The document discusses how students organize knowledge and how it affects their learning. It states that learning results in permanent changes in behavior and cognitive patterns. The document also notes that learning depends on transforming information into knowledge. Finally, it suggests that teachers can help students by making their own thinking processes explicit and by helping students learn to organize content into explicit patterns.

1. How does the way
students organize
knowledge affect their
learning?
D. Bonnycastle
Aug. 2011

2. Definition
Learning results in a permanent
change in:
 student’s behaviour
 cognitive patterns.

3. Learning depends on the
transformation of information
into knowledge
-Dr. F. Papa

4. Learners come in many types
http://youtu.be/HZEmxby8g8A

5. Cognitive Patterns Lucy

6. Cognitive Patterns Schroeder

7. Cognitive Patterns Linus

8. Example of an
illness pattern

9. Teacher’s Problem
You have complex, integrated
patterns built up over time that can
be retrieved from memory
automatically. For you, answers to
problems based on your patterns
are obvious and quick to retrieve.

10. Student’s Problem
• Something that sounds familiar
does not equal knowing
• Something memorized may not
be a pattern
• Content memorized for multiple
choice exams is not easily
accessible later

11. Teacher’s Role
• Make your thinking process
explicit (Intentional Role
Modeling)
• Help students learn to organize
content into explicit patterns.

12. Making Implicit Explicit
from http://www.bmj.com/content/336/7646/718.full

13. How do you make
your thinking process
explicit?

14. How do you help students
learn to organize content
into explicit patterns?