Cognitive Load with Layers of Multilingual Complexity
Cognitive Load with Layers of Multilingual Complexity By Shawn Perry Following our PD session which we unpacked about Cognitive Load, I thought it would be a great investigative activity for Grade 3 students to do from a time-keeping point of view (for our current UOI) , and as a math activity. We used the color-coded words on the white board and had the students try to process and read them as quickly as they could. Without giving students a lot of instruction, I asked them to read the words, and they took turns reading them. Naturally, they read the words not the color. Most students read a single row of words in about 2 seconds . We extrapolated that it would take about 12 seconds to read all 6 rows, if they kept reading at the same pace. For the next step the students were asked to “read the colors”. The students were surprised that they took quite a bit longer to read the same row. The average was about 6...