Cognitive learning theory

COGNITIVE LEARNING THEORYCartoon: Sound of animals

By: Purtaub Avinash ID: 1247166

Scene 1 Teacher Mr. Sam finds it confusing to make his students learn about the different sounds made by animals. The school textbook has an activity whereby there is a matching exercise on the sounds made by seven animals.

Scene 2 Mr. Sam decides to put all animals together on a PowerPoint as slideshow to display on the desktop projector and a set of speakers, as an aid for the students to recognize the animals as well as their corresponding sounds they make.

Scene 3 Mr. Sam then closes the PowerPoint and starts a brainstorming activity about the animals they have seen and ask them to imitate the sound they make as shown through the projector and heard through the speakers.

Scene 4 Mr. Sam discovers that the children are led to confusion due to cognitive overload and unable to recall the animals name as well as their sounds corresponding to them.

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Scene 5Mr. Sam plans another way to better allow his students to recall the animals and their corresponding sounds individually without exerting too much cognitive effort.

Scene 6-1 Mr. Sam decides to adopt a strategy. So he introduces each animal first and ask students questions

Scene 6-2 The students don’t have any cognitive overload or confusion and able to recognise one animal at a time and associate to its sound also

This is a Dog

Scene 6-3 Mr. Sam clicks on the animal picture as an action button to allow it to make the corresponding animals sound and asks the students the following question:

What sound does it make?

Scene 7-1 The students don’t have any cognitive overload or confusion and able to recognise one animal at a time and associate to its sound also.

The dog does. – waow

wwaooh waoh waoow!

Scene 7-2 Mr. Sam clicks on the animal picture as an action button to allow it to make the corresponding animals sound and asks the students the following question:

Very good, the dog is barking

Scene 8 Mr. Sam continues with the exercise till all the animals have been tackled