Dr. Orey in "Cognitive Learning Theories" explains how the brain connects to previous taught information, and the power of using multiple sensory components when teaching. Students learn best when they can see, smell, taste, hear, and touch what it is they are trying to learn. When those senses are used in learning, it helps the students store the information into a memory that has many different paths to get the students back to that memory when they need to recall that information. In our book, Using Technology with Classroom Instruction that Works, there are many different instructional strategies that correlate with the information from Dr. Orey's speech, such as, word processing programs as a table-making chart. Students can fill in the table with pictures, key words, and web resources to help them remember the information in multiple ways. This strategy can also be used when taking notes. For example, a student could draw a picture, and then connect key words that link the two pieces of information together.
Overall, I feel our book correlated with our DVD well, and offered great ideas to help the students remember the content in many different ways. I enjoyed reading about all of the different examples that implement the use of technology with learning and remembering information.
Moodle
14 years ago
I think that students of the younger age are able to learn better when they can "see, smell, taste, hear, and touch." Many students of the younger ages tend to be tactile learners. As students become older I think they find their own ways of understanding and remembering concepts. Yes it is always nice to have a visual with text, but older students may not always need those tactile and visual resources. The older students may benefit more from the resources such as the Auto Summarizing in Word while the younger students may benefit more from the table making with pictures.
ReplyDeleteI too agree with the ideas offered in the book. I think there are many great ways to teach students in a way so they can link it to prior knowledge. How would you use these strategies teaching P.E.?
ReplyDeleteAccording to Dr. Orey, sensory input goes to short term memory and then can be moved to long term or episodic memory when taken further. In making my concept map, I incorporated primary colors for visual learners and all of the arrows are great for keeping information organized as it is brought into the brain as our text talks about this week.
ReplyDeleteJennifer,
ReplyDeleteI am fortunate to teach in an activity filled environment. During each lesson, the students can smell the equipment, see what is occurring, feel the equipment, and hear the noise from each other (when they taste the equipment, they get in trouble). I love that the students can relate most games we play with sports or activities they see at home, on TV, or participate in regularly. . I build my lessons from previous lessons to help them connect their learning. In addition, I show them how sports overlap certain tactics in gameplay. For example, when attacking a goal it is good to have a target player. Once a student has been introduced to what a target player is, then the next sport I teach that uses this tactic I try to demonstrate the similarities so that the student makes the connection.