Types of Cognitive Load
This type of cognitive load has to do with the interactivity between the complexity of the new information and how much experience the learners have with the topic.
What is Intrinsic Cognitive Load?
Acknowledges that a learner’s previous experience in a topic benefits the learner by reducing the amount of information that needs to be processed up front.
What is the Expertise Reversal Effect?
When the working memory is not over-worked and can save information in the long-term memory.
What is Encoding?
An image with text that helps a learner quickly understand a complicated concept.
What is a diagram?
When an instructor stands in front of an audience and speaks for hours.
What is Lecture?
Also known as “effective cognitive load”, Germane cognitive load is desired to achieve deep learning. In this scenario intrinsic and extraneous cognitive load have left enough resources in the working memory to allow for the construction of schema in the long-term memory.
What is Germane cognitive load?
provide the learner with 20% of the problems already solved
What is the Worked example effect?
When the long-term memory can bring something up that the working memory stored.
What is Retrieval?
A comparison that describes how the topic is similar to a less complicated idea.
What is an analogy?
When an instructor sends videos or other media home to be viewed by learners at their own pace.
What is a Flipped Classroom
This type of cognitive load relates to assigning the learner tasks that do not directly relate to developing “Schema” or memory around content that is related to the topic. This taxes the working memory and decreases the amount of attention that can be focused on learning.
What is Extraneous cognitive load?
Replace multiple sources of information with a single source. Diagrams work better when the text is used to label the image as opposed as a list on the side.
What is the Split-attention effect?
When the working memory is developing information into memories.
What is developing Schema?
An activity that gives descriptions of words and participants must guess what word they are by the description and how the word fits into a two-dimensional linear puzzle.
What is a crossword puzzle?
Where learners apply new ideas in an environment that is as close to the authentic environment that it will be used in as possible.
What is Constructionism
Visual-Image, Visual Text, Auditory
What are the modalities
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What are the different types of input?
Consider the mode of the material: Audio, Visual text, Visual image
What is the Modality effect?
When information is being viewed by a learner.
What is the visual modality?
A game based off a TV show where answers are provided as questions.
What is Jeopardy?
What is problem-based learning
When there is too much information coming in and the student does not learn anything.
What is Cognitive Overload?
A learning environment from the Constructionism approach that aims to be a close to the environment that the knowledge will be applied in as possible.
What is an authentic learning environment?
When information is being heard by a learner.
What is the Auditory modality?
When content is clearly presented in a way that balances: Visual-Image, Visual Text, and Auditory.)
When learners work as a team to complete a task.
What is group based learning?