Learning Frameworks Exam 1

Tips for procrastination

1. Engage in self reflection 2. Just get started 3. Move 4. Give it 20 minutes 5. Reframe your expectations 6. Start small 7. Be realistic 8. Trick yourself 9. Use a project plan

Tips for minimizing distractions

1. Find strength in numbers 2. Use the off switch 3. Block out other sources of distraction

Active Learning Strategies

1. Get involved 2. Look for connections 3. Seek applications for your new knowledge

Steps to goal setting

1. Identify a goal 2. Make your goal SMART 3. Create and action plan 4. List barriers and solutions 5. Act and evaluate outcomes

Decision making steps

1. Identify the decision to be made 2. Know yourself 3. Identify your options 4. Gather info about each option 5 Evaluate your option 6. Select the best option 7. Develop and implement an action plan 8. Evaluate the outcomes of your decision

Metacognition strategies

1. Plan and organize 2. Monitor your progress 3. Evaluate your results and make adjustments

4 Steps to effective time management

1. Track your time 2. Identify your priorities 3. Build your schedule 4. Use tools to track your progress

Positive Psychology

A branch of psychology that focuses on people's strengths rather than on their weaknesses and that views weaknesses as growth opportunities.

Deducing

Arriving at a conclusion using reason and logic. EX: YOu notice that all your friends who take time to study for exams get better grades than those who don't study. You deduce that you can improve your grades if you study more.

Synthesizing

Combining facts into a larger understanding of a concept. EX: As a marketing assistant, you review and synthesize comments from a focus group that has been assembles to examine a new product. Participants' comments suggest that the product name is intriguing but that it doesn't communicate the product's key benefits clearly.

Higher level thinking skills (definitions and examples)

Comparing and contrasting, deducing, synthesizing, evaluating, and prioritizing

Prioritizing

Determining the order of importance of tasks. EX: YOur manager has just given you several new responsibilites. You prioritize those that directly support an important goal your manager has set for the team increasing sales.

Ways to organize your documents

Digital: 1. Use computer 2. Use the cloud Paper: 1. Hard copy syllabus 2. Filing cabinet or tote 3. BInders and folders File and folder labels: 1. Use names that are consistent and easy to decode 2. Create "In progress" and "Complete" folders File Backup: 1. External hard drive or hard drive

Self-efficacy

Experience success, Observe others who are successful, Seek support and encouragement, turn stress into a motivator

Understand

Explain ideas or concepts in your own words and organize them into meaningful groups. EX: your communications class, you need to learn two facts; Facebook and the CEO. Categorize Facebook into socal media.

Relevance

Find something interesting in every class, connect coursework to your long-term goals, focuse on practical benefits, build transferable skills, focus on a love of learning

Using higher level thinking

Gather and evaluate information, keep and open mind, apply what you've learned, review your outcomes

Create

Generate novel solutions to problems or new ways of understaning existing concepts. EX: an essay question might ask you to create a new strategy to combat global terrorism based on your knowledge of successful and failed policies in years past.

Recruiting help

Getting help is a form of taking personal responsibility: when you identify what challenges you face, what resources exist, and how to use them, you take charge of your own success.

Differences from high school to college

High School your time and schedule was structured by others, you were told what to learn and often how to learn it. Learning was teacher-focused, you needed your parents' permission to participate in extracurricular activities, you could count on parents and teachers to remind you of your responsibilities and to give regular guidance in setting priorities, you attended classes five days a week and proceeded from one to another,most of your classes were determined by school counselors, students are not responsible for knowing what is required to graduate or for tracking their own progress. College you must manage your time and choose how to spend it, you must figure out what to learn and how to learn it. Learning is student-focused, you must choose whether to participate in co-curricular activities, and which which fit best with your goals, you must set your own priorities and take responsibility for achieving them, you often have hours between classes and may not attend classes every day. Much of your work will happen outside of class time, you must choose which to take in consultation with faculty and acedemic advisors. Your schedule may look easier than it actually is, students are expected to select their own majors and/or minors and are expected to learn the graduation requirements for their programs of study

Attitude

Identify something positive resulting from the work you're doing, if possible, take at least one course in your intended major each term, think and speak positively

Comparing and contrasting

Identifying similarities and differences between two or more concepts. EX: You're thinking of changing smartphone carriers, so you compare and contrast data plans and other terms offered by several providers to see which offers the best deal.

Tim Urban's TED Talk Inside the Mind of a Master Procrastinator

Instant gratification monkey, rational decision maker, panic monster, *easy and fun

College instructor expectations from students

Instructors will expect you to figure out how and what to study, to determine how to apply what you've learned to new situations, and to think carefully about concepts you might have just accepted as fact in high school

Evaluating

Judging the authenticity or soundness of an argument. EX: For a journalism class assignment, you read an article arguing against vaccinating children and adults against influenza because the vaccine can have side effects and doesn't guarantee immunity. You evaluate the argument as weak because the author doesn't address the fact that vaccination significantly lowers hospitilization rates for the flu.

Steps to recruiting help

Know what resources exist, know which resources you need, use available resources

Remember

Learn and recall a set of facts. EX: The American Revolution ended in 1783

Top reasons people procrastinate

Low motivation, perfectionism, feeling overwhelmed

Bloom's Taxonomy

Remember, understand, apply, analyze, evaluate, create

3 Key components of motivation

Self-efficacy, Relevance, and Attitude

Four types of positive psychology

Self-efficacy, Resilience, Hope, and Personal responsibility

Analyze

Separate a concept into its parts and learn how they relate to one another. EX: In a modern histroy course, you may analyze how conflict in the Middle East influenced the foreign and domestic policies of President Bush.

SMART goals

Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-limited

Largest factor that influences student's grades

TIme management

Taking Personal Responsibility for your success

Taking charge of defining your goals, creating plans for accomplishing them, and seeking out resources that can help you achieve them.

Critical Thinking

The ability to consider information in a thoughtful way, adopt logical and rational thinking skills, and apply these skills in your classes and your life.

Tools to track your progress on projects and assignments

To-do List and project plan

Evaluate

Use ideas or concepts to formulate or justify a position or argument. EX: to develop a research question for a pyschology class, you review recent findings on altruism. After analyzing your sources and confirming their quality, you're confident in the accuracy of what you've learned.

Apply

Use your knowledge and understanding to solve problems. EX: as a manager you are expected to juggle multiple projects and employees.

Growth Mindset

believe they can change aspects of their lives and further develop or improve their talents, skills, and abilities

Fixed Mindset

believe they can't improve their talents, skills and abilities and tend to see themselves as victims of circumstance which saps their motivation completely

internal v. external

internal: those within ourselves external: those outside ourselves

Types of motivation: intrinsic and extrinsic

intrinsic: motivation that stems from your inner desire to achieve a specific outcome (studying because you enjoy the feeling of sucess) extrinsic: motivation that derives from forces external to you, such as an expected reward or a negative outcome that you want to avoid (studying to maintain a 3.0 GPA)

Comparisons between high school and college graduates

more engaged in their communities, lead healthier lifestyles, participate more actively in their children's education, earn higher salaries, are more likely to have jobs

stable v. transient

stable: stay the same transient: can change

Grit

talent x effort=skill skill x effort=achievement 1. Develop a fascination 2. Daily improvement 3. Greater purpose 4. Develop a growth mindset

Attribution Theory

the theory about how people use information to explain the events that occur in their lives (generally attribute causes internal and transient)

Metacognition

thinking about how you think and learn

6 journalist questions

who, what, when, where, why, and how. Lower-level: first four because they focus on facts and information Higher-level: How? Why? because they require you to connect and work with those basic facts