EDU 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Metacognition, Mitosis, Chromosome
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Today will discuss the issue of making retrieval from memory easy, fast, and accurate. We don"t encode what we don"t attend to. More than just appearing attentive, involves directing the mind toward learning. One can attend to 2-3 well-learned tasks at once (chewing gum and walking). But, for new or complex info/situations we can only really attend to one thing at a time. Caution against superficial engagement and real intellectual engagement. Boring --> unengaged --> inattentive interest; variety; enthusiasm; capitalizing on innate desire to make sense of the world. We have limited space in our working memories. When too much stuff to juggle we may "shut down" or become inattentive. Novices have trouble deciding what is relevant and what can be ignored. Requires students to attend to several processes at once (chromosome duplication; chromosome arrangement; cell division).
