Sora Vocab
A website where you can see your current levels in all of your Skills.
What is Sora Home? or (home.soraschools.com)
What is Massed Practice?
How many times do we check our phones?
What is important to us and what we spend our time and energy doing.
What are personal values?
This is the channel name of the "casual" chat on Sora's Discord.
What is #casual-chips?
A goal you have to complete something by a certain date, usually while working with a Guide.
What are Learning Goals?
When you put learning in your own words, especially when using analogies to things you already know.
What is Elaboration?
When taking Smart Notes, this is a type of note you take when you write something down in your own words.
What is a Permanent Note?
The form of motivation that is strongly correlated with mental health problems like depression and anxiety.
Extrinsic Motivation
The average 8-year old does this 41 times a day, and the average 44-year old does this 6 times a day.
What is ask questions?
Every Skill has 4 of these which indicate your level of knowledge.
What are Stars or Levels?
A note-taking system devised by famed sociologist, Niklas Luhmann.
What is Zettelkasten or the slip-box technique?
Working for a chunk of time (maybe 45 minutes) followed by a short break (maybe 10 minutes).
What is the Pomodoro technique?
The degree to which someone feels control over their own life.
What is the Locus of Control?
Mindfulness, meditation, journaling, asking questions, summarizing, and making a scrapbook, are all ways someone can do this.
What is Reflection?
The group of students who make big decisions for the school and decide on disciplinary actions.
What is The Senate?
Thinking about one's own thinking.
What is Metacognition?
This is the term for trying to do many things at once, which can cause distractions and is not very effective for learning.
What is Multi-Tasking?
Another word for self-reflection, this is a term for looking inward to examine one's own mental and emotional processes.
This type of question prompts or encourages the desired answer.
What is a Leading Question?
The number indicates how many stars you need to gain outside of expeditions every month.
What is Individual Cycle Pace?
The common, false assumption that you know something better than you actually do.
What is the "Illusion of Knowledge"?
In the video we watched on focus and multi-tasking, this is what nearly everybody missed when focusing on the number of basketball passes.
What is a gorilla?
This mindset is a belief that your skills, abilities, and intelligence improves over time as you overcome difficult challenges.
What is Growth Mindset?
This Spirit Week activity is happening tomorrow.
What is the School Carnival?