory preferences will

behave differently during learning.

Teachers tend to teach they way they

learn.

Short Term Memory

Use your clicker to answer True or False to the questions below.

1. Short term memory has one part; the immediate memory.

2. The brain’s main job is to learn new data.

3. How a person “feels” about a learning situation determines the amount of attention devoted to it.

4. The amount of working memory you have increases as you get older.

Working Memory

Capacity of Working Memory

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Long Term Memory

Use the clicker to answer True or False to the questions below.

1. Learners who can perform a new learning task well are likely to retain it.

2. Helping students make connections between subject areas by integrating the curriculum increases meaning and retention.

3. Information is most likely to be stored if it makes sense and is easy to understand.

Meaning and Sense

Information Processing Model

Self Concept

Important Information Every Educator Should

Know

• Learning occurs more easily in environments free from threat and intimidation.- If a student detects a threat, thoughtful processing gives

way to emotion or survival reactions.

- Teachers can make their classrooms better learning environments by make it more democratic and allowing children to express their opinions in discussions.

•Humor has physiological, psychological, sociological, and educational benefits.- It gets students attention, creates a positive climate,

increases retention, improves everyone’s mental health, and is an effective discipline tool.

Important Information Every Educator Should

Know

•Motivation increases processing time.- Design lessons that include references to students

interests as often as possible.

- Hold the students accountable for the new learning.

- Provide prompt, specific, and corrective feedback because it will encourage them to continue processing, making corrections, and retaining.

•Create meaning in new learning.- Why do I need to know this?

- Model, create artificial meaning, and use examples from the students experiences.

Important Information Every Educator Should

Know

•Use closure to enhance sense and meaning.- Use closure time to access quality and accuracy of

responses and make necessary to teaching .

- During closure, students do most of work by rehearsing or summarizing information.

- Closure can be at any time during the lesson.

- Closure is an investment that can pay off big time in increased retention.

• Testing Long Term Storage.- Give test no sooner than 24 hours after learning.

- Test exactly what should have been retained

- Surprise learner, provide no preparation time.