Active Learning Flashcards
(18 cards)
Students in “talk and chalk” classes were 1.5x as likely to fail a course compared to those who use active learning.
True
Active learning means getting physical with the material like making a Greek urn while studying Greece.
False. It refers to having students engage in the process and discussions rather than listening to a lecture.
Dragging wet gluey newspaper around a balloon has nothing to do with ancient cultures.. Projects often look creative and described as hands-on learning often do nothing to improve understanding of content.
True
Kagan learning is an example of active learning.
True.
Students often need essential, seemingly trivial information in long term memory including definitions and examples to serve as the foundation of conceptual understanding and a springboard for creative thinking.
True
What is it called when bits of trivial information… Enough facts in their heads from accumulated associations that will swim around to absorb, retain, and analyze new information?
A knowledge party
When kids mix up civil rights and civil war and think Abraham Lincoln and MLK were contemporaries, what probably went wrong?
No retrieval practice. Information wasn’t put into long term memory
Retrieval processes are involved in all situations where knowledge is expressed. Learners draw upon the past in the service of the present; thus, all situations involve retrieval.
True
What kind of memory involved facts and events that can be recalled?
Declarative memory
What kind of memory involves how to do something like typing, trying shoes, steps of a math problem?
Procedural memory
The declarative memory relates to working memory, the hippocampus, and the long term memory in the neocortex.
True
The procedural memory involves the basal ganglia and the neocortex.
True
What party of your brain is the thickness of a dinner napkin that covers the brain?
Neocortex
Where is long term memory stored?
Neocortex.
Which two brain structures learn from working memory?
Neocortex and hippocampus
Since the neocortex is so huge, the brain needs something that works like the index of a book that organized and quickly finds information you’re trying to retrieve. What party of the brain works like a book’6 index?
Hippocampus
What is the hippocampus’s role in the brain?
It acts like an index of a book to retrieve and organize information in the long term memory (neocortex)
The hippocampus does not die information in it. It just works like a hyperlink to the neocortex.
True
