Cognitive Learning & Memory

What are the essential skills and/or learning outcomes you want your students to know and be able to do that relate to cognitive learning? 

I want my futures students to know how to take information and apply it to decision making and problem solving. In class, students won't know all the information given but if they have the skills to break it down and process pieces of a time it will help them in all subjects. I want my students to take new information and make connections to their life. Once students can do that it will help them retain the information. Memorization is key to cognitive learning. I would like to do activites to show the difference between long and short term memory. If they can recall memories, I will know more about their cognitive learning. Another major part to cognitive learning is concerntration. I would love to teach the students how to focus their attention on a task. The most important skill for me would be application of their cognitive learning. I want them to process, memorize, recall and concentrate but if they can't apply their learning, it is for nothing.

I knew about cognitive learning from other classes but I refered to a website for help. I got to dig in to what I think are essential skills that relate to cognitive learning.

http://www.livestrong.com/article/151537-cognitive-learning-in-children/

I learned several tips from the memory teaching projects. I have heard that studying before bed will help you remember the material for the test but you learn for a short time.I have done this plenty of times but I didn't realize there was research behind it. I also thought it was interesting to learn ways to improve memorization.I will definitely have my future students make connections with what they are learning and use imagery like Jordan did with his grocery list. That was creative but helpful. I also liked the idea for acronyms.