We are taught in a wrong way since we were in a primary school. In the 1980’s John Sweller, from the school of education and the founding father of Cognitive Load Theory, said that we are not taught in the way how we think and learn which causes into a bad teaching method. This theory connects to working memory, which is a part of our brain that stores all the necessary things and also creates information for some tasks such as languages, learning, etc. Solving a problem takes a huge place of working memory. It is hard to keep all the information that you learned today because the working memory has a limited place of three or four items of information which are stored only just for three to four seconds without reading them through again. Professor Sweller says that a lot of teacher gives wrong information to the students. He declared that the information can be reorganized to make it easier. Sometimes the students do not know the information on the slides and they just copy it which does not help for studying. He said that it is easier to memorize if the information is said more than one time because our brain does not work if something is said just for few times.
Key points about Cognitive Load Theory:
1) Working memory is limited if you learn a new information. If the information is memorized for a long time, it can be brought back to working memory which takes a big place of working memory.
2) In classroom situation, not every information is stored in your brain unless you take notes.
3) Power Point presentation can be not good if the screen has the same information as the information you talk.
댓글 없음:
댓글 쓰기