Status Updates From Uncommon Sense Teaching Pra...

Ways of remembering:
1. Declarative memory: involving facts/events consciously recalled; in working memory, hippocampus, LTM in neocortex
2. Procedural memory: how to do something; in basal ganglia & neocortex
- p. 43

Retrieval processes are involved in expressions of knowledge (e.g. answering factual questions, explaining concepts, inferring, applying knowledge to a new problem, creativity & innovation), drawing upon the past in the service of the present. - p. 43

Active learning:
• uses activities and/or discussions e.g. group work
• higher-order thinking
• creating, consolidating, reinforcing, extending neural links in LTM
• information in LTM (e.g. definitions, examples, accumulated associations) are foundation for conceptual understanding (absorbing, retaining, analysing new information) & springboard for creativity
- p. 40-41

Active learning makes students 33% less likely to fail compared to talk&chalk; grades improved by 6%. - p. 39