Alice’s Analysis of Ch10-Repetition and Elaboration by Alice Zhiqiong Ai https://padlet.com/aai/RepetionandElaboration "We need to help our students to begin learning in harmony with their brains" (p.149).​ en-us 2019-03-12 21:50:43 UTC 2025-04-23 18:23:41 UTC hello@padlet.com Learn in harmony with their brains aai https://padlet.com/aai/RepetionandElaboration/wish/340650831
  • Get enough sleep
  • Take naps
  • Allow some time between assigned classes
  • Use all of their senses to study
    • ]]>     2019-03-12 22:23:47 UTC https://padlet.com/aai/RepetionandElaboration/wish/340650831     Not enough sleep aai https://padlet.com/aai/RepetionandElaboration/wish/340651554
  • Sleep has been identified as a state that optimizes the consolidation of newly acquired information in memory, depending not the specific conditions of learning and the timing of sleep (p.139).
  • Our students cannot optimize their learning without getting enough sleep (p.139).
    • ]]>     2019-03-12 22:27:48 UTC https://padlet.com/aai/RepetionandElaboration/wish/340651554     Students would forget information because of 4 major reasons (pp.140-141): aai https://padlet.com/aai/RepetionandElaboration/wish/340651589
  • Retrieval failure: If information is not retrieved and rehearsed, it will eventually be lost.
  • Interference: Some memories compete and interfere with other memories, especially when information is very similar to other information that was previously stored in memory. This means that students’ prior knowledge and experience will be likely to interfere with what is learned recently.
  • Failure to store: Information that is never stored in the long-term memory is easy to be forgotten. 
  • Motivated forgetting: Some information could be actively forgotten by students because of suppression or repression. 

    • ]]>     2019-03-12 22:27:59 UTC https://padlet.com/aai/RepetionandElaboration/wish/340651589     Stress (p.142) aai https://padlet.com/aai/RepetionandElaboration/wish/340651634
  • Both long-term and short-term stress can impair cell communication in the brain's learning and memory region.
  • It is unlikely we will ever teach students who are totally free of stress. But we can work toward providing learning environments that reduce their stress and engage them so they will focus on the learning and forget the stress.
    • ]]>     2019-03-12 22:28:12 UTC https://padlet.com/aai/RepetionandElaboration/wish/340651634     Creating a memory in the brain aai https://padlet.com/aai/RepetionandElaboration/wish/340652531
  • To encode a memory, people must first be paying attention (p.138).
  • New neuron connections are made and change all the time.
  • The more signals sent between brain cells, the stronger the connection  grows (p.138). 
  • Understand the flexibility of brain plasticity: how you use your brain helps determine how your brain is organized (p.138). 
  • Students' brains organize and reorganize in response to their learning experience, forming memories triggered by their experiences, education, and/or training (pp.138-139)

    • ]]>     2019-03-12 22:33:04 UTC https://padlet.com/aai/RepetionandElaboration/wish/340652531     Getting enough sleep (p.139) aai https://padlet.com/aai/RepetionandElaboration/wish/340652574
  •  Sleep plays a powerful role in the consolidation of long-term memories. 
  • Periods of slow-wave sleep produce a recall, and probably amplification.
  • Students need at least a reasonable amount of sleep (7-8 hours) , which enables their brains enough time to take the day's new information, consolidate it, and start the process of making it a more permanent memory.
  • Students can not optimize their learning without getting enough sleep.
  • People who take a nap after learning a new task remember it better than those who don't.

  • Video:  Sleep to Remember (05:44)

    • ]]>     2019-03-12 22:33:17 UTC https://padlet.com/aai/RepetionandElaboration/wish/340652574     Teaching for long-term recall aai https://padlet.com/aai/RepetionandElaboration/wish/340652601
  • Teaching for long-term recall: Teaching in ways that promote our students knowing the skills and information we want them to know a year or more after the course has ended (p.144).
  • The key elements in developing long-term memories are the repetition and elaboration of the information and skills being taught (p.144).
  • Suggestions about how to teach for long-term recall (pp.145-146): 1) teach students to space their practice; 2) cumulative tests or exams; 3) have students spend time in reflection; 4) ask students explain what they have learned in their own words; 5)use much visual information as possible. 
    • ]]>     2019-03-12 22:33:27 UTC https://padlet.com/aai/RepetionandElaboration/wish/340652601     Making the learning personal and emotional to improve recall(pp.146-147) aai https://padlet.com/aai/RepetionandElaboration/wish/340652634
  • Important tools in the information of memory: attention and emotion.
  • Personal factors can influence attention, such as distinctiveness, affective valence, prevalence, complexity, and functional value.
  • Individual characteristics can influence attention, such as sensory capacities, arousal level, perceptual set, past reinforcement.
  • Emotional arousal appears to increase the likelihood of memory consolidation during the retention stage of memory.
  • Memory enhancements for emotional information tend to be greater after longer delays than after relatively short ones.
  • Emotional valence alone can enhance memory.
    • ]]>     2019-03-12 22:33:40 UTC https://padlet.com/aai/RepetionandElaboration/wish/340652634     1. Build learning environments to boost brain development aai https://padlet.com/aai/RepetionandElaboration/wish/340718875
  • Brain plasticity: The brain is wired to learn (Doyle, 2011, p.146)
  • Brian-friendly learning: Teaching to support the way the human brain works (Pacansky-Brock, 2017, p.11)
    • ]]>     2019-03-13 05:30:00 UTC https://padlet.com/aai/RepetionandElaboration/wish/340718875     2. Build safe learning environments aai https://padlet.com/aai/RepetionandElaboration/wish/340718915
  • Creating a safe learning environment that is engaging, interesting, and challenging is important (Doyle, 2011, p.141)
  • Students need to feel safe and perceive their learning environment as a trusted space to share and collaborate with their peers(Pacansky-Brock, 2017, p.33)
    • ]]>     2019-03-13 05:30:23 UTC https://padlet.com/aai/RepetionandElaboration/wish/340718915     We need to help our students to begin learning in harmony with their brains. aai https://padlet.com/aai/RepetionandElaboration/wish/340719108
  •  This requires that teachers need to build a learning environment that boosts students’ brain development, that is, to build brain-friendly learning environment.
  • To build brain-friendly learning environment, we need to understand what helps and hinders in information processing in students’ brain.
  • To build brain-friendly learning environment, we need to make students understand the importance of sleep.
  • To build brain-friendly learning environment, we need to create a safe learning environment that is engaging, interesting and challenging to reduce students’ stress.
  • To build brain-friendly learning environment, we need to teach for long-term recall.
  • To build brain-friendly learning environment, we need to make the learning personal and emotional to improve recall of information.
  • To build brain-friendly learning environment, we need to help students improve their memories.
    • ]]>     2019-03-13 05:32:34 UTC https://padlet.com/aai/RepetionandElaboration/wish/340719108     1.Based on the flexibility of brain plasticity “how you use your brain helps determine how your brain is organized”(p.138), how and what can we do to help students create connections between new knowledge and their experience to build intricate circuits of knowledge in their brain? aai https://padlet.com/aai/RepetionandElaboration/wish/340719547 2019-03-13 05:37:32 UTC https://padlet.com/aai/RepetionandElaboration/wish/340719547 Instructions tools we can use to help our students retain information in long-term memory: aai https://padlet.com/aai/RepetionandElaboration/wish/340720061
  • Focus your attention on the materials you are studying.
  • Don’t cram for exams.
  • Structure and organize the information.
  • Mnemonic devices (HOMES, EGBDF)
  • Elaborate and rehearse information
  • Relate new information to prior knowledge
  • Visualize concepts
  • Teach new concepts to another person
  • Pay extra attention to information in the middle of class
  • Vary your study routine.

    • ]]>     2019-03-13 05:42:36 UTC https://padlet.com/aai/RepetionandElaboration/wish/340720061     3. A book: Brain Friendly Teaching(07:28) aai https://padlet.com/aai/RepetionandElaboration/wish/340725292 2019-03-13 06:30:24 UTC https://padlet.com/aai/RepetionandElaboration/wish/340725292 Participatory Learning in a community-based learning environment aai https://padlet.com/aai/RepetionandElaboration/wish/340965007
  • Definition: Participatory learning situates individual within a fluid community in which members make contributions by sharing ideas of their own and responses to the contribution made by other members (Pacansky-Brock, 2017, p.30)
  • Question 1: How could we ensure students' active participation and the participation validity in online community learning environment?
  • Question 2: When teaching online, how should the teacher do to keep a balance between participation level and regular contact with students?
  • Question 3: What could the teacher do to assess the students-generated work when teaching a large class online?
    • ]]>     2019-03-13 16:30:47 UTC https://padlet.com/aai/RepetionandElaboration/wish/340965007     2. If students have varied ways to organize information in the brain, what strategies could be resorted to for a teacher to improve students' learning? aai https://padlet.com/aai/RepetionandElaboration/wish/340965538 2019-03-13 16:31:55 UTC https://padlet.com/aai/RepetionandElaboration/wish/340965538 3. How could the teacher build a brain-friendly blended or online learning environment? aai https://padlet.com/aai/RepetionandElaboration/wish/340965663 2019-03-13 16:32:09 UTC https://padlet.com/aai/RepetionandElaboration/wish/340965663