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Step 3: Long Term Memory
Step 3: Long Term Memory
Consolidating Information
Consolidating Information
Long Term Memory is a process that involves storing and retrieving. Retrieval may be unprompted, need prompts, or may require some relearning as 80% of new information that is relearned is forgotten within one day. Continued practice is important to the maintenance and improvement of memory. (Lee & Juan, 2013).
The Ebbinghaus Forgetting Curve shows how recall diminishes and how memories can be retained through regular review.
Parts of the Brain
Parts of the Brain
Long-term Memory: memories are consolidated long term with the help of the hippocampus, and the temporal lobe. LTM involves deeper, more contextual learning and involves the prefrontal cortex also.
LTM Barriers
LTM Barriers
Barriers to LTM include habits that form an unhealthy lifestyle (drugs, diet, exercise, sleep, stress), lack of cognitive stimulation, aging, and disease such as dementia, stroke, etc. (Heerema, 2020).
Once the learning has occurred it becomes a matter of maintaining, reinforcing, and connecting the learning to prior learning AND making sure that the learning can be retrieved. Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning offers these 7 strategies based on cognitive science:
Retrieval: Bring it back from memory (involves practice testing)
Elaboration: Connect new ideas to what you already know. Explore learning using scenarios and through multiple methods.
Interleaving (and spacing): Vary the material - avoid drilling the same concepts in blocks. Review regularly and switch it up.
Generation: Answer before you have an answer.
Reflection: Evaluate what happened.
Mnemonics: Use hacks to recall.
Calibration: Know what you don't know.
Video: Make it stick: Science of successful learning I Summary & Illustrations (2:41)
Building, processing, and retrieving knowledge is a complex task and learners, topics, and contexts will vary so having a variety of e-tools and learning strategies to chose from is important. Here is a very valuable list of resources that you may want to bookmark - it's gold in my mind! https://jordancotten.com/resources/
There resource above includes concept mapping software for our next assignment and I will include this to consider also (I'm still exploring options for my Concept Mapping activity). Three Concept Map Tools: CmapTools, VUE, and Mindmeister
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