Learning How to Learn includes all of the following
areas.
- Ways of organizing information
- Ways of comprehending information / Finding the Important Information
- Ways of studying information
- Ways of recalling information
- Ways of finding information
- Ways of thinking about information
Ways of organizing information may include:
- By topic
- By concept
- By theme
- By unit
- By time
- By location
- By importance
Strategies for Organizing Information
- Outlining
- Note-taking
- Summarizing
- Highlighting
- Note Cards
- Marginal Notes
- Graphic Displays/Maps
- Time lines
Ways of Comprehending Information
By connecting to background
By association
By analogy
By example
By relationship
By visualizing—recognizing patterns
By using context
By using prediction
Finding Important Information in Text
- Use of Cue and Clues
- By the organization and structure of the material.
- By using locator questions
Strategies for Comprehension
- Reading Strategies SQR4
- Cognitive maps
- Modeling Others
- Discussion
- Using optimal Learning Style
- Self-Questioning
- Brainstorming
Ways of Studying Information.
- Daily review/rehearsal/practice
- Organize the information
- Practice tests / Test reviews
- Summarizing
- Writing
- Saying aloud
- Peer questioning
- Proper time of day
- Proper location
Ways of Recalling Information.
- Semantic memory/ words--associations, triggers
- Episodic memory/location/ stories
- Procedural memory/muscle
- Automatic memory/conditioned response
- Emotional memory--most powerful--connects with many parts of our
backgrounds
Strategies for Recalling Information
- Visualize the information--images, patterns
- Rehearsal/ practice/review
- Graphic organizers
- Explain to others/peer teaching
- Summarize
- Mnemonic devices
- Music/songs
- Emotional significance
- Make it stand out/special/ unique
- Go to the location/retrace your steps
- Use a systematic approach to learning and studying/ procedural memory
- Use 3X5 cards with practice
Ways of Finding Information.
- Using search engines
- Using the library
- Ask others/peers/faculty
- Source books
Ways of Thinking about Information.
- Inference/interpretation
- Application--how to use it
- Synthesis--combining
- Analysis-- finding its parts
- Evaluation--judging based on standards
- Systems thinking
- Creative thinking
- Problem solving
Strategies for Thinking about Information
- Modeling Others
- Looking for patterns
- Problem solving approaches
- Fix up strategies
- Metacognitive strategies
- Back burner thinking
- Questioning approaches
- Out of the box thinking
- Comparing and Contrasting
- Deductively-- general to the specific--top-down thinking
- Lateral thinking (deBono, 1970) many possible ways to look at things
- Inductively--specific to the general--bottom up thinking
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