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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.
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