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===== Working memory and cognitive architecture ===== | ===== Working memory and cognitive architecture ===== | ||
- | - Human working memory has a limited capacity of 7±2 or 4±1 chunks of information. [[memory_models:Human Working Memory]] | + | - Human working memory has a limited capacity of 7±2 or 4±1 chunks of information. A chunk is an unit operated as a whole and it has a different meaning for an expert and for a novice. [[memory_models:Human Working Memory]] |
- | - Human working memory has four components: phonological loop, visuospatial sketchpad, episodic buffer and central executive. Visuospatial sketchpad and phonological loop allow paralel processing of visual and auditive information. [[memory_models:Human Working Memory]], [[learning_theories:Cognitive load theory]] | + | - Human working memory has four components: phonological loop, visuospatial sketchpad, episodic buffer and central executive. Visuospatial sketchpad and phonological loop allow parallel processing of visual and auditive information. [[memory_models:Human Working Memory]], [[learning_theories:Cognitive load theory]] |
+ | - Since working memory has a limited capacity learning won't occur if that capacity is exceeded. [[learning_theories:Cognitive load theory]] | ||
===== Prior knowledge ===== | ===== Prior knowledge ===== | ||
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===== Meaningful learning ===== | ===== Meaningful learning ===== | ||
+ | - Learning is not a passive, but an active, socially enhanced process of knowledge construction. [[learning_paradigms:Constructivism]] | ||
+ | - Learning occurs through interaction of learner's prior knowledge (knowledge schemes), ideas and experience. [[learning_paradigms:Constructivism]] | ||
- Meaningful learning won't occur unless the new ideas are presented in a clear way that enables their relating with other ideas. [[learning_theories:Assimilation theory]] | - Meaningful learning won't occur unless the new ideas are presented in a clear way that enables their relating with other ideas. [[learning_theories:Assimilation theory]] | ||
- Meaningful learning won't occur unless the learner actually makes an conscious attempt to relate new ideas to his prior knowledge. [[learning_theories:Assimilation theory]] | - Meaningful learning won't occur unless the learner actually makes an conscious attempt to relate new ideas to his prior knowledge. [[learning_theories:Assimilation theory]] | ||
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- The teacher should advise students how and in which context to apply and transfer the just gained knowledge in the world outside the classroom. [[learning_theories:Conditions of learning]] | - The teacher should advise students how and in which context to apply and transfer the just gained knowledge in the world outside the classroom. [[learning_theories:Conditions of learning]] | ||
- The teacher should provide guidance to students in discussion, answer their questions and offer them additional materials on topic.[[learning_theories:Conditions of learning]] | - The teacher should provide guidance to students in discussion, answer their questions and offer them additional materials on topic.[[learning_theories:Conditions of learning]] | ||
+ | - Different people learn better using different learning styles. One of the classification of these styles is to abstract or concrete experience or conceptualization. [[learning_theories:Experiential learning]] | ||
+ | ===== Humanist dimension of learning ===== | ||
+ | - Learning is a natural desire, a mean of self-actualization and development of personal potentials. The importance of learning lies in the process, not outcome. [[learning_paradigms:Humanism]] | ||
+ | - We cannot teach another person directly; we can only facilitate his learning. This should be the goal of the educational process and teachers through realness, prizing and empathy. [[instructional_design:Facilitation theory]] | ||
+ | - Students should be invited by their teachers teacher to develop their potentials. People, places, policies, programs and processes related to the educational process should be maximally inviting. [[instructional_design:Invitational learning]] |