School of thought - Cognitive (2nd Reflection)

          My second reflection in Sir Teo class, the first group to present would be Rachel’s team, they will discuss about The Cognitive School of Thought which is one the first topic from the three school of thought.  Before I explain more about the topic, I still remember that time it’s a rainy day and my classmate including myself can already feel the "bed and pillow" (sleepy) 😴 but unfortunately the class must go on and as usual sir Teo will always keep us to stay awake with his joke. 👍😂

           The cognitive school of thought, it is study by the cognitive scientist about how people/student thinks or what goes inside our heads when we are learning. It has been contributed into two types of ideas by the cognitive scientists which is information processing and meaningful learning that helps us to understand how people learn and remember. To easier for us to remember, I will explain in my own words about what is information processing and meaningful learning.

Information processing: it is about how we mentally take in and store information and we retrieve it when we needed. For example, as a tutor if we understand and know about the information processing, we should be able to help our student in become a better at taking in and remembering information. Furthermore, it is also expand into two types of remembering information which are short term memory and long term memory. The following figure is illustrate how the study believes information is process.

Meaningful learning: it is about how information can be made more meaningful so that it can be better understood and used, there are several other recommended ways of teaching that are expansions or elaboration of forms of meaningful learning which is authentic learning, scaffolding, reciprocal teaching (ReT) and problem solving. 

That's all from my simple explanation and visual for us to understand well about cognitive school of thought. 💁😀