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Unit 10: SDEV101. Study Skills. Case Study of Colleen. How do you think Colleen feels? How could this happen to Colleen? What is Colleen’s Inner Critic saying? What is Colleen’s Inner Defender saying? If Colleen were your friend, what advice would you give her?. How Humans Learn.
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Unit 10: SDEV101 Study Skills
Case Study of Colleen • How do you think Colleen feels? • How could this happen to Colleen? • What is Colleen’s Inner Critic saying? • What is Colleen’s Inner Defender saying? • If Colleen were your friend, what advice would you give her?
How Humans Learn Three Keys to Deep Learning: Prior Learning Quality of processing Quantity of processing
Importance of Prior Learning • Learning experts (Bransford and Johnson, 1972) presented college students with this passage to read • Read the passage and see how much you can remember
Importance of Prior Learning • Read the passage again, this time keep the title “Washing Clothes” in mind • Does passage make more sense? • Anytime readers gain information about a reading AND relate the information to something they already know, they are better able to understand the incoming information • Same effect when students read assigned material BEFORE taking lecture notes.
Quality of Processing • Much of what you’ll be asked to learn in college is too complex for mere memorization • Bloom’s taxonomy – Examples of Questions
Quantity of Processing • You have four hours this weekend to review for your psychology exam. Is it better to do it all in one 4-hour session, or divide it up into four separate 1-hour sessions? • The average person getting distributed training remembered better than about 67 percent of the people getting massed training. (www.smart-kit.com)
Favorite Teachers • Think of your favorite teacher of all time and make list of what you specifically liked about his/her teaching (5 min) • Think of your least favorite teacher of all time and make list of what you specifically disliked about his/her teaching (5 min)
Favorite Teachers (cont) • Now, imagine that you are taking a class with an instructor who exhibits some or all of what you did not like. Being Creators, come up with a third list of what you could do to learn the subject well and get a good grade in the course, despite the instructor. (10 min)