Learning and the Brain

The first source obtained for this week relating to learning and the brain retrieved at http://www.education.com/reference/article/theories-of-learning/.  The information in this article not only talks about the learning and the brain, but also gives a semi history of how various scientists have come to associate the brain with the learning skills of the individual(s) involved.  This website brings our assignment in resources to light as it talks about the concepts of learning, and in particular, the different types of learning.

The second source obtained for this week related to information processing retrieved at http://www.education.com/reference/article/information-processing-theory/.  The reason for choosing this is again the information is easy to understand for a layperson as myself.  This site goes more into the details of short-term memory (SM), the working memory (WM) and long-term memory (LM).  Other information located in this article is about encoding and retrieval, learning and cognitive strategies. 

DOORWAY TO PROF LEARNING

            Even though I have extensive knowledge of Facebook, LinkIn and used Twitter for a little while, this blogging is a different matter.  This is my second class at Walden University, and I have been working on registering for different blogging and websites in order to be able to participate in my class with my other classmates.  However, I have finally found a blog that I can work with and it is Blogger.  I have been able to follow various instructional design and training blogs with a little understanding.  This will be helpful for: 1) the class I am here to take in order to advance myself in the teaching world; 2) a blogging site, I understand a little and as time goes on, I hope to be able to have a deeper understanding of how this works.

            Even though I watched the videos several times, the video on “Blogging in Plain English” (Laureaute Education, 2013) for me was not in plain English, as I did not understand anymore about blogging then before I listened to it.  I took the chance and signed up with WordPress, so far I have been able to follow others that are in instructional design.  However, I found difficulties so this is when I changed over to Blogger.com.  There is one article in particular I read about how the online education is the wave for the future and I will be following this person’s ideas (Debbie Morrison, 2014).  There is so much information out there about blogging, instructional design and technology, that it does become overwhelming to absorb all of this information.  Another reason I found this site interesting is that it talks about Goggle+, Goggle Hangouts, Gmail and Yahoo!. I am confident that I will be able to become a successful blogger, as well as to learn about instructional design.

References

Debbie Morrison. (2014, March 9). The next big thing in online education..learning in real time. USA. 

Laureaute Education. (2013). Retrieved from Blogs in Plain English.