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You Must Remember This: Using the Science of Memory to Support Learning in a Wired World
Wednesday, April 10 @ 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm
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Today’s faculty tend to steer clear of memory and memorization in their classrooms, preferring to focus on higher-level thinking skills. But do these goals have to be mutually exclusive?
New research suggests that teachers really can have it both ways, using research-based techniques to strengthen both what students know and their ability to use that knowledge. Many of these approaches fit particularly well with educational technologies, as well as with newly available AI tools.
Join us for an interactive presentation which invites teachers to look at memory in a new light, highlighting technologies and techniques that help students build a solid base of knowledge efficiently, quickly, and with a side order of fun. Concepts presented will draw on the presenter’s book Remembering and Forgetting in the Age of Technology: Teaching, Learning, and the Science of Memory in a Wired World (West Virginia University Press, 2022).
This event is co-sponsored by the College Teaching and Learning Science Graduate Program and the Faculty Development Center.
UMBC and the Office of Professional Programs are committed to inclusivity and accessibility. Please note that automated closed captioning for virtual events is available via Webex Assistant through UMBC’s Webex Meetings platform.
Speaker Bio
Michelle Miller, Ph.D.
Dr. Michelle Miller is the author of Minds Online: Teaching Effectively with Technology (Harvard University Press, 2014), Remembering and Forgetting in the Age of Technology: Teaching, Learning, and the Science of Memory in a Wired World (West Virginia University Press, 2022), and a new book forthcoming in Fall 2024, A Teacher’s Guide to Learning Student Names: Why You Should, Why It’s Hard, How You Can (University of Oklahoma Press).
Dr. Miller is a Professor of Psychological Sciences and President’s Distinguished Teaching Fellow at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona. She completed her Ph.D. in cognitive psychology and behavioral neuroscience at the University of California, Los Angeles, and currently writes, teaches, and speaks about maximizing learning in today’s technology-saturated and rapidly-changing world.
