{"id":2109,"date":"2017-06-16T08:00:17","date_gmt":"2017-06-16T08:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/blog\/?p=2109"},"modified":"2017-12-25T02:50:27","modified_gmt":"2017-12-25T02:50:27","slug":"lightening-the-cognitive-load","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/lightening-the-cognitive-load\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightening the Cognitive Load"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/AdobeStock_63215125_Credit.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2110 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/AdobeStock_63215125_Credit-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"AdobeStock_63215125_Credit\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/AdobeStock_63215125_Credit-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/AdobeStock_63215125_Credit-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How should we manage working memory limitations in the classroom?<\/p>\n<p>Furtheredogogy has a <a href=\"https:\/\/furtheredagogy.wordpress.com\/2017\/05\/20\/cognitive-load-theory\/\" target=\"_blank\">handy post<\/a> about Cognitive Load Theory, which is basically a fancy way of saying &#8220;taking care of our students&#8217; working memory capacity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Notice, btw, that the author suggests <em>worked examples<\/em> as a working-memory friendly alternative to project-based learning&#8211;which can all to often overwhelm students&#8217; cognitive resources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How should we manage working memory limitations in the classroom? Furtheredogogy has a handy post about Cognitive Load Theory, which is basically a fancy way of saying &#8220;taking care of our students&#8217; working memory capacity.&#8221; Notice, btw, that the author suggests worked examples as a working-memory friendly alternative to project-based learning&#8211;which can all to often [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":2110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[15,30],"class_list":["post-2109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lb-blog","tag-classroom-advice","tag-working-memory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2109"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2112,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109\/revisions\/2112"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}