Chapter 11 Using Visual Notetaking Systems. Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.11 - 2 Metacognition Metacognition is the process.

Chapter 11

Using Visual Notetaking Systems

Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. 11 - 2

Metacognition

Metacognition is the process of understanding:

• how you learn

• what you need to learn

• which strategies or techniques would be the most effective and best matched to the learning task and your learning process.

Through the use of metacognition, you can tailor or personalize your approach to learning by selecting the combinations that work best for you in particular learning situations.


Visual Notetaking Systems

Visual notetaking systems are powerful and work effectively because they are based on memory principles that boost your ability to learn new information.


Kinds of Visual Notes:

Visual Mappings

Hierarchies

Comparison Charts

Other forms of visual notes:

• Pie charts, tables, bar graphs, line graphs, and flow charts

• Diagrams, time lines, and informational charts


The Power of Visual NotetakingVisual notes are also powerful because they

• incorporate the use of colors, pictures, symbols, and graphics.

• provide you with visual cues and associations to trigger memory.

• provide structure to organize and rearrange information logically.

• show relationships and levels of information.

• provide a way to personalize information in creative, interesting ways.

• promote effective recitation.

• lead to elaborative rehearsal.

• increase concentration.

• Involve multisensory approaches to learning.


Visual Mappings


Hierarchies


Levels of Information

Level 1 = Topic or subject

Level 2 = Main ideas

Level 3 = Key words and details

Level 4 = Minor details


Essential Strategies for Studying Visual Mappings and Hierarchies

• Imprint into your memory a visual picture of your mapping or hierarchy.

• Visualize the topic and the main headings (the skeleton).

• Recite the topic and the main headings.

• Recite the details.

• Use a reflect activity.

• Use ongoing review.


Comparison Charts


Essential Strategies to Study Comparison Charts

• Imprint into your memory a visual picture of the skeleton of your chart.

• Visualize the skeleton of your comparison chart.

• Recite and check your accuracy.

• Use reflect activities.

• Use ongoing review.


Creating Your Own Graphic Materials

As you read and study from your textbooks, be alert for opportunities to convert printed information into forms of visual graphics.

Four common visual graphics include:

• Pie charts

• Line graphs

• Time lines

• Diagrams


Active Readers and Active Learners

Strategies for active readers and active learners:

• Read the titles and the captions of all graphic materials.

• Examine the details carefully.

• Draw conclusions or summarize the significance of the information.

• Copy the graphic materials into your notes when the material is not too complex.

• Color-code the parts of the visual notes.

• Expand the textbook graphic materials by adding reminders, details, or explanations.

• Write a short summary under the visual graphic.

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