EDF 6215 Learning Principles
Summer 1999
Module 6-- Information Processing
*Please note: Unlike previous modules, Module 6 will cover
2 chapters in your book. The homework for this module is one assignment
and should be posted as a unit. If it is beneficial in your own planning,
you may choose to identify which portion of the homework is associated
with chapter 7 and complete that separate and prior to completing chapter
8.
Learning Objectives
Chapter 7
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Students should be prepared to identify at least 2 assumptions
of information processing theories.
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Students should be prepared to identify 3 different models
of human memory, define them, and understand the differences.
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Students need to understand the essential components of learning
from a cognitive perspective, including perception, encoding, retrieval
and the learning framework.
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Students should recognize disadvantages to this theory as
outlined by Gredler.
Chapter 8
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Students should be able to identify some reasons children
may not implement metacognitive strategies following instruction.
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Students should be able to identify advantages and disadvantages
of having children construct their own problems to pursue.
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Students should understand differences between expert and
novice problem solvers.
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Students should be prepared to define keywords including
but not necessarily limited to metacognition, metacognitive knowledge,
comprehension monitoring, conditional knowledge, heuristics, problem recognition,
problem approach and self-monitoring skills.
Content Overview
Practice
1) Review Module 5 and develop a mnemonic
to remember Gagne's nine instructional events. Do you
believe that it would have been beneficial
to develop this mnemonic prior to reading the chapter? prior
to completing your homework?
Are you more likely to be able to recall the nine events in the future
since you have developed this mnemonic?
2) Consider a time in your life when
you retrieved a seemingly lost memory due to a sight, sound or
smell. How do you explain that
this memory appeared lost and then reappeared?
3) From the information processing
perspective, why is the following statement groundless? "I want
to teach my students cognitive learning
strategies, but, because of all the subject matter I must cover
during the year, I just don't have
the time."
4) What are the major differences between
the Gestalt view of problem solving and the information
processing perspective?
5) Why are the sentences in Set
A below easier to remember than the sentences in set B?
A: Benjamin
Franklin flew the kite. Gearoge Washington hid the ax. Santa
Claus walked on the
roof. Noah built the ark.
B: Jim
flew the kite. John hid the ax. Ted walked on the roof.
Malcolm built a boat.
Links to Resources
Below is the homework completed
by another group of students for this class. You don't need to do
it. I just left it here so you could see another approach to EDF
6215.
Read the following Gedanken. Once complete, I encourage
you to consider the variety of issues that are raised, as well as the possible
reasons that the assignment is written the way it is. Once you have
crafted your response, e-mail me your
response.
Gedanken
You are a reporter for the World Weekly Star Enquirer, which likes to inform
inquiring but generally untroubled minds. Your assignment this week
is to interview Dr. Turing J. Minsky, the first cognitive scientist specializing
in educational psychology to win the Nobel Prize. Dr. Minsky won
his prize for proving beyond a shadow of a doubt, one of the following
positions:
1) The human mind works just like a
computer, and all knowledge is additive or
2) The human mind works completely
unlike a computer, and all knowledge, once acquired,
completely
alters the nature of all previous knowledge.
Present the view of your choice in
clear, readable tabloid prose. You must be both accurate and clear.
Do a good job, and make Carl Sagan jealous of you.
Hint: Dr.
Minsky is a cognitive psychologist. Therefore, his position will
be based in a CIP perspective and conveyed in the appropriate technobabble
one would associate with this perspective.
Communication
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