RD 115 Critical Thinking and Power Reading

Advanced Learning SystemSecret Dendrite Growing Process

• All new knowledge, or skills, your brain learns depend upon your past experiences.

• Memories are stored in the brain using a very specific system based on brain cells called neurons and the tiny filaments that grow between them.

• Each new item you learn must connect to dendrites next to a memory brain cell that has already grown.

• This is the secret to your accelerated learning system!

Brain Parts and Functions

Brain Activity

Dendrite Model

Dendrite Growth Pattern

The Advanced Critical Thinking College Note Taking Process

by Eldon McMurray & John Sperry

95% of Test Materialis Explained Orally

Be more a CURIOUS LISTENER CURIOUS LISTENER Use the SECRET CLASSROOM Use the SECRET CLASSROOM Choose Where you sit by yourChoose Where you sit by your

Visual Learners

Auditory Learners

Stay out ofStay out of Back corners Back corners

LearningLearning

StyleStyle

SPERRYNOTES

Time SensitiveHours 5

Research basedQuestions 5

Spaced ReviewDays 5

MetacognitiveCritical Thinking Note taking Process Flow

100%

24 hours

Forget80%in

Time

Remember

Professors discussat least 5 test questions a day

Use spaced review starting 5 days before the test

5 hours

10%

Categorize

Recognize

Analogize

Prioritize

Synergize

Summarize

1. Categorize notes by showing relationships

2. Recognize what you know and what you don’t know

3. Analogize what you don’t know. What is it “most like?”

4. Prioritize it by how important it is to the professor. Any clues given?

5. Synergize your notes with a classmate to make them as complete as possible.

6. Summarize Predict the Test questions from this days note.

Process Flow Critical Thinking

Class or Reading NotesCritical ThinkingProcess notes into memories

Date Chapter/Topic pages

_Take basic notes on the left hand page

_ Start each new idea with a dash for numbering later during process flow. This allows ideas freedom to move

_ If the professor goes back to an earlier idea just continue writing

_ Just number the idea the to show the relationships same as before

_

1. Process your notes on the right hand page

2. Create an analogy to what you know

3. Create visuals to help you remember

2. Coordinate numbers and ideas from the right hand page

3. Make up mnemonic devices to remember

4. Write them as questions

1. What cell structure is called the “Fluid Mosaic Model?”Phosphorus1. betweenDouble layer of lipidstructure of theplasma membrane?

2. What is a characteristic

of all living cells?

3. Osmosis, Assisted- Diffusion and Phagosytosis are_____ Waste

__A Plasma Membrane is

a phospho-lipid bi-layer

__All cells have PM

__PM controls flow of molecules into and out of the cell

__3 types of inter cellular flow

Osmosis

Assisted Osmosis

Phagosytosis

Class NotesCritical Thinking Process Flow

H2O

Date 9/3/02 Chapter 4 Topic: Cells pages

“Talking” with Textbook authors Talking about the where the book fits into the world

scheme Building the new dendrite framework with post-it note

technology

“Visualizing concepts to connect and memorize faster

Questions, Questions, always more test questions

Increasing eye tracking fluency with a pencil for better reading speed

Understanding language structure for context capture

Setting and using comprehension fix-up checkpoints

Information to be learned in question form.

Side A:

Side B:

Answer to side A

Add a picture to learn the term 3 times faster

Answer to side B

Phrased as a question

Add a picture to learn the term 3 times faster

SMART Q-Card SMART Q-Card

What are the components ofMETABOLISM?

Why do living things needMETABOLISM?

ENERGY?

How do living organisms

obtain

are three components of ____________________?

1. uptake 2. process

3. eliminate

a2-b2=(a+b)(a-b)

Difference of squares

What is the formula for

factoring

is the formula for

factoring _________.

2 - 2 =( + ) ( - - )Side A: Chapter pp358

Side B:

(a+b)(a-b)

a2-b2

How do I factor

is the factorization of _________?

2 - 2

=( + ) ( - - )Side A: Chapter pp369

Side B:

Creating SMART Q-Cards give yourself “The Edge”

Creating SMART Q-Cards give yourself “The Edge”

– Each time you study the card, use a different VOICE (whisper, question, shout, or sing enthusiastically!)

– Repetition & novelty are the 2 keys to remembering

– Use WAIT or WASTED time

– Must be portable. Carry them with you

– Must be easy to use or you won’t...

Repetition & Novelty Active RECALL

Repeat repeat repeatEmotional connections Color visualsAll 5 sensesLittle voicesListen to music

2 Stack Study System

Review StackActive Stack

2-3 times a day untillearned

Weekly checkTo keep dendrites fresh

Biology Mid-term 2

Enzymes

Aerobic CellularRespiration

Photsynthesis

DNA & RNA

11X17=2pages

Transcription

Translation

Ph scale

Glycolisis

Krebs cycle

ETSPhoto System I

Photo System II

Key terms

Key termsSELFISHQ-Cards

Key termsSELFISH

Key termsSELFISH

Active site

Goal 300m

100m

200m

Day1 2 3 4 5 Minutes

Masteryof content

Who?What?When?Where?

Why?

Understandingthe criteria

Synthesisof constructs

What if...

InvolvementFor concrete

How?