Cognitive Load
Essential to training - Cognitive Load
Loading is important in successful cognitive training
The brain responds physically to the need to process multiple bits of incoming information. It is designed perfectly to process, associate, evaluate, and store or discard a large quantity of incoming information. Loading involves structuring multiple simultaneous tasks.
Cognitive Load – Application
Application: LearningRx uses loading principles in every series of sequenced drills. For instance, a student may be required to count by three on beat to the sound of a metronome (counting every other beat) and at the same time listen and respond to the trainer’s instructions. Drills like these take a good deal of concentration as well as the ability to successfully divide attention between multiple tasks, to calculate, to create association, and to communicate -- all at once.
Exercises such as this will literally force the brain to fire up multiple connections and recruit neurons to handle the task. All this activity leads to lasting, dramatic changes in learning capacity. Loading is a powerful tool used to expand a student’s capacity to think quickly and accurately while accomplishing complicated tasks.
A student who masters sequenced tasks involved with loading and distraction has dramatically expanded his or her attention skills and capacity to learn. You can see how these procedures become a valuable measure of feedback as a child’s progress is tracked. They are the ultimate evidence of big, fast changes. Progress becomes obvious.
The learning problems a student typically enters training with simply do not allow the kind of simultaneous tasking that LearningRx programs develop. In almost every case, however, a learner rapidly moves through such drills successfully. Confidence and self-esteem soar at this stage. Virtually every student can show improvement in these drills and reap the benefits of increased self-esteem.
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Excerpts of the book Unlock the Enstein Inside by Dr. Ken Gibson
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