Cognitivism in Practice

I think that there are many instructional strategies that correlate with the principles of cognitive learning. Cognitive knowledge is having a working knowledge about a certain subject not just memorizing facts. When it comes to cues, questions, and advance organizers the student must have and continue to have a working knowledge about that subject. I think that using cues and questions can help to facilitate that learning which will lead to have knowledge on the topic. Along with cue and questions students can also help to build that know by summarizing and note taking. Students must be able to add and subtract information in order to summarize a topic. When students do this they are working at a high cognitive level than just repeating what a teacher or book might have said. Have students be able to know what is important information and which information is secondary has those students working at a high level. The same goes for Note Taking. In the book "Using Technology with Classroom Instruction that Works" the author says that just repeating or writing note verbatim does not mean that the student truly knows the information. We as teachers want our students to be able to know and use the information we give them. To have cognitive knowledge about a subject students have to be able to think at a higher level.