IPT 301 WEEK 5 COGNITION

1.Helping students pay attention and helping students store and retrieve information effectively are the two most useful intructional strategies. There are various strategies under each strategy to help the students with these functions. I think it is important to help students with these strategies so that they remember the work that is being taught so that they can be assessed according to what they know. If we can help students remember and help them retrievei information it will make our jobs easier for one, but it will also help them draw connections with previous and current work.

2. Low-road transfer: involves the spontaneous , automatic transfer of highly practical skills, with little need for reflective thinking. Automaticity occurs when a person performs a task very fast. E.g.1. A soccor player knows that when the ball is coing towards him he has to kick it. He has learned this skill and now it is something that he/she does automatically. E.g.2. When we read, we read from left to right, it is something that we have become proficient in and thats how we have been taught, so without thinking about it when we pickup a book, we automatically read from left to right.

High-road transfer: a strategy where an individual purposefully and consciously applies general knowledge.e.g. 1 In a math problem to multiply fraction, i might try to remeber how i would use that multiplication strategy to solve another multiplication strategy that i previously have. E.g. 2 When i cook a specific dish i might try an remember the strategies i used when i cooked it before, so that i might make is as good as it was last time.

3. I think problem-solving transfer and analogical transfer i have seen used the most in a classroom of public education. Students in subjects may need to recall analgies to help with new ones and also in math students use problem solving strategies used before to solve new problems.

4. I use algorithms in math class all the time. A prescribed sequence of steps to achieve a goal.
I have use heuristics when i sew, i estimate how much material i will need when i look at a specific person to figure out how much material will be needed to make a shirt for that person, by looking at their figure, weight and height. I do not take the formal steps in taking the exact measurements, but i make an educated guess about how much material i will need.