1. This website entitled "The Information Processing Approach to Cognition" and is an article written for Educational Psychology Interactive. It discusses the different approaches to making learning and information become a part of long-term memory. The final part of the article is a chart that instructs on how to use the information processing approach in the classroom and gives suggestions for how to gain students' attention, relate new information to prior learning, etc. This is an informative article that offers helpful suggestions and breaks down the different parts and types of memory.
2. The topic of this website is also Information Processing, and it is titled "Developmental Theory: Cognitive and Information Processing." The author(s) states that "Information processing is not a theory of cognition but rather a general framework that comprises a family of theories sharing certain core assumptions." They also go on to discuss how this relates to the education of children and the approaches that should be taken in order for students to learn best. This is important to me as an educator to understand how to best teach my students.
3. This website specifically targets teachers and discusses how children learn and information processing theory as it relates to them. It is titled "The Information Processing Theory and its Effect on Children and Learning." The article discussed how children learn from a young age and talks about how if teachers understand learning processing theory they will be better able to meet the needs of their learners. Since I am a teacher, I was very interested in the information presented in this article. The only thing that was frustrating about this website was the overabundance of advertising.
