Dr Barbara Oakley
This part of your brain can only hold approximately 4 pieces of information.
What is the working or short term memory?
Not reading the questions carefully, only answering questions in order, skipping the back of the last page, answering directly on the scantron sheet....
What are common test taking blunders?
The four houses at Hogwarts.
What are Ravenclaw, Gryfindor, Hufflepuff and Slytherin?
What is a learning objective?
Year MTU was founded.
What is 1885?
Only do this if A) you know that you are wrong, and b) you know that the change that you are making is absolutely right.
What is changing your answer on a test?
Set an appointment, prepare a list of questions, state what you know, ask for specific help, do not ask for a relecture......
What is Office Hours Etiquette?
Sport that has a pommel horse.
What is gymnastics?
Active textbook reading strategy.
What is SQ3R, or survey, question, read, recite and review.
Year that Winter Carnival started
What is 1922?
Two very different modes of thinking to aid you in retrieving a piece of information from your memory.
What are diffuse mode and focus mode?
Two hours out of class for every hour in class.
What is the recommended time to study?
Number of bones in a shark.
What is zero?
I must appear clever.
At least one of two world records set at MTU in 2006.
What is the world's biggest snowball or the world's largest snowball fight?
A method of studying that you can use to move material firmly into your long term memory.
What is spaced repitition?
The name of the phenomenon when you only remember what you cram study from the beginning and end of your study session.
What is the serial position curve?
The gland in the human body that regulates metabolism.
What is the thyroid?
Internal key to success or struggle.
What are beliefs?
First name of MTU.
What is MI Mining School?
Language that Dr Oakley learned in the military.
What is Russian?
Missed lecture notes, missed application of what you already know about the subject, missed hours of learning, wasted money, missed test cues, lower exam and course grade.....
What are the what happens when you miss a class?
The first console video game that allowed the game to be saved?
What is the Legend of Zelda?
Metacognition
What is thinking about thinking?
What are Winter Carnival snow statues?