Sunday, September 15, 2013

Research on the brain and information processing

This week I will be reviewing 2 articles regarding the brain and learning, and on information processing that occurs during the learning process.

http://pequotlakes.k12.mn.us/userfiles/file/aep04_2_6-1.pdf

This article is entitled Brain Based Learning - The wave of the Brain written by Ruth Palomba Weiss in 2000.  She talks about how the 3 pound brain has over 100 billion neurons and each one has 10,000 synaptic connections to the other neurons.  She goes on to talk about how the brain works and its different parts.  She pays special attention to the thalamus and states how it is responsible for attention.  She also talks about memory, recall and information.  Overall, the article was very well written and had some analogies that helped understand.

http://www.utpjournals.com/jvme/tocs/303/226.pdf

This is an article titled Problem Solving Techniques and Theories written by Laura E. Hardin in 2002.  She talks about problem solving components and knowledge that students must have to complete problem solving.  She also outlines the historical progression of problem solving theories (behaviorism, cognitivism) and expert-novice problem solving theories (chunking, schema, metacognition).  I found this article to be very informative regarding the techniques and theories.

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