(I’m republishing my best posts from the first half of the year. You can see the entire list of them here)
How the brain chooses which memories are important enough to save and which to let fade away is an NBC News story from today highlighting new research about how knowledge gets moved into our long term memories.
Basically, it says that if we pause for a moment after learning something, it will increase the odds of it it getting cemented into long-term memory during sleep.
It seems to me this finding reemphasizes the importance of reflection in learning, whether it’s, like I often do after students do presentations in small groups, asking them to write down either one thing they know after the presentation that they didn’t know before or asking them to write down the most interesting or most important thing they learned; carefully constructed “exit tickets”; asking students to write about how they can use what they learned outside of school, or other thoughtful questions (see The Best Questions To Use For Class Closing Activities — What Are Yours?).
I’m adding this info to The Best Resources On Student & Teacher Reflection.
(I’m republishing my best posts from the first half of the year. You can see the entire list of them here) How the brain chooses which memories are important enough to save and which to let fade away is an NBC News story from today highlighting new research about how knowledge gets moved a look back Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…
