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The process of learning: Sense and sensibility (part 4)

Curriculum Pedagogy
Our series on how students learn continues with advice on creating a positive learning environment in your classroom in order to appeal to pupils’ iconic, echoic and haptic memories – and thus make learning stick. Matt Bromley explains

In this series of articles I’m exploring the process of learning which, I have argued, is the interaction between our sensory memory and our long-term memory.

Our sensory memory, I said, is made up of: what we see (this is called our iconic memory), what we hear (this is called our echoic memory), and what we touch (our haptic memory).

Our long-term memory, meanwhile, is where new information is stored and from which it can be recalled later when needed, but we cannot directly access the information stored in our long-term memory – instead, this interaction between our sensory memory and our long-term memory occurs in the working memory.

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