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Types of Memory Why Don't Students Like School: Chapter 1

This is an entire website dedicated to human memory and how it works at the neuronal levels! It is inclusive of memory disorders and memory processes. Not quite related to what we read, but still pretty cool.

Longform on memory and how out brain functions. I only read the first couple pages but it's fascinating. I'll come back and read the rest later.

National Geographic has this totally cool interactive page about memory.

I found a whole website dedicated to memory improvement!

Here are some techniques for improving memory, and I'm sure there are many more.

This has types of memory and it shows how memory works within our brain.

Another view of strategies to help memory.

This shows the process in which learning and memory connect.

Why don't students like school? Chapter 2

Why Don't Students Like School? Chapter 3

Since background knowledge is essential for critical thinking, that means we have to do some pre-teaching with our lessons! With regards to teaching reading, here are some strategies that you could even commit to memory. I'm sure there are many other strategies as well. :)

Since background knowledge is essential for critical thinking, that means we have to do some pre-teaching with our lessons! With regards to teaching reading, here are some strategies that you could even commit to memory. I'm sure there are many other strategies as well. :)

This site gives a lot about memory and then the links of the topic through psychology.

Claymation video of synaptic plasticity. In simpler terms, synaptic plasticity is the rearranging of neurons that can signal onto one another in order to increase brain function and to help create successful long term potentiation of signals (memory!)

From the article: A high-fat diet in adolescence appears to have long-lasting effects on learning and memory during adulthood, a new study in mice finds.

"The researchers calculated how much of the variation in MCAS scores was due to the school that students attended. For MCAS scores in English, schools accounted for 24 percent of the variation, and they accounted for 34 percent of the math MCAS variation. However, the schools accounted for very little of the variation in fluid cognitive skills - less than 3 percent for all three skills combined."

This is a video that breaks it down into more simple means for the students to understand how we categorize our memory when learning.

This website gives a more scientific overview of why memory occurs. Which is in part due to long term potentiation of synapses.