Activity 1
Complete the table below to identify and reflect on those factors and plan actions for each.
| Recognition/ Reflection |
Action |
| What helps my learning? |
How can I utilise this? |
| Discussing the topic with others |
- Set up a study group of like-minded peers
- Engage with the online community
|
| Using colours for key words in notes |
- Rewrite notes in spare time to ensure they are clear
- Make posters etc. and place around my room to subconsciously engage with Education
|
| Getting alternative perspectives |
- Set up a study group
- Listen and note ideas of others to then consider and/or criticize
|
| Visual representations of topics |
- Search the internet for visual representations of subjects, such as YouTube
- create my own pictorial notes of topics
|
| Rereading |
- Read relevant books/chapters more than once in order to reinforce knowledge
|
| Sport |
- Engage with sporting activities such as the gym and football to release positive hormones and endorphins.
|
| Planning |
- Create a timetable for myself of lectures, tutorials, study time, and sport time to ensure good time management.
|
| Recognition/Reflection |
Action |
| What hinders my learning? |
How can I address this factor? |
| I’m easily distracted |
- Study in a place where distractions are minimal
- Read lecture notes before the lecture and then take notes lectures to keep me focused
|
| Motivation |
- Engage with sport to increase positive hormones thus giving me more motivation
- Set personal goals, and rewards for achieving those goals
|
| Social functions |
- Be sure to only engage with social functions after due work is complete
- Use social functions as a reward for completing work
|
| Independence |
- Create a day to day plan of activities to ensure I do all tasks needed throughout the day without getting distracted
|
| Illness |
|
| Sport |
- Do not participate in sport if deadlines are not met or if sufficient work has not been completed
|
| The internet |
- set limits on how much internet I use for pleasure purposes such as Netflix to ensure work is completed
|
| |
|
|
