The A Game
Dr Barbara Oakley
Halloween
MTU Facts
Potpourri
100
Make an appointment, prepare a list of questions, determine what you do and do not know, do not ask for a re-lecture...
What are office hours etiquette?
100
You only do this if A)you know that you are wrong, and B)you know what you are doing is absolutely right.
What is change an answer on a question?
100
Most popular Halloween candy?
What are Reese's peanut butter cups?
100
The year that MTU was founded.
What is 1885?
100
The name of Donald Duck's girlfriend.
What is Daisy Duck?
200
The name for the levels of learning ranging from the simplest to the most complex.
What is Bloom's Taxonomy?
200
When you study one subject for 8-10 hours per week, but do it by studying for 2 hours on Monday, 3 hours on Wednesday, 2 hours on Thursday, 3 hours on Saturday....
What is spaced repitition?
200
The representation of the colors orange and black at Halloween?
What are harvest and death?
200
In 1936, MTU students and local school children teamed up to bring this feature to winter carnival.
What are snow statues?
200
The four houses at Hogwart's.
What are Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff and Slytherin?
300
Not having your own lecture notes, missed application of your own background knowledge, missed hours of learning, not using what you already paid for, missed test cues....
What is not going to class?
300
Two very different types of thinking to retrieve a piece of information from your memory.
What are focused mode and diffused modes of thinking.
300
The Catholic church holiday that Halloween is linked to.
What is all saints (hallows) day?
300
The original name of Michigan Technological University.
What is the Michigan Mining School?
300
The gland in the human body that regulates metabolism.
What is the thyroid gland?
400
2 hours out of class for every hour in class.
What is the minimum number of hours that you should study every week?
400
Start hard and jump to easy.
What is a method for answering exam questions.
400
What is one of the top 3 Halloween costumes?
What are 1)witch, or 2)vampire, or 3)cat.
400
What MTU campus outside of Houghton is comprised of 4000 acres?
What is the The Ford Forestry Center?
400
The first console video game that allowed the game to be saved.
What is the Legend of Zelda?
500
The phenomenon when you only remember what you studied at the beginning and the end of your study session.
What is the serial position curve?
500
One study activity that you can use to move material into your long term memory.
What is recall? (The LASSI called it SFT or self testing)
500
What is America's favorite candy?
Skittles
500
The year that Winter Carnival first was held.
What is 1922?
500
Who are these characters?
Who are Rescue Heroes?