Thursday, October 24, 2013

Week 12_Group D_How the Brain Processes Information

Hi. Hannah and Lena.
I hope you have a great day! :)

- Comprehension Checks

1. Can you describe the procedure of the Information Processing Model?

2. Do you think that an enthusiastic elementary teacher might have a difficult time to let students remember eight rules in one lesson plan?
Please explain it considering the concept of 'working memory'.

3. Why is it necessary for teachers to contain students' past experience in a curriculum, not in teacher's?


- Discussion Question

As a teacher, how do you encourage students to keep a positive self-concept in a class while accepting new learning?

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  2. 1. When you get the information from senses pass through the sensory register to immediate memory and then on to working memory for conscious processing. If learners attache sense and meaning to the learning, it is likely to be stored as a long term memory. The self- concept determines how much attention the learner will give to new information.

    2. Teacher should consider student’s working memory before they made rules. Most of research evidence to working memory has a functional limit, the number seven continues to be accepted as a workable guideline for adolescents and adults. If the number of items in lesson objective be within the appropriate capacity limit, students will remember more of what they learned.

    3. Because past experience always influence new learning, Helping students to make connections between subject areas by integrating the curriculum increases meaning and retention.

    DQ)
    Hardly achieved experience raised self-concept whereas failing experience in the past lowered self-concept. These experiences produced strong emotional reactions in different learning situation. So teacher encourages students to positive reinforcement, and makes them overcome their negative experience.


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    When we get the information from senses pass through the sensory register to immediate memory and then on to working memory for conscious processing. If learners attache sense and meaning to the learning, it is likely to be stored as a long term memory. Working memory has a limit and appropriate capacity especially by age. When giving information to students less is more and shorter time is better. At this process, we are strongly influenced by many things such as past experience and self-concept. Therefore teacher should consider these things when making a lesson plan, teaching and reflecting student’s learning.

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  3. 1. The information processing model represents a simplified explanation of how the brain deals with information from the environment. The self- concept determines how much attention the learner will give to new information.

    2. Yes. Teachers have to consider student’s working memory before they made lesson plan. Most of research evidence to working memory has a functional limit, the number seven continues to be accepted as a workable guideline for adolescents and adults. Keep the number of items in a lesson objective within the capacity limits of students and they are likely to remember more of what they learned.

    3. Because past experience always influence new learning.

    DQ) As a teacher, keep encouraging students positively and help them control their negative experience.

    AP) The information of processing model helps an English teacher how the brain deal with information, memories, and the impact of the self-concept on learning. Teacher use these information by encouraging students to positive reinforcement, and makes them overcome their negative experience.

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