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Your brain actually remembers information better if it warms up. You warm up your brain by preparing it for the academic activity that it must do. If you are preparing for a discussion, for example, you can ask yourself, “Why is my instructor going to have a discussion? What do they hope I will ‘get out’ of this discussion?”
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Work out |
In academics, the purpose of the workout is to learn the material you need to know in order to be successful in the class. This might involve reading, jotting down ideas you might wish to share in discussion, or taking notes on a lecture.
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In academics, the purpose of a cool down is to do two things—one, make some decisions about what you did during your workout that is important enough to remember and two, plan ahead. What will you need to study tomorrow? What confuses you and how can you get help with your confusion?
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What makes you happy? Define happiness. How happy are you? Is it important to be happy? If so, why? If not, why not?
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Academic Skill: Focus on Lecture
In order to prepare to read the articles in this chapter, you will be listening to several lectures first.
Warm up to Listen to a Lecture
Usually, the lectures you will hear in class do not have titles, but this one does. Use it to get clues about what you will hear.
Work Out during Lecture
In Chapter 1, you learned about several strategies to take notes successfully during a lecture.
Make a Plan
When you are ready, watch the lecture.
While you are watching it, do your best to use the two suggestions you settled on. If you fall behind, don’t worry—this is practice, and, since it is a recorded lecture, you can stop and rewind. Do your best.
Cool Down from Listening to a Lecture
Once you are done listening to the lecture, go back over your notes and fill in additional information that you remember but did not get a chance to write down. Next, try one of the following suggestions you learned about in chapter one in the Cool Down section.
After you have completed your cool down activity, switch notes with a classmate to see how your notes are different from his or hers.
When you are done with all of that, go back and watch the lecture again. Take a different color pen and jot down the information that you missed the first time through. Pay attention to how much information you did get down the first time you heard the lecture and notice how much more information you are adding the second time.
Academic Skill: Focus on Reading
As a reminder, here is the overview again of the process you can use to read the articles in this chapter.
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Warm-up |
To warm up your brain, spend a few minutes looking over the material you need to read. Read the headings and subheadings. Look at graphics and pictures if there are any. Ask yourself “What will I be learning in this reading?” “What ideas seem to be important?”
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Work out |
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