Chapter Review 7/8/09

We have a bunch of different pieces of information
then they must be connected to mean anyting
we ahve a bunch of language packets, and by using them, we build upon them and they become rea.
we have to retrieve it in different ways

Students must encode the memory
a cognitive
emotional
and physical
component

head, heart, and hands

when we're teaching people, the mroe their brians are cognitively engaged, they're emotional about something,a dn their bodies are engaged, the more they're going ot learn. Also, that combinations of factors encourages the spirit to work.

The third piece is information storage. As the brian encodes memories, it stores stuff in different areas depending on which senses you'reusing. The more senses I'm suing (signt touch movement) the more places it gets stored on the brain.

Neurons that fire together wire together.

electrical, chemiccal (neurotransmitters) and structural (calcium) reactions in the brain.

We're trying to create connections and networks in the brain. The more you learn, the easire it is to learn because the brain can connect things which it atttaches to. As we learn all that it changes the way we see things. We see through our perspectives.

The things that we do in class are the things that will endure for us.

Students take so much more from the experience than the do from the plain lecture.

Students must interact with the material.

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The brain stores by similarity and retrieves by differences.

Personalizacion, sentido, interaccion, patron, comparaciones

*We need to think about what things students are likely to be confused with and give them patterns or mnemonic devices.

ej. siete y seis son stored in the same group "Numbers" but the brain gets confused.


Modelo de como procesa el cerebro la informacion
Perceptual register (anything that has strong emotional signification, threatens my physical sense, and/or makes a huge cognitave impact (it's interesting) will get throught these "blinds" and go into the brain fro further processing.
ej. perfume - when it's first sprayed, you hear it. But after a while the brain is habituated to it.

Short Term Membory - for adults, people can only store it for about 20 seconds or 7 chunks

Based on that processing we have real work. Assuming that this information ahs sense or meaning or some degree of interest, then the brain goes and diggs into the long term memory. It pull severything out that it knows and finds quickly that information and dumps it into the working memory.

Give kids experiences that force them to make connections from what they're learning and what they know. Good teachers activate prior knowledge first.


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Los Estados Unidos

Perspectivas: ¿Por qué?

Prácticas: ¿Cómo? Productos: ¿Qué?

Culture is comprised of products perspectives and practicas.

Most of what is taught is products. Not anything else. It's the lines, not the dots that we should focus on.

Pyramid:
COmmunication
Cultures
COnnections
Comparisons
COmmunities

We focus mainly on communication,a nd ignore the base. Communication is related to the communities.