Learning Log Ch.6

What?
This week I learned about learning and memory. That in order for learning to happen there has to be a new experience and that meaning is constructed by the learner, rather than directly from the environment. Our certain beliefs and values are what play the role in making things meaningful to the learner. Memory in our brain literally forms pathways and the younger they're defined the longer you'll remember those memories. All of our memories don't go to one certain place they go to a few. First you need to be paying attention for it to get stored into working memory and then to long term. Once its here it needs to be applied to something else or it will be lost. Make the fact meaningful,connect it with a picture and organize it with other concepts. The model of memory is what taught me the correct process of information into two different categories. The brain has a lot of steps that have to work for things to be remembered. Using almost every part of it mostly the hippocampus ans amygdala are used to store memory ans retrieve it.
So What?
This weeks topic is important for a future teacher.say me, to know for a number of reasons. If I understand how learning and memory come and the strategies that help them move from short term to long term memory students will improve. Students will know some of these strategies and start to apply them on their own. By showing students a wide variety of helpful techniques they can use the one that works best with their learning style. Help them feel more confident with tests and with anything that required memorization. This is included in the syllabus so that we can see how we can understand learning and memory to help our students. This topic will help me be a great teacher by helping me see what level the students memory process works and incorporate them into class. Teach them different ways to organize information and how to retrieve long term memories while interacting with other students doing think-pair-shares.
Now What?
The information that I've learned about chapter six will be important in my future. It will help me know how to help my students retain their knowledge the best they can. By knowing each students learning style and what they enjoy this will help get their attention, which moves information into short-term memory. I need to learn how to respond to children beliefs that are incorrect and how to turn them in the right direction. I want to learn about ways to make lessons meaningful, all concepts organized, and emphasized. I think a lot of this learning will come from practice teaching, but also from reading. This will help me to get my students stretching to their full potentials.