All tagged cognitive load
In today’s blog, I’m covering an older paper by Mousavi, Low, and Sweller from 1995 (1) titled Reducing Cognitive Load by Mixing Auditory and Visual Presentation Modes. The goal of their paper was to experimentally test whether heavy cognitive overload could …
Our brains - that’s the part that does the thinking - are, for better or worse, part of our bodies .... As such there are a vast number of interconnected systems that affect us and our thinking and learning as we move throughout the day. Even your mood can affect your memory and your ability to perform well on an exam.
Cognitive Load Theory is an influential theory from educational psychology that describes how various factors affect our ability to use our working memory resources. We’ve done a digest about cognitive load theory here and talked about it here and here, but haven’t provided an overview of the theory so I want to give an overview here.
As a former high school math and science teacher, one question drove me nuts: when will we ever use this again? According to researchers Kron et al. (1), it turns out the stuff you learned in school just might be the kind of cognitive exercises that are the keys to influencing your feelings…
In the world of COVID-19, video conferencing has become commonplace. Many of us spend our days on back to back video calls and find ourselves exhausted by the end. This phenomenon has been dubbed “zoom fatigue” but applies to any type of video conferencing.
My post today is a personal reflection on effective feedback use. Feedback is a crucial aspect of the learning process. It helps us correct errors and improve performance in the future. However, effective feedback remains a problem in education.
