Please select (a), (b) or (c) and post your experience/reflection on your blog.
(a) Go to www.luminosity.com. Create a free account. Train your brains for 5 days. Report your progress and share your experience. You can customize the training based on what you are interested in. Do you think that the daily use of these activities help users to better learners, memorize important facts, increase task speed and accuracy or solve problems?
(b) What do mobile phones, loud radios and DVD players in cars, as well as high traffic, passengers, and other modern elements mean for driver attention to actual driving? If it is available to you, try going into a room that has a radio, TV, and any other distraction you can find. Now try to do your multiplication tables through 12. Talk about your experience. How much cognitive load can a driver handle while remaining effective at his/her task? Now, think about this in terms of the noise of an educational environment. How much noise is useful during learning? How much interferes with attention and consciousness? How should this impact the design of a learning environment? How much should it? Please look up some research to support your arguments.
(c) As a learner, what strategies do you use to pay attention? Please discuss 3 or more strategies and explain from a cognition point of view why these strategies work for you.
The most famous hermits in Literature.
Marcel Proust (France) - wrote the seven volume "In Search of Lost Time" after the untimely deaths of his parents. Proust secluded himself in his apartment and would only go out at night.
Emily Dickinson (United States) - only published seven poems in her lifetime. In 1862 Dickinson broke up with her boyfriend and went into seclusion.
Leo Tolstoy (Russia) - writer, playwright, activist, and philosopher.
Thomas Bernhard (Austria) - novelist, poet, and playright.
(a) Go to www.luminosity.com. Create a free account. Train your brains for 5 days. Report your progress and share your experience. You can customize the training based on what you are interested in. Do you think that the daily use of these activities help users to better learners, memorize important facts, increase task speed and accuracy or solve problems?
(b) What do mobile phones, loud radios and DVD players in cars, as well as high traffic, passengers, and other modern elements mean for driver attention to actual driving? If it is available to you, try going into a room that has a radio, TV, and any other distraction you can find. Now try to do your multiplication tables through 12. Talk about your experience. How much cognitive load can a driver handle while remaining effective at his/her task? Now, think about this in terms of the noise of an educational environment. How much noise is useful during learning? How much interferes with attention and consciousness? How should this impact the design of a learning environment? How much should it? Please look up some research to support your arguments.
(c) As a learner, what strategies do you use to pay attention? Please discuss 3 or more strategies and explain from a cognition point of view why these strategies work for you.
The most famous hermits in Literature.
Marcel Proust (France) - wrote the seven volume "In Search of Lost Time" after the untimely deaths of his parents. Proust secluded himself in his apartment and would only go out at night.
Emily Dickinson (United States) - only published seven poems in her lifetime. In 1862 Dickinson broke up with her boyfriend and went into seclusion.
Leo Tolstoy (Russia) - writer, playwright, activist, and philosopher.
Thomas Bernhard (Austria) - novelist, poet, and playright.
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