Web Activity 3

After looking at the Baddeley & Hitch model of working memory, I begin to think of the model similar to that of a cartoon. Each character had a distinctive role that he or she plays. The visuospatial sketchpad is used to interact with those item processed through the eyes (visually). On the other hand the phonological loop deal with sound and deals with the auditory memory. The Episodic buffer has very important role in that its responsibility is to facilitate the linking of information across domains. I decided to depict the central executive as the brain. The central executive part of the system is responsible for controlling mental and cognitive processing which takes place within the brain. In the image you can see that the brain is very frustrated and realized that he must work with both the visuospatial sketchpad as well as the phonological loop in order to effectively get anything done. While looking at the image you can see that the episodic buffer (depicted as the link peeking out of the skull is trying to get both the visualspatial sketch pad and the phonological loop to come back to the learner. As we can see, the scene seems chaotic and the learner’s face displays confusion and seems a bit overwhelmed. All in all it takes all parts of the information process working together in order of meaningful learning to occur.

Image Sources:

http://jaggedsmile.wordpress.com/2008/05/06/tis-better-to-have-loved-and-lost-your-mind/

http://donthaveanick.blogspot.com/2009_06_01_archive.html

http://www.bing.com/search?q=cartoon%20eyes

http://www.shutterstock.com/cat.mhtml?safesearch=1&search_type=similar&similar_photo_id=25851160