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studySMART@GCU. Note-taking: passing ‘academic modules’. NMCHstudySMART@gcal.ac.uk. studySMART@GCU. Today’s Session. Getting the most from large lectures Note-taking strategies Dealing with theories. studySMART@GCU. Lectures. How was Semester A? How useful were your notes?

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  1. studySMART@GCU Note-taking: passing ‘academic modules’ NMCHstudySMART@gcal.ac.uk

  2. studySMART@GCU Today’s Session • Getting the most from large lectures • Note-taking strategies • Dealing with theories

  3. studySMART@GCU Lectures • How was Semester A? • How useful were your notes? • How will you need to adapt for Semester B?

  4. studySMART@GCU ‘The purpose of attending lectures is to understand and record this understanding for future use in essay writing, thinking, and preparing for exams. If you are attending lectures and not thinking, you are basically wasting your time by postponing the learning of your course until a later date.’ York University, Learning Skills, Note Taking at University, http://www.yorku.ca/cdc/lsp/skillbuilding/notetaking.html#Learning NMCHstudySMART@gcal.ac.uk

  5. studySMART@GCU Listening in lectures • Key skill to get the most from lectures • Active listening • Listening v hearing

  6. studySMART@GCU Listening in lectures • Practise active listening • What are you actually thinking about? • Try to learn your lecturer’s style NMCHstudySMART@gcal.ac.uk

  7. studySMART@GCU Lecturer’s Style • Provides overview at beginning? • Reviews previous lecture? • Powerpoint? Handouts? • Repetition of important points? • Use of examples? • Voice and body language NMCHstudySMART@gcal.ac.uk

  8. studySMART@GCU Features of the lecture • Introductions and conclusions • Repetition - rephrasing of ideas • Linking expressions • Elaboration NMCHstudySMART@gcal.ac.uk

  9. studySMART@GCU Hints and Tips for Lectures • Prepare in advance – know the topic and do background reading • Arrive in plenty of time and sit near the front • Note down anything you do not understand – ask questions at the end or email the tutor • Keep asking yourself whether you are concentrating – it is really easy to drift • Do not become emotionally involved with the content. It will stop you listening to the next section • Do not dismiss a subject as uninteresting. NMCHstudySMART@gcal.ac.uk

  10. studySMART@GCU Note-taking Techniques

  11. studySMART@GCU Note-taking Systems 1 Verbatim – word for word Outline – heading and side-heading

  12. studySMART@GCU Note-taking Systems 2 3. Cornell System Picture taken from University of Maine, Cornell Note Taking Method, http://www.umfk.maine.edu/acserv/tips/notes.cfm

  13. studySMART@GCU Note-taking Systems 3 4. Mind Mapping Picture taken from Tony Buzan, Buzan World Mind Maps – Health http://www.umfk.maine.edu/acserv/tips/notes.m

  14. studySMART@GCU Hints and Tips • Start notes with subject of lecture, lecturer’s name and date. • Experiment with different note –taking techniques. • Do not try to copy down everything the lecturer says. • Leave plenty of spaces to fill in more details later. • Use headings and sub-headings – helps with structure • Read over notes after the lecture – fill in gaps with extra reading, ask lecturer. • Organise notes into ring binders with dividers . Be organised from the very start – different colours, folder and sections for different topics. • Develop your own shorthand - ↑ ↓ ≠ pa

  15. studySMART@GCU Piaget’s Cognitive Development Theory • 5 minute talk. Please take notes. NMCHstudySMART@gcal.ac.uk

  16. studySMART@GCU Piaget’s Cognitive Development Theory • Jean Piaget (1896) • Study of children • Cognitive development NMCHstudySMART@gcal.ac.uk

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  18. studySMART@GCU Piaget’s Cognitive Development Theory • Criticised for being too rigid. • Cognitive constructivism • Social constructivists (Vygotsky, Bruner) NMCHstudySMART@gcal.ac.uk

  19. How did it go? • What do your notes look like? • Did you have a strategy? • Would they be useful to you in the future? • What could you do to make them better afterwards? • What did you find difficult? What do you need to work on? NMCHstudySMART@gcal.ac.uk

  20. studySMART@GCU Was it harder? • Terminology and relationships • Abstract concepts • Historical • Can I see the relevance? NMCHstudySMART@gcal.ac.uk

  21. Cornell studySMART@GCU Cue Notes • - Jean Piaget, Swiss philospher, • natural scientist • - Work important in how we think about • children’s development • - Best known for theory of cognitive • development • - Four stages of development: • Sensorimotor, (2) Preoperations, (3) Concrete op’rtnal, (4) Formal op’rtnal • (1) Age 0 -2. Child uses senses to interact with world. • (2) Age 2 – 7. Child learns language and organisation. • (3) Age 7 – 11. Begin to think logically and able to form categories. • (4) Age 11+ - develop abstract thought and ability to present this. • Piaget criticised for being too simplistic. JP – Director of International Bureau of Education Cognitive development – main theory ‘Cognitive constructivism’- JP school of thought ‘Social constructivism’ – Vygotsky, Bruner Summary Jean Piaget developed theory of cognitive development. 4 age-related stages which a child goes through: Sensorimotor, Preoperations, Concrete, Formal. Piaget criticised for being to simplistic. Part of cognitive constructivist school. NMCHstudySMART@gcal.ac.uk

  22. Mindmap studySMART@GCU Swiss philosopher Natural scientist Director of International Bureau of Education Find quote “…only education capable of saving societies from collapse…” Sensorimotor Age 0 -2 Use senses to interact Jean Paiget Born 1896 Swiss philosopher Natural scientist Preoperations Age 2 - 7 Learns language Cognitive Development theory 4 stages of development linked to age Concrete Age 7 - 11 Develop logic Who? What? Formal Age 11+ Develop abstract thought Cognitive constructivism Social constructivism Criticised as too simplisitc School of thought about developmental behaviour School of thought about Social construction of behaviour Vygotsky Bruner

  23. studySMART@GCU What is a theory? Why should I care? • Theory helps us understand: • Society • The economy • Popular schools of thought • Why things happen • Why things are the way they are NMCHstudySMART@gcal.ac.uk

  24. studySMART@GCU What is a theory? Why should I care? • Is access to healthcare equal? • Who decides what goes into Disability legislation? • Is Nursing ‘women’s work’? • What causes an addictive personality? • What is ‘ethical’? NMCHstudySMART@gcal.ac.uk

  25. studySMART@GCU Name that theory… Look through the handout and discuss who the main theorist and theories are. NMCHstudySMART@gcal.ac.uk

  26. studySMART@GCU Vic Boyd Stephanie McKendry Academic Development Tutors NMCH NMCHstudySMART@gcal.ac.uk

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