The Box Metaphor for Working Memory
Cindy Nebel
The Box Metaphor for Working Memory
[cover image by stocksnap on Pixabay]
by Cindy Nebel
How many boxes can you hold?
Late last year, I went to a talk by Dr. Sarah Oberle where she posed this question and I have been using a modified version of this metaphor ever since.
It is clearly a trick question. The answer, like so many things in our complex world of education is, of course, it depends. It depends on several factors that match up quite nicely with the same questions of what we can hold in.