Welcome to Module 6! During this module we'll be talking about one of "the" most important aspects of being a successful college student......memory, studying, and test taking!
Due This Week:
BEFORE YOU WATCH THIS VIDEO, NUMBER A SHEET OF PAPER FROM 1 - 13! Then, play the video. Good luck!
Memory
Caring for your brain:
1. Get enough sleep and exercise. Oxygen is food for your brain.
2. Eat right—practice choosing foods with good nutrition.
3. Use it! Condition your brain by doing puzzles and games, reading, solving math problems, storytelling)
4. Be motivated to learn—you must have a reason to remember.
5. Think positive! Use positive self-talk. This helps your attitude and openness to learning.
Please click on the link below to read an excellent article over using flashcards for quick memorization. Great article!!!!
A big goal in FCST 1010 is reflection. As a college student it's not only important to learn and do well in your classes - you must also learn to reflect on your college experience and the new attitudes, knowledge, and skills that you are gaining. Taking time to step back and think about experience will not only give you a richer experience but will also help you learn and apply knowledge. Reflection is basically the opposite of cramming for a test - it actually helps you remember and use information for a longer amount of time (hopefully a lifetime!). A great way to foster reflection is by journaling.
Post your journals to the discussion board in D2L under Assessments/Discussion/Journal Entry #6. Please be aware that all students in the online classes will be able to see your entries - these are not private.
Journal Entry #6 - How do you feel when you take a test?
When completing your Journal Entry #6 for this week, you wrote down your thoughts and feelings about test taking. Whether you are a stress-free test taker or you get really rattled, the following videos will give you wonderful test-taking tips!
Helpful hint: Putting a piece of peppermint in your mouth before a test will "open up" your brain. :0)
Click on the link below for more test-taking tips! Great infographic! When you pull up the link, left click on the graphic to increase the size. Enjoy!!
Challenge 6:
Read the 2 articles below on stress reduction and test anxiety. Print or write down three strategies from the articles that you feel would be helpful to remember before you take your next test. Write one paragraph for each strategy you choose. Label each paragraph 1, 2, and 3. Explain in the paragraph why you chose that strategy and how you will use it. That means.....you will have 3 paragraphs total.
In 1956, a educational psychologist named Benjamin Bloom along with some other collaborators created what is now known as Bloom's Taxonomy. Bloom's Taxonomy is a framework used to develop learning objectives on the cognitive, psychomotor and affective domains. The cognitive domain focuses on knowledge based learning objectives, the affective domain focuses on emotion based learning objectives and the psychomotor domain focuses on the action orientated or physical learning objectives.
Most commonly the learning objectives that are written for a class will be within the cognitive domain. The cognitive domain is broken into levels: knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis and evaluation. Each one of these levels has verbs associated with them that can be used to create measurable learning objectives.
Then in the 1990s, a student of Benjamin Bloom provided some revisions to the cognitive domain after doing further research. 1990s, a student of Benjamin Bloom provided some revisions to the cognitive domain after doing further research. The levels of the revised cognitive are: remember, understand, apply, analyze, evaluate and create. As you can see they are very similar.
Bet you are thinking....boring....why does this matter to me? Well here is why it matters. The course, and all of your other courses, are based on two types of learning objectives course level and module or unit level objectives. These objectives are a kind of road map for the course. It tells the student from the beginning of the class what they can expect to learn. In fact, you can find the course learning objectives in the Getting Started Module of this course. Each week you should have noticed that there are module learning objectives in the Welcome content.
Here is your task this week:
For example,
Learning Objective: Recognize the benefits of attending college
Bloom's Taxonomy Level: Comprehension
This is because the word recognize falls under the comprehension level.
For the purposes of this assignment, please use the revised Blooms level names.
There will be times when the same word falls in two levels, you will have to put your thinking cap on and apply some critical thinking skills to figure it out.