How to avoid procrastination with large projects or assignments.
What is chunking?
100
The summary or conclusion
What is the first thing you should read in a textbook.
100
One tip for this is attending academic and cultural events.
What is a tip for finding peers who respect active learning?
100
What is the first thing you should do after attending all of your classes for the first time.
What is make a master schedule?
200
This is an efficient and widely-used strategy for taking comprehensive, highly-effective notes
What is the Cornell Method
200
A nap, pleasure readin, junk food, email, hanging out with friends
What are ways to reward yourself when each major part of a task is completed.
200
The summary or conclusion.
What is the first thing you read in a chapter?
200
Questions that help you sort out the important parts of the reasoning.
Questions that help you clarify key terms and phrases in reasoning.
Questions that help you determine hidden parts of the reasoning.
What are types of questions that help you make sense of reasoning?
200
The practice of dividing assignments into parts that are reasonable and make sense to the material covered.
What is chunking?
300
The right side of your paper.
What is where you should take your class notes?
300
A mirror, or a door.
Where you should post your goals or objectives
300
How to find the important details in the text.
What is turning headings into "how, why, what, who, and how questions"
300
This makes you a passive rather than an active learner and it increases the likelihood that you will be both confused and frustrated when you encounter conflicting points of view.
What is why blind acceptance of the truth are dangerous?
300
15 - 35 Minutes
What is the amount of time the average person can focus on a task.
400
DAILY DOUBLE
Taking notes whenever you want to accelerate your learning
Adopting a note-taking system.
Focusing on meanings more than on words
Building Bridges between ideas
Creating transitions
Interrogating you notes
What are note-taking strategies for active learners
400
Make a logical list of tasks and steps in a logical progression.
What is to help complete large projects or task, or a step needed to help create a large project or task.
400
Writing or guessing for meanings from the context or looking up the words and writing their definitions in a few words.
What is noting unfamiliar words?
400
What does the writer mean by that
What exactly do you mean by___
What's another example of that idea
What are examples of questions that help you clarify key terms and phrases in the reasoning?
400
Your room.
The place where you should never study?
500
Synthesizing the important ideas you noted in a brief but concise statement or paragraph.
What is summerizing what you read after each chunk.
500
The time assigned.
What you should write next to each step in completing a task or assignment.
500
Previewing
Underlining and marking the text systematically
Paying attention to the structure of the text
Making notes in the margins of the page
Summerizing what you read after each chunk.
What are the five key strategies for getting more out of reading?
500
Daily Double!
Reading the assignment multiple times
Writing own the conclusion and reasons
Allowing yourself enough time
Reading or experiencing something related to the assignment
Bringing up classroom tops with your friends and classmates
Reviewing Notes before Classes
Scheduling Classes Carefully
What are ways to prepare for a class where active learning takes place.
500
The half hour time to at the beginning of each week that should be on your calendar to maximize your productivity each week.