Lab 5Learning &Memory (Part 2)
Lab 5 Activity Overview
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Apply SRL in your own learning• My Planner 5
Revisiting How well did your Mnemonic work? Summary Activity (Homework Tues)
Experimenting with Strategies Try out an Activating Prior Knowledge Strategy in a class
Task Understanding ReviewQuiz 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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• 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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• What tips did you generate from the Dunlosky et al article?
Summary Activity Review
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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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• 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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3. 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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• In Lab 2, you did a task analysis where you generated questions to ask your professor– What questions did you ask?– What were the answers?– What did you find?
Task Analysis Questions
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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