Memory

Our (most people brain) brain is amazing yet it has limitation.

I read in Encarta 2006, about memory and I found this:

"Memory and learning are closely related, and the terms often describe roughly the same processes. The term learning is often used to refer to processes involved in the initial acquisition or encoding of information, whereas the term memory more often refers to later storage and retrieval of information. However, this distinction is not hard and fast. After all, information is learned only when it can be retrieved later, and retrieval cannot occur unless information was learned. Thus, psychologists often refer to the learning/memory process as a means of incorporating all facets of encoding, storage, and retrieval."

Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2006. © 1993-2005 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

And in my another article that I take from http://www.comp.glam.ac.uk/pages/staff/efurse/learning-and-memory/Full-text.html

I found:

The problem with human learning, is that so much that we learn is in terms of what we already know. This makes obvious sense. For example, we learn that Paris is the capital of France, but could not really learn this if we did not have some previous idea of what a capital city was, or a country. This, so called learning of facts, is known by psychologists as "declarative learning" to distinguish it from "procedural learning", a distinction made by amongst others the American Cognitive Psychologist, John Anderson.

I have seen that Mr. Steve have given to us “Educational Resource Center Workshop  Memory and Learning Study Smarter, Not Harder” but I’m sorry I don’t know the address

I found some interesting things:

Learning is Durable change in knowledge that is due to experience. Need time.

Attention is needed. Focus

Motivation is also needed

• Intrinsic
• Extrinsic

What is memory? Record store and retrieve

3 stages:

Sensory input à sensory memory à encoding and attention à working short term memory àencoding and retrieval à long term memory

Short term memory it can be using chunking

Most human only can remember first series and the last series.

Most people can remember 7 minus or plus 2 serial word/ letter/ number

Level of processing

Structural à physical structure of stimulus

Phonemic à sound of word

Semantic  à meaning

Maintenance rehearsal

• Rote repetition of information
• Not an optimal method for transfer into long term memory.

Elaborative rehearsal

• Visual imagery
• Enriches memory because it provides a second kind of memory code
• Concept maps.

Active reading

• Imagine
• Summarize
• Question your level
• Question your teacher might ask

 Remembering

• Think about what are you trying to learn
• Find an interesting material
• Put the material into your word
• Repeat the ideas
• Over learn to make certain

I also have listened to the record “CBC radio: rewind, edDebate1” I also don’t know the address

That record told some experts view about school nowadays.

I got:

Don’t be dominated let student free to study.

Motivate them by freedom of choice (choice about what student likes to learn).

No relation between college achievement and life (especially in practicing their job), But we can’t eliminate school because what will teenager do if there is no school

Library has wider knowledge than school.

Schooling is a ritual and compulsory thing. Yet why there is a compulsory lesson that not important to student future life?