Additional Weblinks

Below are additional weblinks relevant to this chapter's topics:

Strategies
An article mainly based on an interview with Robert Siegler, a leading expert on children's thinking. In the interview, Siegler discusses the importance of focusing on strategies in children's learning.

• http://www.psy.cmu.edu/psy/faculty/rsiegler.html

Memory Links
Lots of good links to information about memory, including how and why people remember, forgetting, and memory games to play with children.

• http://www.exploratorium.edu/memory/links.html

Exploring Memory Models
Discusses different cognitive views. Links to information about Pavio's views on imagery. Craik and Lockhart's level of processing theory, views on declarative, procedural, and working memory, and other models.

• http://www.gwu.edu/~tip/memory.html

Short-Term Memory
A short-term memory demonstration that lets you experience the range and limitations of this memory system.

• http://pantheon.cis.yale.edu/~bayern/feb15-demo1.html

Metacognition
Explore the concept of metacognition and connect with other sites on the role of metacognition in language learning and learning strategies.

• http://www.gwu.edu/~tip/meta.html

Metacognition and Reading
Examine how metacognition can be used in effective reading and read abstracts of articles on metacognition and reading.

• http://www.indiana.edu/~eric_rec/ieo/digests/d96.html

The Math Forum
Swarthmore College's website, funded in part by the National Science Foundation. Provides math resources by subject for K-12 grades, discussion of key issues in math, and Internet math units and lessons.

• http://forum.swarthmore.edu/

Psychology and Math/Science Education
Explore psychology's role in math and science education with a special focus on the cognitive and motivational processes involved.

• http://www.apa.org/ed/geary.html

Mnemonics
Information about mnemonic devices for improving memory, as well as other aspects of memory.

• http://olias.arc.nasa.gov/cognition/tutorials/index.html

Schema
Explores the concept of schema. Lists a number of print references on this concept.

• http://www.gwu.edu/~tip/schema.html