Building Learning Structures Inside the Head

In part 2 of Payne's Poverty Series, I found myself really liking her idea that, "Conceptual frameworks are the part of the structure that stores and retrieves data. In the house, it is analogous to the rooms. In most houses, rooms are identified by function-the bedroom, the living room, the kitchen, the bathroom, etc" (3). She explains the house analogy in relation to all of the learning structures, and with this one she talks about categorizing information as another way to help yourself remember things, just as we typically think of each room in a house having its specific purpose.
I really liked her use of a house to talk about these learning structures because I thought it was an effective analogy that made a complicated idea about learning easier for me to grasp. I personally tend to categorize everything in life obsessively so that I can clear my head for the next thing that comes my way, and I was glad to read her suggestion that this is an effective tool to teach students. There were a lot of organizational strategies she set forth that didn't make much sense to me but this one seemed logical and simple enough that it could actually be taught and used effectively.