week 6

1. Chapter 6 and 13 discuses several memory strategy and how people use their memory through out their life’s, from childhood until they become adult. Chapter 6 starts with explaining the mnemonics strategy by going deep into several methods such as keyword, loci method, chunking, Hierarchy and other methods. In second part the author discuses metacognation, in this part tip of the tongue phenomenon and metacomprehension are explained.
In chapter 13, the author explains the process of how a human is memorizing from the first month of birth till last days of life. In this chapter you will see much research that has been done to get knowledge of how human memorize things.

2. Those 2 chapters are discussing how we can improve our working and long term memory, which we discuss in previous chapter.

3. I am still not clear on method of loci, still don’t understand how it will help you memorize things better. By trying to relate the word with imagining an other object, I found it difficult as it takes more thinking in your brain.

4. I think if I want to teach student, I have to educate them, by giving them the right strategy I will be helping then to work efficient so they can learn things faster and better.

5. As I see many research has been done on those strategies, I think the information is accurate; however, every new research can give us more information of new proofs of how it actually is, so for now I think its valid information.

6. I think as a teacher you must know this information to be able to give your student efficient and accurate information, so they can build up knowledge and how to keep the knowledge.

7. I think you will need to use it in every class, however you could spend more on student that you think they need more help in order to learn it.

8. There are always better ways to accomplish things faster. It depend what kind of student you are dealing with. In general by doing more research and demonstration by your self will help you better to understand and to bring it over to your student.