IT5010-Advanced Learning and Study Skills

Lecture-01
How to be an effective Learner

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 Agenda
• Preparation for Lectures
• Listening Skills in Lectures
• Cornell Note-taking System
• Mind Mapping
• Personalizing Text-books and
Handouts
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 Preparation for Lectures
• Be aware of the subject/title/topic of the lecture
• Check your current state of knowledge
– Revise Previous Lectures
– Search the topic on the Net
– Check lab sheets, tutorials
– Develop questions (exam papers, readings)

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Preparation for Lectures
• Have a good sleep (Previous Night)
• Have a light diet
• Arrive at Lecture Hall / Online Early
• Keep your day-to-day issues away from learning

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 Listening Skills in Lectures
• Good Habits
– Maintain eye contact, Engage with Lecturer
– Determine Why, What the speaker is saying is
important to you
– Be open minded
– If you can’t hear, arrange things so you can
– Don’t let your mind wonder
– Try to understand the concepts
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Preparation for Online Lectures
• Recorded Lectures
• Select a good time. ( Not too sleepy, not too hungry )
• Avoid a time/place which you get distracted by what’s going around you.
• If you loose attention then pause and take a break and re-play
• Pause and take down notes
• Pause and try the exercises and then compare with the given answers
• Listen many times as much as you want
• Take down questions to ask from the lecturer.

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 Preparation for Online Lectures
Online /Live Lectures
• Sit in a place which you don’t get distracted by what’s going around you.
• Check the devices. ( can hear properly. Can see the video )
• Take down notes
• Send questions to the lecturer through the available medium.
( Chat window )
• Listen well.

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Listening Skills in Lectures
• Bad Habits
– Calling the subject dull
– Criticizing the lecturer
– Getting over stimulated to one part
– Listening only for facts
– Tolerating Distraction

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Cornell Note-taking System
• Importance of taking notes
– Aids comprehension and retention
– Outline of important points
– Keywords for further studies
– Clarification of ideas
– Source for review

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Cornell Note-taking System
• How to Do

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Cornell Note-taking System
• How to do
– Six “R”s
• Record
• Reduce/Question
• Recite
• Reflect
• Recapitulation
• Review

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Cornell Notes

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Mind Mapping
• Help us to think and remember
better
• It grows when your
understanding/insight grows
• You can easily remember photographs you
have seen – take a snapshot of your mind
You can Free Your Mind

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Mind Mapping
• How to do
– Put the central idea and let the other ideas
radiate from it
– Lines
– Headlines/Labels
– Association

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Mind Mapping

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Mind Map

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Concept Map

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Personalizing Text books
& Handouts
• Converts it from Authors version to your version
– Use of proper highlighting
• Do it in the second go
• Not a note but an alternative to note
• Color system for different purpose
– Write between lines
– List of symbols
– Exam questions
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Be prepared and have an effective
learning experience........

Good Luck.......
anjalie.g@sliit.lk

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