Research Bloom’s Taxonomy of Educational Objectives and Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences. How do they tie into what you learned about human memory and also, how can they help you create an effective learning strategy? Provide 3 pieces of factual support for your reasoning.

Multiple Intelligences shows that everyone has some sort of intelligence, but maybe in not one way as another. Examples of this would be how some people are kinetically enhanced learners while others learn from memorization. With this, we can find that people need to learn in different ways because they are better at one way than another. We will take this into consideration and use many different learning strategies. Higher level learning is an objective of teachers in the research done by Bloom. There are standards that teachers set for students and the ultimate standard is when students can learn to analyze and interpret things they learn in school into everyday situations and larger global perspectives. In his debate he says that remembering, understanding, applying, analyzing,evaluating, and creating are the main points to learning with the latter being the most important. With this knowledge, our group will try to hold discussions on and have students speak about the learning so that they can create a wider view for themselves and for their classmates. It is then important that we have the students create something good out of the learning. So a project is a good idea for learning.

How can you use your knowledge of language acquisition, and the way that we read, speak and think to help create your learning strategy?

Knowing that humans think the way we do, and learn the way we do, this knowledge can be used to make our learning strategy because we know that students learn through repetition and example. Our survey showed this as well. We will create our learning strategy around these principles. We know how the brain functions and we take this into consideration with what our learning strategy will be. Knowing that people process language the way we do, we will use language acquisition. We have to know where everyone is coming from with their vocab. We have to use language that everyone understands and processes the same way. Everything like this is important in obtaining our learning strategy.

Summarize how you will use thinking and language in your learning strategy below. Make sure to include at least 6 different ways you are going to utilize this knowledge.

1. Questions and hypothesis - Asking questions and developing the way we understand something will help. With the formation of language, gradual changes will come in network connections in the brain.
2. Watch Movie – By watching a movie the eyes help interpret information
3.Take Notes on Movie and create your own questions – With repetition, mental rehearsal can help you achieve an academic goal.
4. Class Discussion based off of questions – This is another way that with the formation of language, gradual changes will come with brain connections.
5. Hands on Experiment- get in a group and create a short skit of your view of how neuroscience affects psychology in your lives. This will help because the more we act out information, the more we remember it.  6. Come up with algorithms – With algorithms, algorithms will help up know that there will always be a solution and it will help up remember to always search for the truth.

Any of these learning strategies will help students remember information and retain it. Some of these ways are new and should be used because they are different.

Megan Johnson, Pd. 7