Transcript A man receives only what he is ready to receive .

A man receives only what he is ready to receive . . .
We hear and apprehend only what we already
half know . . . Every man thus tracks himself
through life, in all his hearing and reading and
observation and traveling. His observations make
a chain. The phenomenon or fact that cannot in
any [way] be linked with the rest of what he has
observed, he does not observe. By and by we may
be ready to receive what we cannot receive now.
Henry David Thoreau
Study tips
ARRANGE FOR REPETITION
ARRANGE FOR REPETITION
ARRANGE FOR REPETITION
Reading your book
1. Put the highlighter away
FIRST TIME: Just relax and read
2ND TIME: Start with summary; read
through text, stopping for unfamiliar
words – understand details
3RD TIME: read for complete
understanding; relate details to major
points in summary (use highlighter now)
Taking notes in class
DON’T WRITE THIS DOWN – THINK
ABOUT IT
FEELING IT IS MORE IMPORTANT
THAN WRITING IT
Write down main ideas in complete
phrases – complete sentences after
class if possible.
We are MEAT, not magnetic media
MEAT learns
through
EMOTION
S.E.E.? Significant
Emotional
Experience
Forgetting is an integral part of learning
3 ways to learn to remember something
1. Think about it, feel about it,
think about your feelings
2. Think about specific cues that
lead back to what you are
trying to learn & remember
3. Beware of false confidence
Don’t confuse
FAMILIARITY
with
KNOWLEDGE
It used to occur and indeed still happens to
me that a work of fine art displeases me at
first sight, because I have not grown towards
it; however, let me once suspect it of any
merit, and I will seek to gain access to it,
finding then no lack of the most gratifying
discoveries; I become aware of new properties
in things and of new faculties in myself.
Goethe, “Maxims and Reflections”
A key component of general
INTELLIGENCE
is the capability to distinguish
KEY POINTS from
SUPPORTING DETAILS
SALIENT
SALIENT
SALIENT
We learn through
a. Repetition & emotional experience
b. storing information in our computer-like memories.
Studies show that college students forget 50-80% of factual
course material within
a. one week
c. one year
b. one month
d. ten years.
10% of the final grade for this class, an entire letter grade,
depends on your trip report about going to an art museum.
This is because the professor believes that
a. computer and slide projections are pathetic
representations of works of art.
b. illustrations in the textbook are far too small and are also
pathetic representations of works of art.
c. the best place to experience art is not in the classroom.
d. there is no substitute for being in the presence of the
actual object.
e. All of the above.