Jane Bowerman, Ph.D.

 How Do I Know?
So, are you wondering how you learn stuff? Cognitive Psychology suggests many theories concerning learning and the ways people develop to understand and remember information. Go to this link

Teaching and Learning focus our knowledge. Understanding information to make it personal knowledge takes purposeful and intentional effort. The deep and surface learning concept helps us internalize this idea.

Communication

From the moment we learn that words, as symbols, have meaning, we also learn that cultures determine meaning and that symbolic interaction occurs between people constantly. One scientist who can help us understand the way we speak is Deborah Tannen. Why do we have so much difficulty understanding what others 'mean' when they speak?

                                                                                                 

Want to practice right brain thinking?

Betty Edwards has developed an interesting program. Try Drawing with Betty Edwards or here

Here is the idea: Edwards' theory

Connections James Burke proposes that everything is connected, no information exists in isolation. Our work is to make connections between what we know so that we continue to learn throughout life

What sense do we make of the knowledge we have? Metacognition allows us to think about what and how we think.