Memory reflections

Memory is an important and vital capacity, that retains all the information and experiences people have, live, recieve, etc., as the introduction of the memory aspect's section explains. It allows as to learn, because if the contents did not remain in the mind, the learning task could not be able to exist. Knowledge is a constant process that is extended little by little, preserving and accumulating information, and associating stored learning to the new one that is acquired through growth and mature. So, without memory is impossible to learn (well, is impossible to live because people need to remember their vital needs and functions, but this block wants to focus on the learning).

The knowledge acquired in the school is basically learned through memorization and then incorporation of the concepts learned. It is bad to make children to memorize all the contents and make them to take an exam to value if they have memorized all they have worked in class; but the school should develop and strengthen the memory ability through methods like memory dynamics, converting a developmental activity into a game. St this way children will remember better the concepts of the class, but also they will develop and improve the capacity to retain the infromation and the experiences at their mind, having a good long-term memory. It can be done playing some existing games, changing and adapting some other ones, or inventing new strategy games to develop the memory.

*There are some examples in the "Memory strategies" part of the block

Teachers must have into account the cone that is shown and descrived in the section of "Introduction to the concept memory's concept", into this thematic block (IV), in the moment of teaching. They should be aware of teaching by explaining, because the verbal reception is the one that is forgotten easier. They have to teach children making them to participate on the class, providing ideas, their thoughts, their point of view of the things that they are working, answering the questions of the teachers (they should make questions), making them questions to the teacher and discussing with the classmates, organizing debates, applying what they are learning (in real situations, focusing on working with material handling...), etc. At this way, children will be able to remember more concepts and for a longer period of time, without memorizing them for a short period of time.

One of the most important things that teachers should take care of, is to be sure thatthey are teaching well, what means that children understand the contents and they know to apply and explain them. To reach it, they should give resourses, tools and techniques to their students. If you are a teacher and you do not know any kind of strategy, look for some ones (in the part of this block that briefly talks about strategies, in the Internet, in books, asking for them to other teachers, inventing them...), but give students some support. Your objective as a teacher is make children to get their objectives, to help them develop step by step, like if learning was stairs that children have to climb, and the objective of the children is to climb these stairs step by step at the time they have to do it, not to stay for much time at the same step, to progress and to go as farther as they can (knowledge never finishes, so they will never arrive to the top (it does not exist). But they should put goals through the stairs in order to reach them, and when they get their objectives, put another goal farther. Learning is a constant fact, a long way in which teachers and students should go together to reach a common objective.