Wednesday, March 24, 2010
This Week (5??? [I don't know where four went])...
Learning about how memory and how we think really interested me this week. I've always felt like I have a fairly poor short term memory so to learn why that is kept me attention. Perhaps when people are telling me things or I am telling others things, I tend to lose focus causing me not to encode the full message. I am trying to make a concerted effort to pay more attention in all aspects of my life. But connecting this info to class, I defintely noticed that because of the netbooks I tend to lose focus with what the discussion is in class. Its almost like I have to be 100% on task to fully grasp what is going on, this definetely holds true in Spanish. In that class too, I tend to zone out and it is super hard to get back on track especially because it is a different language.
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i also feel this way. Even when I'm taking notes on my netbook, I feel that becuse I'm not looking at Dreier when taking notes I don't really get the information into my brain.
ReplyDeleteThis is a great example of why students aren't meant to learn through lectures. 75% of the time we either are zoned out, day dreaming, or trying to figure out why our netbook batteries are so low all the time. But, i do agree that unless you are really pay attention, it is easy for your short term memory to basically retain no knowledge whatsoever.
ReplyDeleteI would agree with you. It seems that the netbooks seem to distract me too. I usually need to focus pretty hard to actually take in what i am hearing, but with the netbooks, i can sometimes get off task. This then will cause me to get side tracked and soon the next thing i know, the class is talking about something totally different. I also tend to zone out a lot and so have trouble encoding certain things.
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