How to adress children's inabilitie to information processing in science?
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These stages in order include attending, encoding, storing, retrieving. Information processing also talks about three stages of receiving information into our memory. These include sensory memory, short-term memory, and long-term memory.
The transference of information to the long term memory is important, as information cannot rest in the short term memory (the short term memory can only hold seven pieces of information at a time). An overload in the short term memory can result in cognitive overload.
Teachers can help students who are suffering from information overload by letting students know what are the critical elements of the information; in other words, prioritizing the information.
Make sure you have the students’ attention, and help students to make connections between new material and what they already know.