Taking Lecture Notes

Week 7 : Taking Lecture Notes

Wednesday / 26^th of July 2017 / Dewan Kuliah Al-Farabi UiTM Pahang Jengka Campus

So..in this week, students should know how to :

1) Taking lectures notes

2) Effective note-taking systems

Taking Lectures Notes

1) Taking down ideas from lectures and leading in our own words

2) we must know the main idea

3) If we meet some lectures that not allow their student to write notes while they are talking?

-we have to courage and we must ask for permission to take notes

Why we have to take notes??

1) Helps us to pay attention in class

2) Helps us study for quiz, tests  or final exam

3) Help us improve our memory

4) Help us ownership of ideas(like in a group assignment, changing the given ideas)

5) Help us engage our serves(focus our senses like eyes, hand and ears)

6) Help us organize and process data and information

7) Helps the lecture test students on how well to captured given information

How do we have to take notes?

1) Date and label notes

2) Give ourselves space to write

3) Use abbreviations and symbols

4) Use an outline to show : main ideas, supports ang example

5) Use our own language

Why review notes???? :

Why ‘recapture’ notes after class ?

1) Frees us up to write in quick, shorthand during class

2) An excellent test-prep strategy for reinforcing information

3) Better that re-copying, this time we’re digesting and rephrasing

4) Great for kinesthetic learners

5) Can catch? S, gaps, look-up words

6) Prompts higher-level questions

7) Save hours of studying and review the days before

As we study the review notes, our instructor give us activity 1 : we play the WHISPER GAMES. It was so fun and the result is at the back, the first sentences seem to change. It is because some people forgot because we just use our ears and NOT TAKING NOTES. So, takes notes is important guys.. :D

Introductory Questions : what materials do we need

Before the class

1) Review the notes from the day before (we will know what we will learn)

2) Review our reading assignment (make sure we have paper,text,pens,pencils and handout)

3) Write the date at the top of the paper for notes

4) Leaves space between the lines so that we can add information later

How do we prepare for a class

1) Do pre-reading and homework

2) Review syllabus

3) Preview previous notes

4) Look up keywords prior to class

5) Plan on listening 80% at the time

6) Write the date at the top of our paper for notes

7) Leave space

How do we review after a class

1) Review notes along with the book

2) Create our own examples

3) Discuss and compare notes with others

4) Re-write notes

5) Practice those skills you wish to develop

6) Ask professor for the clarification

Physical factors

- sit near the front and center :

1) Better vision

2) Better hearing

3) Avoid distractions (doorways, window glare, etc)

4) Peers

-while taking notes

1) Be an aggressive not a passive listener

2) Ask question and discuss if its permitted

3) If jot questions, write in notes and seek out the meaning

-mood of lecturer

1) Observation is the KEY (professional students)

2) The Key to note as we observe our instructor

-be alert to repetition (when the instructor repeats a specific point,make a note of it)

-watch the board or overheard projector (if the instructor writes something down, the material’s is important)

-notice the instructor’s interest level (if the instructor is excited about something, it is likely to be on an exam)

-let go of judgments about lecture styles (don’t let our attitude about an instructor’s style get in the way of our education)

What happens when the instructor isn’t too interesting????

-when we notice our attention slipping, pay attention to the ACT of writing

-Ask question even the questions maybe ‘dumb’ on the mind of several classmates

-volunteer demonstration and discussion

Conts

Keen observes focus their attention on the details and make the most of their time during lectures by preparing and reviewing BEFORE THE LECTURE EVEN STARTS!

-complete outside assignments, the more familiar we are with a subject, the easier it will be to understand in class

-bring the right materials to the lecture

Effective note-taking system

cornell method

-this note method is so good because of the summary is very useful for the exam

Two column method

Name  : Date   :
Keyword	Description

Outlining - no space and no date

 Mapping method

 Sentences method

Remember the SQ4R

! Survey- overview, quickly scan

! Question - establish, a purpose

! Read- to answer questions

! Rite - take notes

! Review -at the short time

! Recite- answer to questions with the book closed

So...this week is the last one...I having so much fun in learning this ued102 subject :)..

its make me easier to study especially at UiTM..this subject is extremely good...All information in this blog, I take from the lecture's notes and of course some of google search.. Thank you..Im Nur Ain bt Sulaime from UED102 1f from course AS120 make this ued102's assignment with all my heart..hehe..TQ :D

Memory Learning & Improving concentration

Week 6 : Memory Learning & Improving concentration

Wednesday / 19^th of July 2017 / Al-Biruni 1 UiTM Pahang Jengka Campus

In this week, we must know :

1) Understanding memory process

2) Memory strategies

3) Understanding concentration

4) Strategies for improving concentration

5) Reading / study system (SQ3R)

Who are we?…Know ourself..

-we must know our creator,love our creator and find love from our creator

-as a human, we must be a grateful because human are the most brilliant creature and talkative person

-besides of that, human also like to judge, know the differences of good and bad,know what true and false and more.

-According to Zig Ziglar, if we help people…we can get what we want

-so the meaning is, as a muslim, if we help people, Allah will help us with many of ways and to me, it is so fair. :)

That just `Muqaddimah’ or starter or…so..lets start our topics in this sixth week…. :)

 So..my instructor tell us to count how many the letter of F in this sentences..in our heart..not using our mouth..

So…after count it..I just weird why did us have different answer..mine is 6…my friend is 3…my other friend is 8…its kind of weird..after that..the instructor explain it…why it different…

-the ways we study are not same with our friends

-don’t copy our friends ways of study

-it may make our result bad

-our brains are different each others

Learning Pyramid

-we need to understand how information is learned and to understand the needs of using various kind of active learning strategies in :

1) Learning

2) Retaining

3) Using the information (encoding,storage and retrieval adnd hence

4) Indicates how one learns

5) Remembers and forgets

What is memory? What is brain?

Memory : The retention of information over time or the mind stores or remember   information (mental processes/cognition), just like a computer

Brain : It is an organ, like computer hardware

-when we learn and remember, we will encode, store and retrieve the information

-the analogy is just like a computer

components	computer	human
Encoding / input	Keyboard,camera	Eyes,mouth,nose,skin
Storage	Hard disk,thumb drive	SM, STM,LTM
Retrieval / output	Screen,printer	Writing,talking

Why human’s brain are brilliant than others

creatures????????

-human are the best creature in this world because we have memory

-the size of human’s brain is 3 times bigger than gorilla’s brain

-have memories that we can keep

What is in our brain????????

-can be scan using Magnetic Reasoning Imaging (MRI)

-MRI can measure the activities of the brain and the function of the brain

-in this life, our brain transmits data messages with speeds up to 250km per hour by trillions of cell networks

-in consciousness, our brain can produce 25 watts of electric power which is sufficient to light up a bulb

-files have 1000,000 brain cells, rats have 5,000,000, monkeys have 10,000,000 and human have 100,000,000,000

窗体底端

-it can be said that there is not much different between the human brain

-窗体顶端

窗体底端

-the right brain’s capacity is 100 times than the left brain. Some people use 3% and the others 97% are stored in the right brain of the unconscious part.

Differences between the right and left brain :

The power of mind : we must setting our mind because what ever we do are focusing on what in our mind.

What is the different of memory and brain????????

The relay???? The Storage (retain information)

 What is actually the meaning of MEMORY?

窗-the human memory system is divided into three types : memory of sense (SM), memory short term memory (STM) and long term memory (LTM)

-many of us wondering the ways of methods to improve the memory

-but many did not understand or lack of exposure about the nature of memory

-but there’s are some ways : keep our body healthy

Memory can be improved by :

1) Give your brain a workout

2) Don't skip the physical exercise

3) Get your Zs

4) Make time for friends

5) Keep stress in check

6) Have a laugh

7) Eat a brain-boosting diet

8) Identify and treat health problems

9) Take practical steps to support learning and memory

Why are we always be a forgetful person? :

1)Disturbance

2)Our focus

3)Time factor

Why we always remember others things easily? :

1)Interest

2)Choice

3)Repeat

4)Always exercise

Memory strategies

Examples:

-What strategy do we use to remember the colors of the rainbow??

-if we don’t have a smart phone or pen & paper, what strategy do we have to use to remember our friend’s phone number?

MNEMONICS

-mnemonic is a memory tricks

-it is a method to remember using the things we love and in our environment

-make it funny

-there are two types of mnemonic : acronyms and rhythms

Examples :

Because I had watch Upin Ipin because of my little siblings…I remember how they told us to remember the colors of the rainbow..Its sound likes this..in Malay

Mari   Jual   Kacang   Hijau   Bersama   Ipin  Upin

Others example that our instructor gave in english :

Michael   Jackson  Kill   His   Brother   In   University

It’s so fun right?? we can create it using our creativity…

Strategies For Improving Concentration

-use motivational and organizational strategies (create interest in the work, develop a positive attitude toward you work, use goal setting strategies, use time-management strategies.)

-create a positive learning environment (find a better location, reduce multitasking, minimize distractions)

-deal with internal distractions (deal with personal problems, deal with competing activities)

-use active learning strategies (as discussed in improving memory)

-match your learning style to the task

-monitor your concentration

Cause of Poor concentration

-lack of attention

-lack of interest

-lack of motivation

-distraction from others

-uncomfortable environment

-physiological matters (illness, tiredness)

-psychological matters (personal problem, worries, anxieties)

SURVEY-QUESTION-READ-RECITE-REVIEW(SQ3R)

Survey

-make a survey to get an overview of the chapters that will be read

-tittle, subtopic, introductory chapter, graph, chart, picture or summary of the topic

Question

-build some questions while reading so that our mind is always looking for the answers

 next week..is the last week..im so excited..okay..bye..:D