Peter Doolittle: How your "working memory" makes sense of the world
بيتر دوليتل: كيف تقوم "الذاكرة العاملة" بفهم العالم
Peter Doolittle is striving to understand the processes of human learning. Full bio
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كنا ننظر للأمام.
بالنسبة لي,
و مشيت حوله,
نظرت لارى ماذا يفعل
into our long-term memory
ذاكرتنا طويلة المدى
on standardized tests,
بدرجة عالية
is play a little bit with some of that.
working memory out for a ride.
حسنا.
I'm going to ask you to answer three questions.
أن تجيبوا على ثلاثة اسئلة.
(ضحك)
بالظبط -- (ضحك)
just in case you were wondering.
في حالة كنتم مستغربين.
to the way we function, right?
to so many different ideas.
working memory is awesome.
الذاكرة العاملة رائعة.
for allowing us to communicate.
(ضحك)
unless we apply it to something,
(ضحك)
(ضحك)
to this one over here,
(ضحك)
is how we negotiate that.
about a couple of strategies here,
information target-rich environment
do I agree with him?
and when you get home,
و عندما نذهب الى البيت
became a very negative thing.
new knowledge to prior knowledge.
ربط المعرفة الجديدة بمعرفة سابقة.
and it becomes more meaningful.
We are built for images.
نحن مبنيون على الصور.
هذا ما نفعله
everything that happens to us.
approximation of sophistication.
We have to support that.
لابد ان ندعم ذلك.
an organizational chart on it
الرسالة التي ناخذها معنا الى البيت
فنحن لا نعيشها.
شكرا.
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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