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Memory Techniques for you to try! REMEMBER 2 have FUN! by CCThum

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Visual thinking tools

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(A) FILL IN THE DETAILS OF YOUR NAME CARD
(B) FORM A GROUP OF 6 PERSONS
(C) INTRODUCE VERBALLY WITHOUT SHOWING YOUR CARDS. REMEMBER YOUR GROUP MEMBERS.
(D) APPOINT GROUP LEADER
(E) GROUP NAME
(F) DEBRIEF: EASY TO REMEMBER NEW INFORMATION? MEMORY PROCESS. STM
(G) REVEAL YOUR NAME CARDS. TAKE PHOTO. STORE INFORMATION.
(H) DEBRIEF: LISTENING TO LECTURES & TAKING NOTES!
(I) ORGANISE TO ENCODE. MAKE SENSE OF INFORMATION.
(J) MEMORY SECRETS REVEALED & PRACTISE.
(K) MOBAGOGY WITH APPS!
(L) SHOW & TELL: REAL EXAMPLES ON THIS WIRKSHOP & LAW SUBJECTS
(M) Padlet. FUNCTIONS
(N) SHARING INTRA & INTER GROUPS WITH QR
(O) REFLECTION & CLOSING

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In 7 free-recall experiments, the benefit of creating drawings of to-be-remembered information relative to writing was examined as a mnemonic strategy. In Experiments 1 and 2, participants were presented with a list of words and were asked to either draw or write out each. Drawn words were better recalled than written. Experiments 3-5 showed that the memory boost provided by drawing could not be explained by elaborative encoding (deep level of processing, LoP), visual imagery, or picture superiority, respectively. In Experiment 6, we explored potential limitations of the drawing effect, by reducing encoding time and increasing list length. Drawing, relative to writing, still benefited memory despite these constraints. In Experiment 7, the drawing effect was significant even when encoding trial types were compared in pure lists between participants, inconsistent with a distinctiveness account. Together these experiments indicate that drawing enhances memory relative to writing, across settings, instructions, and alternate encoding strategies, both within- and between-participants, and that a deep LoP, visual imagery, or picture superiority, alone or collectively, are not sufficient to explain the observed effect. We propose that drawing improves memory by encouraging a seamless integration of semantic, visual, and motor aspects of a memory trace.

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The drawing effect: Evidence for reliable and robust memory benefits in free recall

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In 7 free-recall experiments, the benefit of creating drawings of to-be-remembered information relative to writing was examined as a mnemonic strategy. In Experiments 1 and 2, participants were presented with a list of words and were asked to either draw or write out each. Drawn words were better recalled than written.

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Memory is a process. Unlock the ‘Da Vinci Code’ of memory to energise your learning. Learn the tools to organise and memorise information your way! Latest development:  the use of apps to digitise memory techniques!

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The BIG Picture approach to organise & memorise information.

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- NAME
- COURSE
- SUBJECTS
- FAVOURITE
- WEAKEST
- HOBBIES
- MUSIC
- MOVIE
- MEMORY SECRETS

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Researchers say that if both sexes had access to same levels of education women would do best on memory - and men at maths

More than 31,000 men women aged 50-plus from 13 countries were put through three tests of brainpower

In northern Europe, women in their 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s outperformed men in memory test

Men's and women's brains really are different.

Researchers say that if both sexes had access to the same levels of education, they'd expect women to do best on tests of memory - and men to excel at maths.

The prediction comes after an analysis of how the sexes' abilities varied across Europe across time.

More than 31,000 men and women aged 50-plus from 13 countries were put through three tests of brainpower.

The test of numeracy involved being given five questions, such as working out how much a cut-price car would have cost when new, while the memory test involved trying to remember a list of ten words.

The third test was of 'verbal fluency' - and involved naming as many different animals as possible in a minute.

In northern Europe, women in their 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s consistently outperformed the men in the memory test.

However, in southern Europe, where economic conditions were poorer for longer, the earliest born women did worse than the men. However, as education and living conditions improved, so did their performance and those born from around 1940 onwards beat their male counterparts.

Men came out top in the maths tests in all countries at all ages.

However, the gap narrowed as conditions improved, the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reports.

The researchers, from the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Austria, said that women may benefit more than men from improvements in lifestyle because they were at a greater disadvantage to begin with.

They said the patterns mean that if men and women had equal access to education, females should do better than men.

Men should still to slightly better than maths - and the sexes should do equally well in quick fire tests of vocabulary.

It is thought the differing strengths can be explained by differences in the biology of the brain as well as in the way the sexes are treated by society.

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Female brains really ARE different to male minds

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Researchers say that if both sexes had access to same levels of education women would do best on memory - and men at maths More than 31,000 men women aged 50-plus from 13 countries were put through three tests of brainpower In northern Europe, women in their 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s outperformed men in memory test Men's and women's brains really are different.

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Identify and highlight the key concepts to be memorisd.

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YOU ARE A GENIUS - The Motivational Video that Will Literally Change Your Life, Change Your Mindset

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This is an incredibly inspiring speech that everyone needs to hear! After a childhood brain injury left him learning-challenged, Jim Kwik created strategies that dramatically enhanced his mental performance, becoming an expert in speed-reading, accelerated learning and memory improvement. These motivational videos are created to motivate students to study for exams, work hard, and fight feelings of depression.

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Produced by Graham de Barra www.facebook.com/youtubeknowledge The Fastest Way to Memorize. Improve your memory with these 2 minute techniques. Take the test and please leave feedback! Produced by Graham de Barra Visit www.grahamdebarra.com to check out Graham de Barra's CV and other projects.

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Emotionally Connecting the dots: Concepts to Life (news articles, scenarios)

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https://youtu.be/JrXMrH7E4Jw

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https://youtu.be/sPRpVL58IKE

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11 Secrets to Memorize Things Quicker Than Others

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https://youtu.be/sPRpVL58IKE

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🎥 MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE -  FALLOUT (2018) | TRAILER 2 | Full Movie Trailer in Full HD | 1080p

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Want to learn better? Start mind mapping | Hazel Wagner | TEDxNaperville

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As laptops become smaller and more ubiquitous, and with the advent of tablets, the idea of taking notes by hand just seems old-fashioned to many students today. Typing your notes is faster - which comes in handy when there's a lot of information to take down. But it turns out there are still advantages to doing things the old-fashioned way.

For one thing, research shows that laptops and tablets have a tendency to be distracting - it's so easy to click over to Facebook in that dull lecture. And a study has shown that the fact that you have to be slower when you take notes by hand is what makes it more useful in the long run.

In the study published in Psychological Science, Pam A. Mueller of Princeton University and Daniel M. Oppenheimer of the University of California, Los Angeles sought to test how note-taking by hand or by computer affects learning.

"When people type their notes, they have this tendency to try to take verbatim notes and write down as much of the lecture as they can," Mueller tells NPR's Rachel Martin. "The students who were taking longhand notes in our studies were forced to be more selective - because you can't write as fast as you can type. And that extra processing of the material that they were doing benefited them."

Mueller and Oppenheimer cited that note-taking can be categorized two ways: generative and nongenerative. Generative note-taking pertains to "summarizing, paraphrasing, concept mapping," while nongenerative note-taking involves copying something verbatim.

And there are two hypotheses to why note-taking is beneficial in the first place. The first idea is called the encoding hypothesis, which says that when a person is taking notes, "the processing that occurs" will improve "learning and retention." The second, called the external-storage hypothesis, is that you learn by being able to look back at your notes, or even the notes of other people.

Because people can type faster than they write, using a laptop will make people more likely to try to transcribe everything they're hearing. So on the one hand, Mueller and Oppenheimer were faced with the question of whether the benefits of being able to look at your more complete, transcribed notes on a laptop outweigh the drawbacks of not processing that information. On the other hand, when writing longhand, you process the information better but have less to look back at.

For their first study, they took university students (the standard guinea pig of psychology) and showed them TED talks about various topics. Afterward, they found that the students who used laptops typed significantly more words than those who took notes by hand. When testing how well the students remembered information, the researchers found a key point of divergence in the type of question. For questions that asked students to simply remember facts, like dates, both groups did equally well. But for "conceptual-application" questions, such as, "How do Japan and Sweden differ in their approaches to equality within their societies?" the laptop users did "significantly worse."

The same thing happened in the second study, even when they specifically told students using laptops to try to avoid writing things down verbatim. "Even when we told people they shouldn't be taking these verbatim notes, they were not able to overcome that instinct," Mueller says. The more words the students copied verbatim, the worse they performed on recall tests.

And to test the external-storage hypothesis, for the third study they gave students the opportunity to review their notes in between the lecture and test. The thinking is, if students have time to study their notes from their laptops, the fact that they typed more extensive notes than their longhand-writing peers could possibly help them perform better.

But the students taking notes by hand still performed better. "This is suggestive evidence that longhand notes may have superior external storage as well as superior encoding functions," Mueller and Oppenheimer write.

Do studies like these mean wise college students will start migrating back to notebooks?

"I think it is a hard sell to get people to go back to pen and paper," Mueller says. "But they are developing lots of technologies now like Livescribe and various stylus and tablet technologies that are getting better and better. And I think that will be sort of an easier sell to college students and people of that generation."

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Attention, Students: Put Your Laptops Away

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Researchers Pam Mueller and Daniel M. Oppenheimer found that students remember more via taking notes longhand rather than on a laptop. It has to do with what happens when you're forced to slow down.

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The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

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A picture is worth a thousand words.... When it comes to conveying a concept, this sentiment cancertainly be true. But it may also be the case for memory. At least that's the message from Myra Fernandes and colleagues at the University of Waterloo, Canada - writing in Current Directions in Psychological Science, they argue that their research programme shows that drawing has a "surprisingly powerful influence" on memory, and as a mnemonic technique, it could be particularly useful for older adults - and even people with dementia.

Fernandes and her colleagues first established what they call the " drawing effect " - getting people to draw quick pictures of words in a list (such as "truck" or "pear") led to much better recall of those words than writing them out multiple times. Creating just a four-second drawing was also superior to imagining the items or viewing pictures of the words.

This was proof of principle type work. The researchers next looked at whether drawing aids memory of more complex terms and concepts. They found that study participants who had a minute to draw an image representing "isotope" or "spore", for example, were more likely to remember the meaning than people who were asked to copy out the definitions instead. "As with single words, we reasoned that drawing facilitates retention, at least in part, because it requires elaboration on the meaning of the term and translating the definition to a new form (a picture)," the researchers write.

In fact, there are various components to the process of drawing a picture of a word or concept, each of which seem to cumulatively aid memory. Getting people to trace over an existing drawing (so getting them to make relevant arm and hand movements, but not allowing personal elaboration), or to create a drawing which they were then not allowed to see (so allowing the physical movements and personal elaboration, but depriving them of the visual memory of the end result) both improved memory - but not as much as when all of these stages were allowed. "Memory scaled up as components were added to the encoding task," the researchers note.

Fernandes and her colleagues went on to find that although older adults performed worse than younger adults at remembering words they had learned by writing, there was no difference between the two age groups in their ability to remember words they had drawn. Encouraged by these results, the team then asked 13 people diagnosed with dementia and living in a long-term care facility to either draw or write 60 words that were read aloud by an experimenter. The results showed a "massive" memory benefit for words that had been drawn rather than written. If it can be shown that drawing also helps with other sorts of memory - for where things are kept, perhaps -this strategy could be practically useful for people with dementia.

In some cases, the patients' drawings looked just like scribbles. But how good - or bad - the drawings were didn't seem to matter. In fact, in most of the experiments, the researchers assessed their participants' ability to create vivid images and also their experience at drawing, and neither was correlated with memory performance. Even people who struggle to create a stick figure should, then, get memory benefits from drawing.

There's still plenty of work to be done to investigate whether drawing terms, events or concepts that you want to recall can bring real-world benefits - whether in the classroom or in a care home. But this is a comprehensive set of studies, all pointing in the same direction. "Taken together, the evidence...demonstrates that drawing is a robust encoding strategy that can, and does, improve memory performance dramatically," the researchers conclude.

- The Surprisingly Powerful Influence of Drawing on Memory
Emma Young (@EmmaELYoung) is Staff Writer at BPS Research Digest

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The act of drawing something has a "massive" benefit for memory compared with writing it down

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A picture is worth a thousand words.... When it comes to conveying a concept, this sentiment cancertainly be true. But it may also be the case for memory.