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How We Learn

By: Vickie Hall

WE REMEMBER:

10 % of what we read.

20%

Of what we Hear

30% Of what we see

50%Of what we see and hear

70%

Of what is

with others

discussed

80%

Of what we experience

95%

Of what we teach others -William Glasser

In order to remember something….

…You have had to learn

something!

Now, how do you do that?

Every memory had to be made from something important.

The smell of a

flower

The fresh smell of a cupcake

The pain of a headache

All of these things are caused by tissue in our heads

Three Pounds-.

The Brain

You were born with 100 billion neurons.

Neuron: the basic unit of nervous tissue

synapse

Information from one neuron flows to another

neuron

Through these synapsis and neurons all information is stored in the brain.

New Pathways are formedas new information is learned

So, How can we use this information

to our benefit when we want to

learn new information?

Humans have three stages in remembering:

1.Sensory stage2.Short-term

memory3.Long-term

memory

Sensory Stage:

The flicker of something happening

After the memory begins as perception:

It is encoded and stored using thelanguage of electricity and chemicals.

Short-Term Memory

Is used to store memories

Even for a short tim

e

Short term memory is also called:

The working memory

That is because the STM can only hold 7 pieces of information at a time.

For only

20-30 seconds

The information that you want

to rememberhas to

make sense.

Information should be in a language you speak!

And not in Greek!

The order of information should make sense!

The order of information should make sense!

By repeating information over and over and over

and over again…

Information can get into the Long-term memory

That is where information is stored where we will be able to recall it later.

Retrieving a memory1. You must pay attention to form the memory..

Retrieving a memory

You must have a solid

pathway to the memory.

Retrieving a memory

You have to practice retrieving the memory!

Retrieving a memory

You will bring the memory into your working memory or consciousness.

What happens if you forget?

Then the pathTo your memoryHas been lost.

This makes you feel old!

If the memory did get into your long-term memory, then you will be able to recall (find) it.

How memory works:

There are tricks to help you remember:

1.Acronyms2.Poems, Rhymes, and Rhythms3.Chunking groups of info.4.Sentences5.Method of Loci6.Practice!

Acronym

The first letter from a group of words to form a new word

NBA

National Basketball Association

Scuba

Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus

Rhymes and Songs

Alphabet

ABC-DEFG-HIJKLMNOP-QRS

TUV- W-X-Y-and Z!

Chunking Information

Tearing it up into little bits

Phone Numbers

Social Security Numbers

Dates

Sentences

Like acronyms, but you use the first letter of each word to make a sentence

Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally

Parenthesizes, exponents, multiplication,Division, addition, subtraction

MathematicalOrder of Operations

Method of LociUse of a path that you walk to remember the objects along it to remind you of a speech

Practice

Like anything else…

You have to practiceretrieving the memory to become good at it!

These are just a few tricks!

To help you remember!

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