USING
COGNITIVE THEORY AND CONCEPT LEARNING
1. Identify the defining features or main ideas of the concept or content to be learned.
2. Sensory Memory: Present the information in a way to impact the senses or use more than one sense.
3. Attention: Present the content in a way to draw the learner's attention to the key features.
4. Perception: Relate the new information to prior knowledge to help with recognition.
5. Short term memory: Keep the amount of information limited or organize it through chunking.
6. Encoding: Manipulate the display of the material to help the learner encode it. (Use organization, elaboration, imagery)
Concept learning: Use the strategies of concept learning at this point. (Give a definition; use lots of positive and negative instances; provide opportunities for comparison; have the learner generate examples; use concept mapping.)
7. Long term memory: Use what the learner already knows to help organize new information.
8. Retrieval: Give the learner practice opportunities and feedback.
9. Metacognition: Help the learner monitor his understanding
and make appropriate adjustments in learning.