You were Born to Learn!!!How’s your memory?

Your brain was born to learn, loves to learn, and knows how to learn.

You learn what you practice.Practice is making mistakes, correcting

mistakes, learning from them and trying over, again and again.

Making and learning from mistakes is a natural and necessary part of learning.

What is learning?

Learning (skill) = memory + understanding

Ability to recognize, recall, retain and store information. Enables

application of knowledge.

Fibers in my head?

You learn what you practice because when you are practicing, your brain is growing new fibers (dendrites) and connecting them at synapses.

This is what learning is.

Summarise & Extract key words

Mnemonics / Memory Devices

Acrostic Sentences

Work best if the sentence is silly, ridiculous creative and fun.

For example: The order of the planets away from the sun?

My Very Elegant Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas.

Example from Chemistry (an acrostic):

Holly Harrington Likes Beer But Cannot Now Obtain Food.

The elements 1-9 of the periodic table —

Hydrogen, Helium, Lithium, Beryllium, Boron, Carbon,

Nitrogen, Oxygen, Fluorine).

Use Acronyms for example:

PEMDAS in math class helps us remember the order of operations for Algebra:

Parentheses first, then Exponentsthen solve Multiplication and Division

from left to right then finally solve Addition and Subtraction from left to right.

Use Rhyming:

Examples: “ In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue.” “I before E except after C”

Try visualisation and association:

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