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In addition to time management, note-taking, etc.,
Learning aids are books, notes, charts, computers, recordings, diagrams, or any equipment, tools, and devices that aid in learning.
Learning aids enhance one’s learning abilities and help to increase one’s learning potential.
Flashcards and Quizzes
Flashcards and Quizzes
Create flashcards to study with
Quizlet: This is an online computer and phone app that creates flashcards and uses them to make practice tests (multiple choice, true/false). You can create your own flashcards or study cards created by others. It can be upgraded to a paid account with more options.
Study Blue: This also is an online computer and phone app like Quizlet. You can create your own flashcards, including images, or study cards created by others. It creates quizzes. It can be accessed on a browser or can be downloaded to your phone.
This system involves grouping your flashcards according to how well you remember the contents of each card. You spend more time studying the cards whose information you are the least familiar with.
Start by having three folders or boxes. One box is labeled “Every day.” Another box will be labeled with the day two days after you created the cards and 2 days after (ex., if you created the cards on Sunday, the label will be “Tuesday & Thursday”). The third box will be 5-7 days after you created the cards (ex., "Friday).
CREATING THE CARDS
Creating the Cards: Using the 3-Step Note-Taking Method (See Note-Taking webpage), create your cards when you study 24 hours after first coming in contact with the material. This includes attending in-person and online classes. You also can create the cards while you are reading textbooks or watching videos. Whatever works best.
Side 1 of the card: This should be a concept, term, phrase, topic heading, or question. If no questions were provided, you can create a question using one from a textbook, Quizlet, Study Blue, or Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Side 2 of the card: For a question, it will provide the answer and any other information. For a topic, make bullet points with the information about the topic.
After creating the cards, decide how well you know the material on the card. If you don't know it very well, put it into the "Every Day" box. If you understand it pretty well, put it into the box that you study every other day (ex., "Tuesday & Thursday"; Wednesday & Friday").
DAY 1
If you created the cards on Sunday (for example), go through each card in the "Every Day" box the next day (ex., Monday). If you think you understand the information, move it to the 2nd box (ex., Tuesday & Thursday).
When you find a card that you can't remember or you remember only part of the information, put this card back into the “Every day” box. You will review this card again tomorrow.
Day 2
On the 2nd day (ex., Tuesday if you created the cards on Sunday), you will review all of the cards in the “Every Day” box and the "Tuesday & Thursday" box.
First, take out all of the cards from the "Every Day" box and review them. Put the cards whose information you do not completely remember back in the “Every day” box.
Place all of the cards from the "Every day" box whose information you completely remember in a pile to put into the “Tuesday & Thursday” box when you are done.
Next, take out all of the cards in the “Tuesday & Thursday” box and review those. For every card whose information you completely remember correctly, put that card in the “Friday” box. You’ve got those cards correct twice now, so you’ll just need to review them at the end of each week.
For every card whose information you do not completely remember correctly, put that them into the “Every day” box to be reviewed tomorrow.
Place all of the cards in the pile that you got correct from the "Every day" box into the “Tuesday & Thursday” box ready for you to study on Thursday.
Day 3
On Wednesday, you’ll just be reviewing the cards that are left in the “Every day” box. Same as before, place the cards you completely remember correctly in the “Tuesday & Thursday” box, and the ones you can’t completely remember back in the “Every day” box.
Day 4
On Thursday, you’ll review all of the cards using the same study routine that you used on Tuesday. Starting with the “Every day” box then moving to the “Tuesday & Thursday” box. Cards whose information you completely remember correctly next box over (either "Tuesday & Thursday" or "Friday"), and incorrect cards go back to the “Every day” box.
Day 5
Then, on Friday, you’ll review the cards in the “Every day” box and the cards in the “Friday” box. Correct cards from the “Every day” box go to the “Tuesday & Thursday” box.
Remember, you can only move cards one box over when you get them completely correct.
Friday cards whose information you completely remember correctly stay in the Friday box. But, if you get any of the information on a card in the "Friday" box wrong, it goes back to the “Every day” box to be reviewed some more next week.
https://www.mometrix.com/academy/leitner-study-method/
College Info Geek's How to Study Effectively with Flash Cards Video
College Info Geek's How to Study Effectively with Flash Cards Video
Voice Typing
Voice Typing
Have trouble typing on a keyboard?
Google Docs has this feature. Follow the diagram to the left to turn it on.
NOTE: You will have to spend time editing the document as the programs frequently misunderstand what words it is hearing. Practice using it before you use it for an assignment so you know how much time editing will take.
Natural Reader: A professional text to speech program for a computer that converts any written text into spoken words. Can be upgraded to a paid account with more options.
(Natural Reader Quick Start Guide below)
Brainfuse: Live online homework help, skills building, writing assistance, a Study Suite, and more. Subjects include business, computer & tech, English, math, nursing, and science. Free to all Pierpont students.
Logon to your Blackboard account. In the box on the lower left Tools, click on BrainfuseHelpNow. Then click on Brainfuse Tutoring Center.
(Brainfuse User Guide for Students below)
The Owl: Purdue's online writing lab, the Owl is a resource for formatting papers in MLA and APA style.
Grammarly: Check your grammar when writing anything.
StudyStack: This allows you to create flashcard sets and use what others have already made.
HippoCampus: This contains information and multimedia content to help you study better.
HowToStudy: This helps you learn about stress management, time/task management, and effective ways to study that other students use.
Evernote: This allows you to put all of your notes, information, and research in one place. It can sync your information across computers and phones, share with others, gather web-clips, and create in one platform.
Khan Academy: This allows you to find topics across different education level and interests to help you learn more outside of the classroom.
Schooltraq: This is an online digital planner that helps you keep track of due dates.
GoConqr: This site helps you make mind maps that can help you study, memorize, and understand information.
Ease of Access: This allows you to change the appearance and function of your Windows' computer (ex., magnifier, narrator, mouse, keyboard).
Go to Google and type in Ease of Access with the year of your Windows for other tutorials.
(Ease of Access Windows 7 Guide & Windows 10 Built-In Accessibility below)
Student Success Workshops: Video workshops by experts sharing information about various topics including Academic & Career Exploration, Reading & Writing Strategies, Learning to Learn, Personal Management, Online Learning, and Success Strategies.
Also found by going to www. Pierpont.edu, and clicking on Current Students. The StudentLingo link is at the bottom of the menu on the left.
User Guides
User Guides
Ease of Access Windows 7 Guide.pdfNatural Reader Quick Start Guide.pdfQuizlet_User_Guide.pdfWindows 10 Built-In Accessibility - Quick Start Guide.pdfGoogle Sites
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