Checkpoint: Elevator Speech Resources: Appendix C View the Elevator Speech story located at http://corptrain.phoenix.edu/axia/gen105/elevator_01.html Construct a 200- to 300-word scenario in which you explain distance learning to a friend. Explain how Axia courses work and use the following terms at least once: Threaded discussion Forums Asynchronous communication Feedback Dave! How’s it going man? I’ve got to tell you about this new school I’m enrolled in. I decided it was time for me to go back to school, but working full time I knew it wasn’t going to be easy.
Human Learning and Memory Krystal Arias, Andrea Cabeza, Lynn Eubanks, Cara Mendoza, Marshall Stafford Psych575 April 11, 2011 Dr. Mireille Reece Human Learning and Memory Learning and memory are two very amazing concepts of the human mind that operate hand in hand with one another. Without one it is difficult to have the other. The ability to learn is a tool that you will use throughout a life time. Your memory stores what you have learned along with all of the life long memories that you create and cherish. It sounds simple, but when you break the process down it becomes much more complicated.
The definition of memory is the ability to store things in a persons mind and to be able to recall them. This idea would be useful for people of our past times, in order for hunting and avoiding danger. If we were able to remember every part of our life, we would find it difficult to expel the information because of the enormous amount of information stored. Memory is used for lots of things. Examples being: remembering previous conversations, recognising people by their faces, as well as other things.
The eyes send information to the brain where it is interpreted and integrated as a three dimensional phenomenom. (Knudson and Kluka 1991).This integration is known as “fusion”.The eyes continuously move throughout the visual field until something gets our attention and we will focus both eyes on that object.This is known as “fixation”.Fixations are important because focus ability is limited to about 3 degrees.Because the focus of the visual field is so small,peripheral vision is very important in sport.The information gathered from our peripheral
How the Web Destroys the Quality of Students’ Research Papers In the article “How the Web Destroys the Quality of Students’ Research Papers”, David Rothenberg argues that the qualities of undergraduate’s papers have been reducing because of overuse of the internet. Accordingly his article, Rothenberg tells us that mostly students, who find information from the Web, is based on fundamental facts. First, he points that there are only articles or information on the bibliography cites and those information are out dated, he sees one of his student’s work that his resource has been published for a long time. He also discovers most of the students’ works are very cleanly and analysis it nicely, but actually the details that his student give are not related to the material; it jumps on and off on the topics. Moreover, students do not try to proof read their assignment before they hand it out.
Evaluate one theory of how emotion may affect one cognitive process In my answer, an appraisal will be made weighing up the strengths and limitations on the flashbulb memory theory and how the theory affects the cognitive process of memory. According to the theory, flashbulb memories form in situations where we encounter surprising and highly emotional information. It is maintained by means of overt rehearsal, such as discussion with others, and covert behaviour, such as private rehearsing. Flashbulb memories are different than normal memories as they are more vivid, consistent, and accurate and they last longer. When a flashbulb memory is made, neural mechanism triggers an emotional arousal because the event is important or shocking.
Many people enroll themselves in motor learning classes so they can learn how other people learn. I enrolled myself in motor learning to learn how my students learn but also to know how that learning is forgotten, if I do end up in the Physical Therapy profession. Donald A. Norman said, “To remember is to have managed three things successfully; the acquisition, retention, and retrieval of information. Failure to remember means failure at managing one of those three things.” (2) Learning goes beyond remembering says Norman, “Learning and remembering are closely related concepts. But learning is more than simply remembering; it is also performance, the ability to do a task with skill…Learning involves purposeful remembering and skillful performance.” (3) So when learning is forgotten it ultimately means that we have not forgotten the skill all together, but that we are having trouble recalling that skill.
Primary memory serves as a buffer for information. For example, if I was sitting in class and the teacher wrote some names on the board such as Lipitor, Sertraline and Vitamin C and then she erased them and asked me to recall the medications she had written from memory I would only need to have retained the information briefly, so I wouldn’t necessarily enter the names in secondary memory but I would maintain the three items in primary memory. Thus primary memory both retrieve information from secondary memory and takes in information from the environment, either for temporary maintenance or possibly for entry into secondary memory. (Willingham, D. T., 2007) Primary memory is also known as short term memory and Secondary memory is known as long term memory. The characteristics of primary memory include how forgetting occurs, how memories are represented, and how much information can be stored (Willingham, D. T., 2007).
Shirky immediately establishes his credibility with The Washington Post readers by acknowledging his occupation as a professor in the field of social media. With this statement, he also diffuses any counter-arguments directed towards his insight and familiarity with modern technology. Furthermore, Shirky asserts that multi-tasking is a negative consequence of allowing laptops, tablets and phones to be used in class. He elaborates on the negative effects of multi-tasking by stating, “We’ve known for some time that multi-tasking is bad for the quality of cognitive work, and is especially punishing of the kind of cognitive work we ask of college students” (Strauss 4). To substantiate his position against the unproductive nature of multi-tasking, Shirky qualifies his statements with research from a Standford University study.
So it makes it hard to know if the students cheat more in online education. The authors of this article also raise an excellent question: “Whether students engaged in online education have a fundamentally different perception of what does and does not constitute as cheating?” The second article I read was Academic Integrity and Distance Learning by Mark M. Lanier, published in October 2006. I found this article in the database ProQuest, using the keywords online courses and academic honesty. The article is not peer reviewed. The issues related to academic honesty in this article are similar to the issues I found in the first article.