{"id":21961,"date":"2017-02-22T08:34:05","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T12:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/?p=21961"},"modified":"2017-02-22T08:34:05","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T12:34:05","slug":"how-good-is-your-working-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/school-news\/how-good-is-your-working-memory\/","title":{"rendered":"How Good is Your Working Memory?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Year 6 have realised that their everyday school life requires them to remember many things!\u00a0 Time tables, spellings, punctuation rules, homework, vocabulary, scientific facts\u2026the list goes on and on.\u00a0 It comes as no surprise that our brain oversees these things; and that working memory differs from one person to the next.\u00a0 Indeed, the ways in which individuals can process, retain and recall information is dependent on many factors.<\/p>\n

With this in mind, Year 6 set out to investigate how strong their own working memory is.\u00a0 Each student created a memory board based upon a theme of their choice. The range included: foods, drinks, sports, football teams, football payers, landmarks, art styles and more!\u00a0 The memory boards included an array of images and words.\u00a0 With the ground work complete, Year 6 students were ready to experiment.<\/p>\n

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Working in pairs allowed the students to memorise each other\u2019s boards within a set amount of time.\u00a0 Once time was up they had to note what they had memorised; gaining valuable points in the process for every image and word recalled correctly.<\/p>\n

This proved more challenging than originally thought.\u00a0 In our plenary of the lesson, it was interesting to note how different individuals employed different memorisation strategies.\u00a0 Such strategies included: word recognition, picture analysis, working with the positioning of items on the board and so on.\u00a0 More importantly, this was an excellent Science\/Mind Up exercise in noting how we memorise; and how we can develop our own memory skills to assist life and work in the future.<\/p>\n

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Year 6 have realised that their everyday school life requires them to remember many things!\u00a0 Time tables, spellings, punctuation rules, homework, vocabulary, scientific facts\u2026the list goes on and on.\u00a0 It comes as no surprise that our brain oversees these things; and that working memory differs from one person to the next.\u00a0 Indeed, the ways in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,18],"tags":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21961"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21961"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21977,"href":"https:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21961\/revisions\/21977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}