Peter Doolittle: How your "working memory" makes sense of the world
Peter Doolittle: Comment la « mémoire de travail » donne sens au monde
Peter Doolittle is striving to understand the processes of human learning. Full bio
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et marcher en même temps.
de mémoire de travail
qui nous rend
on appelle ça un coma, ok ?
into our long-term memory
quel qu'il soit.
ce que nous savons
de manière à satisfaire
à un grand nombre d'effets positifs.
on standardized tests,
is play a little bit with some of that.
d'effectuer quelques tâches,
working memory out for a ride.
votre mémoire de travail.
vous vous en imprégniez.
I'm going to ask you to answer three questions.
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exactement ça. (Rires)
votre main gauche
just in case you were wondering.
au cas où vous vous demanderiez.
toujours assez sûrs
avec moins de la moitié,
to the way we function, right?
to so many different ideas.
à tant d'idées différentes.
et d'une certaine manière
working memory is awesome.
monde qui nous entoure.
for allowing us to communicate.
pour nous permettre de communiquer.
d'avoir une réflexion critique.
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apparemment c'est quatre,
unless we apply it to something,
que nous les appliquions à quelque chose,
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sur votre gauche
to this one over here,
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is how we negotiate that.
about a couple of strategies here,
information target-rich environment
do I agree with him?
suis-je d'accord avec lui ?
and when you get home,
became a very negative thing.
est devenu très négatif.
new knowledge to prior knowledge.
cette nouvelle connaissance à cette autre.
and it becomes more meaningful.
We are built for images.
On est fait pour les images.
everything that happens to us.
approximation of sophistication.
de la sophistication.
We have to support that.
On doit encourager ça.
des questions à quelqu'un,
an organizational chart on it
avec un organigramme
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Peter Doolittle - Educational psychology professorPeter Doolittle is striving to understand the processes of human learning.
Why you should listen
Peter Doolittle is a professor of educational psychology in the School of Education at Virginia Tech, where he is also the executive director of the Center for Instructional Development and Educational Research. He teaches classes such as Cognition and Instruction, Constructivism and Education, Multimedia Cognition and College Teaching, but his research mainly focuses on learning in multimedia environments and the role of "working memory."
Doolittle has taught educational psychology around the world. He is the executive editor of the International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education and the co-executive editor of the International Journal of ePortfolio.
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