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Week 3 – Learning How to Learn: Space Out Practice & Leverage Context
Learning How to Learn
To address the diverse STEM disciplines we have in this class , let’s try to watch some researched-based videos about learning how to learn. I want you to learn some transferable skills that can apply to your other classes or future career in addition to learning chemistry.
Initial Post
- Watch PEN Principle #4: Spacing-Out Practice Enhances Memory (4:41)
- Watch PEN Principle #5: Leverage Context According to Outcome (4:33)
- Create a weekly schedule
- Find a weekly schedule template that works for you. You may use my sample weekly schedule (Links to an external site.).
- Add items that are already scheduled for the week, including classes, appointments, and work.
- Add activities that need to be done that week but don’t have a set time. For example, homework assignments and reviews. Try to spread these activities across the week so that they are not all concentrated on already busy days.
- Add the activities that make life worthwhile, such as spending time with friends, or going to the gym.
- Highlight the most important things so you can find them immediately. Color code item by type, e.g. classes are purple, work is blue.
- Especially the day(s) and time(s) that you will be doing ALEKS, Lab Assignments, and Discussion.
Respond to this discussion prompt by Tuesday 11:59 pm. Select the Reply box and write a paragraph for each of the following questions:
- What is spacing-out practice and what’s leverage context? How does each strategy work?
- How are you going to implement these two strategies in your study for the next two weeks. We will go back and write a self-reflection later.
- Upload your weekly schedule
Reply
By Friday night at 11:59 pm, please reply to at least two of our classmates’ posts with ideas or suggestions as feedback by doing one of the following:
- Provide specific feedback about your classmates’ plans to implement the techniques in this discussion.
- Ask a probing or clarifying question in response to one (or more) of your colleagues’ posts, or
- Describe a different technique that you have used.