- Managing My Learning
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? |
| Example: “Discussing the topic with others” | · Set up a study group of like-minded peers
· Engage with the online community |
| Researching the topic | · Discuss the topic with like-minded students.
· Go online and look into the topic. · Reading extra notes on the topic. |
| Organising and having clear notes | · Have one notebook that has quick scribbles for lectures and then another for clear and concise that you have put into your own words and made sense of. |
| Writing things out in my own words | · After each lecture write a reflection of what I took from it.
· Re-write lecture notes in another notebook |
| Limiting the amount of background noise | · Listen to music that is good for studying.
· Put headphones in. · Work in silence |
| Recognition/Reflection | Action | |
| What hinders my learning? | How can I address this factor? | |
| Example: “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 |
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| I procrastinate | · Study in a place with minimal distractions.
· Make a studying timetable that has set times for breaks. |
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| Being distracted by my phone or social media. | · Turn off the notifications.
· Put it upside down on the other side of the room · Do not have it right next to me. |
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| Leaving things to the last minute | · Make sure I make a plan of when I am going to do the work and stick to it.
· Make sure that my work is at the top of my priorities. |
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| Agreeing to go out instead of doing work | · Use going out as a reward for completing work.
· Have definite and set aside times of spending with friends · Stick to work timetables so I can go out at night |
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