Really falling behind on these. Need to do two just to get caught up 🙁

Here are my reflections on Clark’s blog on Kandel.

Quote: “Learning, for Kandel, is the ability to acquire new ideas from experience and retain them as memories…”
Reflection: Experiential learning is important, but it can quickly degrade over time without reinforcement, right?

Quote: “Short term memory storage modifies existing proteins and alters existing synaptic connections. Long-term storage involves gene activation, the creation of new protein and new synaptic connections. Kandel therefore found the link between experience and biology. Learning could now be seen as experience captured as cellular change.“
Reflection: This is good stuff. Moving from learning as a thought of being behavioral to being somehow residing at a much deeper level. It makes sense to me that longer-term, deeper memory becomes a part of us.

Quote: “We know how deficient short-term memory is because there is no fundamental chemical and physiological change, whereas long-term memory does involve chemical and physiological change.“
Reflection: Pretty profound. Definitely an important idea to consider for anyone who is involved in teaching and learning.

Quote: “…we have strong physiological, cellular and molecular evidence for the difference between short and long term memory, we can apply technology to enhancing learning through spaced practice.“
Reflection: I think that it’s so important to bring back concepts. It’s one of the things that I’m practicing in the course that I’m currently teaching. Bringing back concepts helps me to demonstrate to my students how important I think that retaining knowledge is.

Quote: “…recording all lectures for repeated access to the content by students is just one of many changes one could implement in education.“
Reflection: This is a practice that we are constantly reinforcing in the program.

Quote: “Improving attention, feedback and reinforcement to improve the move from short to long term memory by avoiding cognitive overload,  better elaboration and deeper processing is surely what technology promises to deliver.“
Reflection: Great points in how e-learning can help enhance any teaching/learning environment.