 Be a little impromptu video just to help teachers during the revision period I plan for the month of May to go through lots of different ideas here to reduce workload and increase your impact So sharing lots of my mark plan teach one-minute summaries with you and over the month ahead But this short video I want to just share some of the things that I've been researching For my guide to memory research I'm having a lot of schools and teachers ask me for help with how we learn, you know The memory part of what we do in our classrooms So here's a one-minute summary of the research that I've put together in my latest book and This screenshot here coming through Let me just swap those slides Oops want a bit too far. So those are the kind of headlines from you know just touching the the tip of the surface suppose an overview of brain history and the evolution of cognitive neuroscience cognitive psychology and The world of cognitive science which many teachers are interested in But this is what I want to talk to you about literally in a couple of minutes So bear with me and I want to talk to you about how memory is formed Anatomically now I'm not an expert, but I've been spending several years digging into this In closer detail. So let me just and go through one step at a time Approximately, you know, depending on how many glasses of wine you have we've the adult brains got 86 billion neurons give or take one or two. I believe that's the equivalent of The number of stars in our galaxy and so for context here If you count to 1 million it take you 11 and a half days if you count to 1 billion Not that we'd have any time to be able to do this it would take you 31 year 31 years So just to try and get a kind of sense of what 1 billion looks like We have 86 billion neurons our neurons look like this And so we've seen this in some of our biology lessons at school or in adults when we do our final reading Further reading I should say and but anatomically when we form a new connection So either you're watching this for the first time if you revisit the material you'll strengthen your connections So you form a neural connection and some of this is familiar to you and you're retrieving it Then we're exploring your long-term memory things. I say illicit Connections in your schema and this is how we bring Bring knowledge together and form New connections. So we've got all these kind of technical parts Then drives nucleus the myelin sheath and so on and so forth dendrites Are those where the impulses are received from your neuro? So from the chemical signals and met a few biology teachers on my travels as a result of sharing this the myelin sheath The stronger the sis the fatty substance along the axon shaft Allows the transmitters to travel more Reliably and I'm very conscious of the things language that I might use here in case I'm Technically Not a hundred percent accurate. So I share this with disclaimers and a bit of caution I'm just a teacher interested in how we learn I've explored a bit of brain history But the anatomy of the brain and trying to see how I can shape the way that I teach even better our axons So these Axon Hilux they carry the signals away the different tech so to other neurons to other dendrites so they kind of I'm gonna say tickle together. That's not a very technical word So the end is make synaptic connections now if I move over to another graphic shortly, you'll see they don't actually connect there is a kind of Transmitter of information between two neurons so that You know if we put a microscope over they form what's called a synaptic cleft with a it's a bit like a charge over a magnet So the myelin sheath as I mentioned Most of it happens before birth Which is why I really believe haven't spent my whole life as a secondary classroom teacher that early years is The most critical parts of our education process Shouldn't take me 30 years to work that one out, but it has and actually I look at all our young children in our nurseries and How we could do a bit more here to help shape those critical parts of Myelination formation I suppose so a fatty substance Insulating the axon to stop the signal from degrading our synapses So these are the the actual connections. I didn't know the word synapses derived from the Greek language to form a connection So there you might have learned something new Neuroplasticity so the stronger the connection the stronger the signal etc. This is what neuroplasticity is and Then here's the little graphic I've got for you here. So that kind of floating between two Physical neurons as this gap in the middle where the charge Connects to one another so if you think about two connected neurons So if I go back to you know, how long does it take you to count to one billion if you retain this information? You know when we think about it as an analogy if we walk through a woodland When a path might be challenging, you know, that kind of well trodden path versus going over some new vegetation When we walk over it time and time again Then the path starts to form and that's how we can retrieve information regularly or we can Go through the path once again and inform even further connection So think the next time you go in your dog walk if you go off the well trodden path to a new path The more times you create that connection the more familiar you become with this new route So that's how we elicit further schema. So, you know, I think tomato ketchup You all know what tomato ketchup is you've tasted you can describe it You can elicit further information. So red tomatoes all sorts of things But if you have no schema Corpus linguistics, whatever it might be if you have nothing to draw upon We really need to get back to the foundations of how we form this knowledge in the first place Anyway, I think that's enough for now. There's lots more of this to come But I just thought I'd do a little impromptu video as ever Sharing some ideas from guide to memory. So there's lots more in there get in touch if you need any help I'm also going to start to share loads of little workload snippets to help people in Mark Plantage If you need any help, you know where I am. I hope you well and bye for now