Information Processing

Information Processing

(Facilitating Learning - A Metacognitive Process, Lucas & Corpuz)

APPLICATION:

Process	Teaching Implications
Information is received through the senses.	Be sure that the learners’ senses are functioning well.
	Helping the learners to use their senses properly in acquiring information and process that information to become long term knowledge.
If information is not relevant, it decays.	Feeding the learners with appropriate information needed for long term storing of memory.
	The learners must be motivated by keeping them in rehearsing the acquired data to retain the information.
If information goes to the short term memory and if given attention and is found to be relevant, it is sent to the Long Term Memory.	The newly acquired information of the learners must be given an attention so that it may send to the Long Term Memory.
	The teacher should teach the learners of the methods for increasing retrieval of information to minimize the inability of accessing the information.
If the information is not properly encoded, forgetting occurs.	The teacher should properly encode the information to the minds of the learners.
	The teacher should inspire the learners in assessing themselves to bring the information to their consciousness or the necessity to get their attention to it.
There are methods to increase retrieval of information when needed.	Teaching the learners with Mnemonic-memory techniques will increase the learners’ knowledge retrieval.
	Teacher should initiate lesson and test rehearsal for increasing retrieval of information.

From the module on Information Processing, I learned that information processing theory is dealing with how the learners receive, perceive, store and retrieve information. It is also deal with how person thinks about and interprets what he/she receives shapes what he/she will learn.

There are types of knowledge that the learner may receive; and these are the following:

· General versus Specific

· Declarative

· Procedural

· Episodic

· Conditional

The stages in the information Processing Theory are the following:

· Encoding – the feeding of information.

· Storage – the acquisition of information.

· Retrieval – the knowledge of information.

In minimizing the inability of the learner to retrieve or recover his/her knowledge due to memory lose or any interference that cause him/her to forget the stored information; the student should know the memory methods in increasing the retrieval of information:

· Rehearsal

· Meaningful Learning

· Organization

· Elaboration

· Visual Imagery

· Generation or Producing

· Context

· Mnemonic techniques

· Recency and Primacy

· Part Learning

· Distributed Practice

Responded by: G-one T. Paisones