Information Retention, Study & Collaborative Learning Strategies

Walk in song of the week: That's Not My Name, Presidents

Topic

• CRI Skill: Learning Techniques

  • Description

    • Study, reading, note-taking, memory, test-taking, and time-management strategies.

  • Aspects

    • General Study Strategies - different kinds of learning strategies that change based on what is being studied.

      • Study at a time of day when most focused

      • Study in a place free of distractions

      • Review all information including notes, readings, and homework

      • Break down long assignments into shorter sections to help manage the work

    • Information Retention Strategies - for remembering important information.

      • Rewrite what you’re trying to learn, combining information from notes, assignments, and the textbook

      • Identify what needs to be memorized for courses

      • Make rhymes to remember things easier

      • Look for patterns or other ways to break material into groups of three to four familiar elements

      • Have tricks to recall memorized information

      • Quiz yourself to test remembering

  • *Next Steps*

    • Discuss the material with a group of students from the same course

    • Study with others outside of class

    • Study with serious students who can help you do better

    • Listen to others' points of view and ideas

Lesson

• Lesson question review

• How good is your memory?

  • Common Cents

  • False Memories

    • Word List zzzzz

    • Brain Games clip - To Remember or Not to Remember (3:01)

  • Eyewitness Test

    • Part 1

    • Part 2

    • Result

  • Card Trick

  • Brain Games Double Dutch

• Strategies

  • Look for patterns or other ways to break material into groups of three to four familiar elements

    • Organizing

      • Word List

    • Chunking

      • Brain Games clip - Chunking

  • Make rhymes to remember things easier

    • Poems and Rhymes

  • Tricks (Mnemonics)

    • Acronyms: like GPA and SCUBA

    • Acrostics: like Never Eat Soggy Waffles

    • Story / Visualization

      • Brain Games clip - list of 5 words

      • Linking and Chaining - How Stuff Works

      • Story System Strategies - How Stuff Works

    • The Method of Loci / Memory Palace

      • Continents

  • Quiz yourself:

    • Anki (desktop)

      • AnkiDroid (Android)

      • AnkiMobile (iOS)

  • Recognition

    • Names and faces

      • Game

      • Visualize (preferably something face related) - Shirley = Shirley temple

      • Connect - Fred likes to fish

      • Word Play - Jim from Jersey

Additional Resources

• How to triple your memory by using this trick | Ricardo Lieuw On | TEDxHaarlem

• How to Improve Your Memory While Studying

• Your Bleeped Up Brain - Memory (History Channel) card trick (0:00 - 4:30 or 0:00 - 1:01 & 2:45-3:30)

• Student Names

• Good Read: Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow (2013)

  • Animated Book Review

• For Parents / Teachers

  • Memory Activities for Kids

• Brain Games Don't Improve Memory or Cognition

• Finish Strong Videos - Memory and Studying