Remember

At the base of Bloom’s Taxonomy, you will see “REMEMBER”!

This fundamental building block of cognition is where the taxonomy begins.  Before learners can advance up the hierarchy of understanding and applying a concept, they must first remember it.  In this stage, persons learn to remember information such as reciting lists, recognizing information, recalling steps in a process and identify strategies to them retain that information.

Did you ever stop to think that remembering actually makes you happy? Really?  Yes!  Aren’t you happy when you remember where you parked your car in that big parking lot, where you left your keys, a friend’s birthday, someone’s name, how to do that math problem?  When we remember, we are recalling or retrieving previously learned information. 

There are a variety of techniques that can be used to help us remember.  The basic and most simplistic techniques are associating and rehearsing.  In association, we connect the item to remember with a cue.  With rehearsal, we practice that information over and over.  If you are remembering a list, you might say it out loud over and over or write the list many times until you have remembered it.

There are a variety of techniques that learners can engage to help them remember such as:

Mnemonics – a visual way of remembering.  Check out this link for some mnemonic techniques:

Here are a few more mnemonic techniques…

The Loci Method – Associate objects with familiar locations.

The Peg System – Create and memorize a peg list.  Then associate those words with the list of objects you need to memorize.

The Story Method – Create a story around the sequence of items

And here’s another technique found on youtube:

Find a strategy that you want to test out and the next time you are tasked with remembering information, try it out!