Videos - Main Ideas

Video 1 - Main Idea

• Whats the best way to learn, using effective learning strategies like a persons beliefs on how they learn sufficiently

  • EX- things to not do are: go on your phone and create distractions every 20 minutes, skim over chapter, read the chapters day before quiz or exam, and say you can’t do it when you just need to practice and put forth effort. DONT BE OVERCONFIDENT

  • EX - things your should do are: read chapters well before test so you have days to review, put effort in and do example problems, study in quiet place no distractions and phone on scilent

Video 2 - Main Idea

• Most imprtant factor of learning and variables of learning - What you think about while studying

  • Kinds of learning - Intentional & Incidental / Shallow & Deep

  • Intent to learn has no effect, but deep processing groups learned more than the shallow strategy groups

  • Depth of procesing matters (shallow - meaningless processing like memorizing & deep- meaningful processing like application)

Video 3 - Main Idea

• Cognitive Principle for Optimizing Learning

  • How to achieve deep processing: elboration/how it relates to other things, distinctivness/how to specify it or whats different, personal experience, appropriate to retrieve and apply

  • automaticity - ability to perform a task quickly, efficiently, and without much thought

  • overlearning - practicing new skills past the priciple of mastering

Video 4 - Main Idea

• Study Strategies

  • research based strategies - question gneration/creat quesrions of material to generate examples, creat concept map using nodes and links, practice retreiveing and using the information that the teacher wants you to know and apply, take notes of key points & retreival ques & engage in the class

  • note taking allows you to learn on a deep level not shallow

  • record the lecture if possible to refer back to

Video 5 - Main Idea

• Preparation for exam and what did you do

  • Do’s - examine how you prepare, review past exams figure out what you did wrong (did you have difficulty on a specific topic or all topics), look at errors in notes and exam, talk to professor about what you can do better and open for different ways of studying, examine your own study habits

  • Basic Strategies - minimize distractions, attend class, space out study time, dont let classes slide to get caught up on others, follow instructions

  • Don’t - wait until end of semester to get help, don’t fall back on classes, don’t cram information