Reading #3 Questions & Answers

Here are my answers to the third required reading of Multimodal Learning Through Media: What the Research Says.

1.      Explain how the reading expanded your knowledge of how we use our senses and memory to interact with the world.

My knowledge expanded with the three types of memory being identified using a block design to show Sensory (Sensing) Memory, Working (Thinking) Memory and Long-Term (Memory Bank) Memory. I never considered these to be the titles. We all learn differently based on the initial senses we experience with. Then we can choose to store or remember certain information and our memory bank can become overloaded making it hard for us to remember at times.

2.      Provide some examples of the various types of memory from your academic career.

 Three examples of the various types of memory from my academic career are:

1.      I can remember having to memorize certain equations in Algebra class for every chapter in the book. I learned them by visualizing and reciting them over and over again. If I could picture them on the blackboard, then I learned them for the test.

                       2.      In order to remember what I read in Literature class, I learned best by listening                               to the recording of the literature, whether it was a book, or a poem, or a                               journalism piece. I went as far as to make up a simple song and sing it to myself
                              as I took a test or quiz.

           3.      In History class, I would make up Jeopardy clues to memorize certain facts and                   historical information.  Those clues became quiz or test questions which memorize visually and auditorily.

3.      How has this class so far interacted with your existing schema of instructional technology?

This class has opened a whole new world of technology to me first through using Blackboard and then through Blogger. I barely started on Face book before this class and now I know how to create a blog with gadgets and little extras. Far as teaching blogs and creating them for my students to use in class, I think I need a little more experience in order to feel more comfortable teaching my students, so they will learn effectively.

4.      Multitasking: Fact or Fiction based upon your reading.

 I believe multitasking is factual because for me, it has become a way of life. I’m constantly thinking about two or three things while only doing two tasks at the same time. Usually, everything I’m thinking and doing overlap. An example is happening right now as I’m typing this answer, I’m thinking about tomorrow’s activities and what I time I will get this posted, and what time I will go to bed.