DIGITAL LIBRARY
IMPROVING MEMORY AND LEARNING SKILLS IN STUDENTS
University of Zaragoza (SPAIN)
About this paper:
Appears in: EDULEARN20 Proceedings
Publication year: 2020
Page: 5161
ISBN: 978-84-09-17979-4
ISSN: 2340-1117
doi: 10.21125/edulearn.2020.1347
Conference name: 12th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies
Dates: 6-7 July, 2020
Location: Online Conference
Abstract:
The style of usual theoretical classes that teachers are used to using in our classrooms often leads to memory and learning problems for our students. Sometimes, we make the mistake of imparting theoretical concepts without being aware (neither students nor teachers) of whether the theoretical knowledge that we are trying to transmit in the subject is really being acquired. Thus, many times in the objective final evaluation test the students fail and this result is not understandable for students or teachers. Therefore, the objective of this work is to create a work strategy for students to improve their memory and learning skills. Specifically, in recent years, low scores have been observed in the theoretical part of the subject "Evolutionary processes and diversity" in the primary education teaching degree and it will be here that the present teaching innovation project will be carried out using a new strategy in which after each theoretical topic the students will have to work in groups the elaboration of 10 questions to present it to another group of classmates that they will have to solve as an exam. The results will be evaluated in the next months when the students finish the subject and we will can compared the results in the subject between different academic courses using and not using this thecnique. At the moment we don´t have stadistical results (this work is only a descriptive proposed) but between the main conclusions of our proposal is to improve the perfomance in the room and we suggest that this activity will strengthen the theoretical concepts of the subject and consequently the results of the students.
Keywords:
Learning, memory, skills, students, teaching tools.