Topic 5: Memory Learning & Improving Concentration(1/8/2018)

By: Pn. Noor Azimah Bt Darus

From this topic, we can learn how to use our brain wisely and make few effective ways to study. Memory really important for students because it will store important information especially when they needed in examination. Memory also can be use to always remember important moment in our life.

Understanding Memory Processess

From this learning pyramid, we can conclude that we can remember only 10% with what we only reading from source like book or slide. we also can get 50% when we see something and hear with how it doing. we can remember 75% when we actually did something with our own such as experiments and lasty for 90% when we teach people how to do something because it will keep remind us how to do it as long as we use that knowledge that will last long.

Memory Strategies

Memory strategies are few ways to help students know and remember with what they are doing. Different students have different ways of strategies according to their capability to do it. Students need to be active learner to enchance their potential of memory learning.

1. Always writing by own notes or own understanding because it help to remember while thinking
2. Find as many as possible ways to solve any problem
3. Relate with what that we have learn with what had actually it happen in our life
4. feel curious about anything and it will always be in our mind
5. Always make question with any topic to have fully understanding and can use to help other peers
6. Teach our peers when we have fully understanding on any topic to help always recall for it
7. sketch something that make changes to see the differences and relates to our life
8. Always do self assessment to help ensure understand with the main concept and important topic
9. compare notes to our peers and discuss additional important information and changing idea 
10. Avoid distraction such as from phone especially to have peaceful environment that suitable for studying

Understanding Concentration

Concentration is one of the main part that can help we to remember with what we study. more we focus will make us more understand about topic that have been learn especially in class. it because focus help our brain to open and help many information enter or store in it. concentration is something that hard to get because it need our full comitment to successful use it. we easily lose our concentration when we get distracted with something else

Improving Concentration

1. Avoid something distracted especially from sound such as our phone by change it to silent mode and put it away from out study place
2. organized our study place also our bed to have a clean environment to help ourself comfort to study and ready for full focus
3. Go to somewhere else that away from many people make noise such as library that have section that illegal to make any sound
4. make a list-to-do in order to make your work more organized.
5. you can listen to music that help you to study and the best for focusing 
6. various your pens with many colours that can help us to study the important point and make us feel happy to study with colourful notes

SQ3R

This tips are for student to be an effective reader

• Survey from text that have been read and try to find the main structure of the topic
• Query to ourselves for generating more understanding and may be expert about the topic
• Read or scan all of the text and try to understand it
• Recall the query that have been listed to get the point from the text
• Review the text again slowly and remember the idea of what important information

Activities

All of the activities are for train student to be more focus and answer what the question want with various of style to concentrate