The human brain weighs an average of 3 pounds and 15 centimeters in length. But is amazing how the brain store information, from short-term to long term memories that we experience in the past and the present. The brain holds an amazingly huge amount of information that we can use in our everyday life. The question is, how fast do we get to store the information into our memory? Let me take it to the education level. Learning is a different story. It is complex, systematic, and requires strategy in order to have the information learned be retained in a long-term basis.

In the classroom setting, is it vital that students are given diversified activities that would enhance their higher-order thinking skills such as problem-solving, creative thinking, focused attention and divided attention (multi-tasking), etc. These mental activities are important for a quality learning.

It is not a secret that tertiary level students have been bombarded with a lot of reading materials, subject requirements, term papers, deadlines, etc. These are contributing factors of student’s burn-out as it overwhelms the short-term memory. Thus, it affects how the learning process goes. Eventually, quality learning is at stake. It is crucial that educators should provide information and teaching strategies in a systematic way or step by step. This way, the retention of information is high. Our brain processes the information slowly yet surely. Learning materials such audio and visual aid the learning better. Each student is unique, imbibed with learning strategy that is effective for them. Some students are visual learners, some are auditory, and some are kinesthetic. These learning materials should be integrated in the discussion. Another way of increasing the learning memory of students is to do recapitulation of the essential information after the discussion. This will refresh their memory as the recency effect theory implies on its importance. 

Human brain can handle data of the past and of the present. It is just a matter of how we put all this information into our memory in a way that it does not exhaust the host, yet the information is retained, and the learning is high. Students are human. We cannot just encode the information directly from the system just like what people do to the robots. Yes, human brains can hold so much information but, it has to have a process and style. Unless, people wanted to educate robots at school then the process might be easy.