Computer doesn’t have intuition, can not make subjective judgements.
Does storytelling work because they evoke emotional responses (caring, stress, anger, desire), and such affective factors may influence memory?
Tutors relate anecdotes or stories to trigger emotional response, however slight
Moreover, tutors provide multiple opportunities for an individual to connect their own unique background knowledge to the current “story”
Are we primed to remember events by cultural schema? do we remember our own wedding reception because it was so “memorable”/important or because you were primed for that event by cultural schema?
Are clinical psychologists so used to saying “it was real for you” about emotional respnses that they are trained to be unwilling to discriminate truth from invention?
IPT 692R Notes: 3/20/2010
Willingham’s book “Why Don’t Students Like to Learn”
I’m reading it now, too, and it reminded me of some videos I saw on YouTube last year, which, unbeknownst to me, happen to be by Willingham:
Teaching Content is Teaching Reading
Learning Styles Don’t Exist
Tutors shape stories to connect to background knowledge.
See Siemens’s idea in connectivism.
ZPD, zone of proximal development -- anecdote of self-taught web development
does the information (access and generation) explosion on the web enable individuals to scaffold themselves?
yes, but if the learner is sufficiently motivated /and/ able to metacogitate.
Computer doesn’t have intuition, can not make subjective judgements.
Does storytelling work because they evoke emotional responses (caring, stress, anger, desire), and such affective factors may influence memory?
Tutors relate anecdotes or stories to trigger emotional response, however slight
Moreover, tutors provide multiple opportunities for an individual to connect their own unique background knowledge to the current “story”
Are we primed to remember events by cultural schema? do we remember our own wedding reception because it was so “memorable”/important or because you were primed for that event by cultural schema?
Are clinical psychologists so used to saying “it was real for you” about emotional respnses that they are trained to be unwilling to discriminate truth from invention?