{"id":3509,"date":"2018-06-17T08:00:55","date_gmt":"2018-06-17T13:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/blog\/?p=3509"},"modified":"2018-06-10T17:43:43","modified_gmt":"2018-06-10T22:43:43","slug":"capture-intergalactic-criminals-feel-mental-burn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/capture-intergalactic-criminals-feel-mental-burn\/","title":{"rendered":"Capture Intergalactic Criminals; Feel the Mental Burn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve posted a good bit recently about the dangers of working memory overload. (For instance: <a href=\"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/\/best-way-take-notes-feisty-debate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/\/the-great-homework-debate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/AdobeStock_202832723_Credit.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3512 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/AdobeStock_202832723_Credit-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/AdobeStock_202832723_Credit-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/AdobeStock_202832723_Credit-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/AdobeStock_202832723_Credit-768x767.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/AdobeStock_202832723_Credit.jpg 793w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Teachers can understand the dangers of WM overload. However, we rarely\u00a0<em>experience<\/em> WM overload in school. Because we&#8217;re in charge of the lesson, we keep it comfortably within our own mental limits.<\/p>\n<p>(Of course, faculty meetings can tax our working memory. As well as our patience.)<\/p>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s occasionally helpful for teachers to feel WM overload, so we can recognize what our students experience all too often.<\/p>\n<p>For that reason, I&#8217;m linking to the Ted Ed video below.<\/p>\n<p>Take six minutes. When you try to solve the riddle, you&#8217;ll abruptly recognize that baffled-and-stunned look you see on your students.<\/p>\n<p>You might even feel that way when you listen to the solution.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dh4nEuhZBgg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve posted a good bit recently about the dangers of working memory overload. (For instance: here and here.) Teachers can understand the dangers of WM overload. However, we rarely\u00a0experience WM overload in school. Because we&#8217;re in charge of the lesson, we keep it comfortably within our own mental limits. (Of course, faculty meetings can tax [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":3512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-3509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lb-blog","tag-working-memory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3509","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=3509"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3515,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3509\/revisions\/3515"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}