Teaching Students How to Study is as Important as Teaching the Subject Matter of a Course

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OUMH 1103

LEARNING SKILLS FOR OPEN DISTANCE LEARNERS

JANUARY 2016 SEMESTER

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ASSIGNMENT QUESTION

PURPOSE

The purpose of this task is to assess your ability to:

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• search for information;

• make notes from the reading material;

• acknowledge other authors’ work, and

• demonstrate logical arguments/discussions with supporting facts and evidences.

ACTIVITY 1 (30%)

‘Teaching students how to study is as important as teaching the subject matter of a course.

Study skills help students achieve their goals, not only while in school/college or university,

but also in their daily lives’.

Do you agree or disagree with the statement

!n "##$"%# words, discuss relevant reasons to support your stand.

ACTIVITY 2 (30%)

!rrespective of your aim of furthering your studies, whether for pleasure, career advancement,

gaining a &ualification or ac&uiring knowledge and skills, a study skills course offers good

opportunity for self$advancement. 'eviewing and developing your study skills will not only

boost your confidence and help you succeed, but will also enable you to study more

effectively in the time available to you.

!n an essay of "##$"%# words, elaborate on how the time management skills that you have

learnt assist your planning in your studies. (upport your answer with relevant e)amples.

ACTIVITY 3 (30%)

'ead an essay on *emori+ation’ refer to -ttachment of the assignment &uestion. 0asedon the essay, prepare:

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a an annotation; and

b a mind map can be done in handwriting or computer typing of the essay that you

have read.

12ote: 3or this activity you are re&uired to scan your annotation notes and mind map if

written and submit them via online.

ACTIVITY ! (10%)

(hare your e)periences and describe how you make use of my456 to help you in learning

ote! "rite an essay of #$%&'%% words for the above activity.

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1-0 QUESTION 1

2owadays, provide instruction to students is a ma7or challenge to the teacher. The

need to provide continuous training to students to help students more competitive in the

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future. -s a teacher, the best of success for them is when their student manage to independent

and contribute to their society. 0ut as we already mentioned before, the challenge to make

this dream reality is too tough.

Teaching students how to learn is one of the important things that need to be

emphasi+ed during learning process. it is important as teaching a sub7ect matter of a course.

(ometimes students really take this lightly. -s a result of the convergence and focus on

developing students8 knowledge is also limited to e)isting knowledge. !t8s also include not

only the knowledge that want to be delivered to student, but also the way how the knowledge

can be represent. -s a result of weaknesses in the teacher focuses on student cause adverse

effects will be received by the students.

0esides that, study skills also can help student in enhance their soft skills. the way

student are nowadays being thought about their self management and self assessment as one

of criteria to developed soft skills. -ccording to 0rian Tracy 9#", the way teachers

delegate and describe the paper work or assignment to student basically helping student to

improve themselves. nintentionally, teachers already provide student with a little of

knowledge to student. (elf$improvement skills can help students more competitive with

challenges.

-nother purpose of teaching student is it will help student to set their goal. -s when

student are given some assignment in their courses, they will always more focused on the

ob7ectives and goals of the course until they may fulfilled it. -s they stay focused on their big

picture, their ob7ective, they can come out with two or more plan so they can really manage

to finished their assignment. if we take this analogy in our daily life, basically we will do thesame. !f we want to achieve our goal to became success person, we should plan wisely and

take some two or three steps forward to e)pect the une)pected. -s a result, student will learn

how to manage the source and organi+e a better plan to achieve their goal.

-s we come to the conclusion, all discussion we made on the main topic and preview

the structure of paper with all the fact, then ! agree that study skills help student achieve their

goals, not only in college/schools or university but also in their daily life.

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2-0 QUESTION 2

*ost students find that their greatest challenge in ad7usting to college life and to

succeeding in the classroom is in managing their time effectively. This is especially true for

community college students who often work long hours. 3ail to plan with efficient time

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management will consider as a failure. (ometimes, this happen upon a certain reason. 0esides

that adult students deal with the additional issues of child care and family and home

responsibilities. -ll of this reason will cause so much burden and failure in time management

that we want to discuss on up rise matter.

3irst of all, after identifying the main problems in the management of time, we need

to plan our schedule, rearranging the table by putting the needs of learning, personal

and management. -ccording to 0rian Tracy 9#", it is important to overcome the stress that

causes our failure time management. 3or e)ample, by putting the important work for e)ample

the class and assignment over our routine and social life is a way to ma)imi+e our time

management. no> learn to say >later>.

0esides that, by understood the real goal of our life, we can construct back our

mentality and put things important and urgent than things important and not urgent. ?e

already know if we will be given with a new assignment at the beginning of each school term,

certainly we will identify some resources that can help us in meeting the needs of the sub7ect.

=ence the need to find a good source as tutor to meet more often to understand the needs of

the course and revision of a book in the library is an important factor to the success of

managing time well. (o, in order to ma)imi+e the capacity of student with full of

responsibility as workers also, we need to well manage all of our recourses.

5ast but not least, the important thing is to how to improve decision$making ability.

-s a student who is also an employee, we will be charged with the duties and responsibilities

that come at the same time. The need for us to make the right decisions in a short time can be

driven by a high sense of accountability. 3or e)ample, to fulfill coursework re&uirement

compared to routine 7ob, both of it are important but the most important work to do is depend

on when the work should be handed to authori+ed person. !f we manage to do this then at the

same time can reduce the feeling of pressure as a result of our failure to manage time well.

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!n conclusion, the three reasons and arguments given above helped me to manage

time well in addition to ma)imi+ing the time that belongs to me. 6ven in busy time at work,

at the same time ! also can arrange courses given task well.

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3-0 QUESTION 3

MEMORI.ATION

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. *emory itself probably cannot be developed; however, improvement in remembering

comes from correcting certain habits or thoughts so that we use our memory to its’

fullest potential. 'emembering is like seeing; improvement in either function does not

depend upon how much we use it, but, rather, how we use it.

9. The first and most important rule for remembering is: cultivate the habit of close

attention to the thing you wish to remember. 0e sure you have a clear, sharp

impression of the face, name, date, or facts, which you will need to know at a future

time. !f you wish to remember a fact, make it meaningful to you.

". ?hen we are learning, we should try not only to get a strong impression, but also to

obtain as many different kinds of impressions as possible. (ome people can

remember colours distinctly, but have a poor memory for shapes. 0ut anyone, by

putting together and using all of the impressions our sense organs bring us about one

thing, allows us to remember it much more clearly than if we were to rely on sight or

sound alone. 3or e)ample, try reading your lesson aloud. !n doing this, your eye takes

on the appearance of the printed word, your ear passes the sound of the words to your

brain, and even the tension of the muscles of your throat add their bit to the total

impression which your mind is e)pected to store away.

. Try to visuali+e it. 6ither remember a diagram or a picture of the material to be

remembered, or take short notes about it, which help you to visuali+e.

%. !ntend to remember. The mere intention to remember puts the mind in a condition to

remember, and if you will make use of this fact in studying you will be able to recall

between 9# and A# percent more of what you read and hear than you would if you

were not actively trying to remember.

A. Think about it. - fact doesn8t belong to you until you have used it. !n making use of

this principle, plan to spend not more than one$half of your study period in readingyour lesson. se the other half in doing something with what you learn. Think about

what you have studied, write down notes on it, and e)plain it to somebody else.

B. 5ogical memory. Cne of the most important of all aids to the remembering process is

the habit of associating a new idea immediately with facts or ideas that already firmly

lodged in your mind. This association revives, and strengthens the old memories and

prevents the new one from slipping away by anchoring it to the well$established

framework of your mental world.

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. 'emembering by brute force. ?e will forget more, on the average, during the first

hour after learning than during the ne)t 9 hours; and we will forget more, on the

average, during the first day than we will during the ne)t thirty days. ?hatever is left

after thirty days time, we will probably be able to hold on to without much further

loss for years to come.

@. 'eviewing is much more effective if carried out before memories have entirely

escaped than it is after considerable time has elapsed. 'epetitions should be strung out

over as long a time as is available. ?e remember better if we pause a little between

periods of study.

#. =ow much to study Eou should study more than 7ust enough to learn your

assignment. 6)periments have proven that %#F more study resulted in %#F better

retention. -fter a week had passed, it was found that e)tra work had salvaged si)

times as much of the material as in the case when it was barely learned.

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!-0 QUESTION !

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The development of technology in today proves the effectiveness of the learning

process before. in line with the country8s education system has also progressed with the

introduction of self$learning system called my456. This self$learning process is seen as a

new shift in the education system because of several factors which we will discuss on the

matter arise.

The first factor is the ease of access to information. 0y using my456, ! was able to

get the information easily at the fingertips easily as access to a virtual library that is contained

in this system. 0y using this virtual library ! can access the latest information for studies and

my 7ob. -ccording to (tella Gottrell and 2eil *orris9#9, !t also helps in studying and also

obtain these &uestions from past year that there are in the virtual library. =ence my use of the456 has helped me not only to get information but also provide e)perience in answering the

&uestions last year.

!n addition, the use of my456 in can help me in closing the gap between lecturers

and students. ! can e)change information and views with the lecturer on the course and

assignments through the column forum appearing in my456. not only that, ! also can share

information with colleagues in respect of tasks assigned by the lecturer. as well as discuss the

virtual assignment.

The last factor is the cost and time saving. with my456, ! can communicate directly

with faculty and colleagues through cyberspace in forum discussions. This also have been

discuss by 0in Hou, *in7ie Iing, et al9#". This not only helped me in learning, but also to

save time and cost me. Jenerally, we note that we were burden through all of our

commitment. -s a teacher who is also a student of the same time, the need to ma)imi+e time

and minimi+e costs should also be taken into account. Therefore, using this my456 veryhelpful and lighten my load.

!n conclusion, based on the argument that given the proof of use my456 in learning

has provided many positive effects. -nd to assist me in carrying out my responsibilities as a

student with effective and efficient.

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