Learning and Cognition Magazine Assignment 1 (75%)

Graded assignment: Magazine article (28 February 2020) You are selected (because of your brilliant writing skills accompanied with your excellent knowledge on learning and cognition) to write an article for an educator magazine. The readers of the magazine are mostly Grade 1 to 12 teachers from inclusive schools. The theme of that month’s edition of the magazine will be: Learning and the brain. The topic you are asked to write about is the primacy-recency effect. This describes the phenomenon whereby, during a learning episode, we tend to remember best that which comes first (prime-time-1), second best that which comes last (prime-time-2), and least that which comes just past the middle (down-time). Study Sousa’s (2001) Chapter 3, Memory retention and learning and then write the article to explain the workings of the primacy-recency phenomenon clearly. In addition, you should also discuss in what ways the readers of the article can apply the primacy-recency effect in their own diverse classrooms. Additional and recent resources will be favourably considered.