Sunday, April 19, 2009

Week 7 - Instructional strategies for Fact and Concept learning

Fact and Concepts.

Fact = "knowing that" eg. Names of objects, composition of water= h20

Methods to remember facts

1] Chunking
eg. 62353535 -------->6-235-35-35 break them into chunks

2] memonics ----------> acronyms like PIE = pan island express way. KFC= kentucky fried chicken.

Concepts learned can be applied to a variety of circumstances, it is "knowing what is and knowing the meaning of.

there are 2 types of concept - Abstract and concrete.

Concrete= things that can be seem. Eg. all angles of triangle add up to 180 degrees.
Abstract = something like arts.

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