Lab5 fall 2013 (revised oct.7)

Lab 5Learning &Memory (Part 2)

Lab 5 Activity Overview

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• My Planner 5• Revisiting Attention Monitoring• Revisiting your Mnemonic Strategy• Activating Prior Knowledge Strategies• Summary Activity• Quiz 2 today!• Quiz 3 is on next lab day!

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• My Planners guide you to engage in the SRL cycle by – Thinking ahead (Plan/Set goals)– Thinking back (Monitor how things went)

• Make ‘My Planner’ work for you– Thoughtful and reflective answers!– Should take you 10-15 minutes

My Planner 5

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• How focused are you?

• What are the main sources of distraction for you?

• What do you need to change so you can focus?

Attention Monitoring

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• Last lab you tried out a mnemonic strategy to remember some material from your course

– Do you remember your mnemonic?

– Do you remember the material you associated with it?

– Why do you think it worked (or didn’t work) for you?

How well did your mnemonic strategy work?

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• Find Activating Prior Knowledge Strategies in the Strategy Library – In “Strategies for Complex Information” section– Read the Introduction to Activating Prior Knowledge– Read about each APK strategy

• Try one out – Get out your course material & choose something you will be learning about next lecture

– Strategically choose the activating prior knowledge strategy you think would work best and try it out now

Make a Change: Try Out an Activating Prior Knowledge Strategy

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• Refer to the Dunolsky et al. (2013) article• Use what you found in this paper to create 1 tip

for “what students should know about learning”

Summary Activity

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• What tips did you generate from the Dunlosky et al article?

Summary Activity Review

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Summary Activity Review:Strategy Library Organized by Process

Assemble Rehearse Translate

SelectingOrganizing & Structuring

Generative Processing & Elaboration

Repetition & Rehearsal

Activating Prior Knowledge

Search Monitor Assemble Rehearse Translate

Basic Cognitive (Thinking) Operations

Important Learning

Processes

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• Could it help you to…

Summary Activity Review

Activate prior Knowl

Select Organize/Assemble

Generate/elaborate

Rehearse

Practice testing ✔

Before new learning

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Distributed practice ✔

Elaborative Interrogation ✔ ✔? ✔ ✔

Self-explanation ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔

Interleaved practice ✔

Summarization (concept mapping) ✔? ✔? ✔? ✔?

Keyword mnemonic ✔ ✔

Imagery for text ✔ ✔

Rereading ✔

Highlighting/underlining ✔

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• Could it engage your brain?

Summary Activity Review

Search Monitor Assemble Rehearse Translate

Practice testing ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔

Distributed practice ✔ ✔

Elaborative Interrogation ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔

Self-explanation ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔

Interleaved practice ✔ ✔

Summarization (concept mapping) ✔? ✔? ✔? ✔? ✔?

Keyword mnemonic ✔ ✔

Imagery for text ✔ ✔

Rereading ✔ ✔

Highlighting/underlining ✔

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• Effectiveness of the tactic (technique or strategy) depends upon many variables

Summary Activity Review

WHAT you have to learn Learning CONDITIONS or situation

YOUR beliefs , knowledge, skills

HOW you need to KNOW or USE the knowledge

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• Finding the right strategy... It isn’t the technique or recipe you use that matters It is the kind of processing, thinking it engages, and

whether or not that is appropriate for the task Does it build on your strengths and compensate for

weaknesses? Do you know how and why it works? Does it engage SMART operations? Does it address these

processing areas? How can you evaluate the strategy?

Summary Activity Review

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• Quiz 2 in lab– Any attempts to complete the quiz outside of lab results in

automatic failure– All attempts are time stamped and logged

• Your instructor will provide you with instructions about how to access the quiz in lab

Quiz 2