Brain And The Process Of Learning

Teaching is all about facilitating a learning experience for students so that the stated outcomes of a given course are learned by them. In order to apply differentiated instructions, today teachers are required to have a solid understanding of cognitive components linked with the process of learning. It is essential to understand how our brain processes information and how we encode, retain and retrieve information, to offer and use better techniques that facilitate learning in students as a whole.

In an attempt to know better about the learning process of students and after analyzing quite a few of the related resources available online, I found this one resource that caught my attention. Basically this resource offers insight on the information processing theory and the different school of thoughts that have over time developed the basis of this theory.

This article by Stacey, T. Lutz and William, G. Huitt “Information Processing And Memory: Theory and Applications “Information Processing And Memory: Theory and Applications” discusses how a person learns, acquires information and recall prior retained information. The article basically offers information on how considering the psychological area of cognition as a whole, studies the mind broadly and defines how people encode information, structure and store it, and retrieve and use it.

The article discusses the primary area of memory in cognition, along with discussing the various theories presented by different scholars and how the theories differed or complemented each other. Further light is shed on the stage model where the three stages of memory, the sensory, short term and long term memory are defined in detail. The article also discusses other theories of information processing before shedding light on how memory and information processing can be developed.  

All in all, the article offers great insight on information processing and how permanent storing of information can be facilitated.

Another web article that I am reviewing in this blog is the “Brain Based Learning” article that discusses in general what brain based learning is and how it is aiding the learning process today. The article briefly discusses how and what affects the brain and how that conditions affects upon the learning process. What is worth mentioning in this article is that along with mentioning the importance of brain based learning today, it also discusses how far the findings go in term of implying it in real life situations.

Hopefully you will have a great time reviewing these two articles, along with attaining better understanding of the two concepts, the articles shed light on.