EDU 1020-505

SLCC Online
Goldie Spira
Final Mind Map
April 25, 2019
Chapter 1
 Although the subjects
may not seem applicable
to your declared major,
The focus is on
at the very least it shows
process rather
you are knowledgeable
than content
in many different areas

Interdisciplinary
Higher Learning Courses

Freshman
Orientation
Institutional
3 Requirements Reconnaissance
of Self

Community college vs.

University: smaller so
1. Self-Awareness professors are more attentive
2. Self-Direction and available, significantly
3. Self-Advocacy cheaper tuition, can only get
an Associates or the highest a
Bachelor’s Degree.
 Must be familiar and comfortable
The syllabus is your contract
with technology, and you are on top
for the course, which outlines
of your deadlines. Also, it requires
things such as the professor’s
patience on the students’ part to get
expectations, college policies
a response back from a professor
and due dates
over email.

Taking Online The Course

Classes Syllabus

Main difference between

teacher and It is a compilation
professor-teacher takes of work that a
classes in giving over the Professional Freshman The Learning
student has done,
material, while Reconnaissance Orientation Portfolio
and it is used to
professor teaches showcase their
without focusing on the accomplishments.
process mastery

The degree The Importance Make the Most of Human resources are
you earn will of Accreditation Every Resource the best resources
be only as (e.g.-the librarians are
respectable as a better resource since
the institution they know where to
from which find the book you
you earn it. need.)
Chapter 2
 Thought-expenditure of
energy
Internal Locus of
Control-the Locus of
decisions you Control
make have a large
bearing on the
results of your
efforts
Attitude Versus
Thinking

Attitude is
Everything
Eliminate Busy
Work
Nothing is
pointless or
without value
unless we make
it so

Attitude and Stress

Shift the
Paradigm You must use
metacognition to
constantly monitor your
Catch Your Own stressors
Fish
 Higher learning is a set of
relative processes, not a
content.

There is no best,
only better than.
There is more
than one answer Make the Commitment to
to every Relativity
question. Stop Thinking
in Absolutes
Everything
is Relative

Higher Learning is All

About Relating
To the dualistic Transcend Dualism
student, all is black
or white, right or
wrong, this or that. All learning begins with
experience
 You must own the responsibility of
personalizing your learning

“We cannot
learn without
pain”
-Aristotle
What is He
Looking For?

Ownership is
the Key
Expanding Your Comfort Zone

Owning is Caring

You will not

fully learn
until you
care
Chapter 3
 Summarizing-to
condense a body of
thought
Paraphrasing-clarifi
cation by using your
Summarizing, own words
The act of taking
Paraphrasing -When marking up
notes requires you
and Marking a book, highlight
to think about what
Up a Book one sentence per
is being said on a
paragraph
higher level than
that demonstrated Taking
through mere recall
Fundamentals Effective
Notes

Formalized
Effective note-taking Note-Taking
begins with Systems
readiness-one hand
on notepad, other
hand writing The Cornell Note Taking
implement touching System and Mind
the notepad Mapping
Chapter 4
If you are working
full time, it would When your
be wisest to take schedule changes
only a part-time unexpectedly, you
course load will need to learn
to improvise and
prioritize.
Balancing Your Conflicts
Time

Managing
Time Create a list of your daily
activities, and then
Personal Life prioritize them. Then
create a daily schedule.
Then look at the schedule
and see how you can
3 Categories of
further utilize your time.
1. Work Activities
2. School
3. Personal
 While you can
coordinate (walk and
chew gum), you cannot
effectively engage in
simultaneous activities
that each require
cognitive thinking.

Multitasking
Expect the
unexpected,
Procrastination
and work
and plan
ahead.
Managing Goal seeting is a
The Role of Goal motivational
Time Setting in Time management strategy as
Management well as a helpful time
management tool.

Real Time vs.

Just as your Perceived Time
perception of time On to Disneyland?
relates to what you are Plan your
doing, your attitude vacations around
toward what you do work and school
relates to your obligations.
productivity
Chapter 5
 A.k.a. Conceptual
knowledge, which is
Mere knowledge formed by seeing
is like trivia meaning in what we
(e.g.-Collect, know
Match, Name, Comprehension (e.g.-Differentiate,
Select) Explain, Describe)
Knowledge

1. Knowledge Foundations of
2. Comprehension Higher Learning Being able to do
Process Order Application
3. Application something using our
of Progression
4. Analysis conceptual knowledge
5. Synthesis (e.g.-Apply,
6. Evaluation Demonstrate, Operate)

Cognitive
Domain Analysis

Involves things Further examining

like intellect, your applied
ideas, conceptual knowledge
reasoning (e.g.- Analyze, Infer,
Relate)
 1. Receiving
2. Responding Controls the mind’s
3. Valuing ability to use bodily
4. Organizing Affective Domain actions to effectively
5. Characterizing Psychomotor use tools for learning
Domain

Being mindful of
everything that has Foundation Your domains need
happened and is No Domain
intellectually honest
Evaluation of Higher Stands Alone to work together
to itself (e.g.- Learning
Criticize, Judge,
Validate)
When the learner and
Bloom’s
educator are pursuing
Taxonomy
Synthesis the same goal, you are
a.k.a being better to reach the
creative. Approach outcomes of a higher
applied knowledge learner.
in a different way
(e.g.-Design,
Revise, Invent)
 4 distinct stages of learning:
experience, comprehension,
application and reflection
Adaptive learning-basic
There are more learning
learning styles than Adaptive Learning-higher
just auditory, visual learning, where you apply
and kinesthetic. what you have learned
Learning Styles
The Adult
Learning Cycle

Figure out what or Foundation

who you are, label Personalities and
yourself, and Higher Learning of Higher Knowledge Has
Knowledge is only the most
higher learning will Learning A Shelf Life
basic level of cognition.
be a part of you (Knowledge is to thought
like bone is to muscle)
Our ever-evolving bases of
knowledge are the buibling
Intelligence blocks to thinking, which is
what higher learning is all
about.

People can be intelligent in

different ways, such as
musically-rhythmic and
verbal-linguistic.
Chapter 6
 Approaches to
Descriptive and Motivational
Prescriptive Management
Maslow’s
Hierarchy of
Needs

Motivation Descriptive Models

Drive-
What Is Hindrance
Motivation is Motivation? Model
desire in motion
 1) Drive constantly
motivates our
humanistic growth
from birth to death

“Be all that 2)This intrinsic

you can be!” motivating force
-represents must occasionally
the natural get past or through
drive to
Maslow’s Descriptive Drive-Hindrance
one or another
Hierarchy of Models hindrance
self-actualize Model
Needs

1)Obstructions-right there in plain sight

Deficit Needs: as the layer of hindrance nearest the
1)Self-Actualization surface
2)Esteem Needs 2)Distractions-misdirects and dilutes our
3)Belongingness and love thoughts
needs 3)Inhibitions-hindering thoughts, feelings
4)Safety Needs or attitudes
5)Physiological Needs 4)Drive
 Set short-term
Operant Prescriptive goals that will
conditioning Conditioning Goal Setting help you to
and classical Models reach your
conditioning long-term
goals
Chapter 7
 Procedural memory
Episodic- a mental cannot otherwise be put
reenactment from an into words. It is often
event you have the product of
experienced in your life declarative memory
Semantic- The memory
we use to store and Procedural
retrieve completed Episodic/Semantic Memory vs.
thoughts etc. Memory Declarative
Memory

The process whereby

we deliberately
It can be described, encode information
explained, or Declarative Memory Memorization for the express
otherwise put into Memory purpose of later
words. decoding it

Long-Term/Short-
Mnemonics Methods of attaching
Term Memory
recall to memorizing
information, like singing,
The function of storage and retrieval of word associations and
information; short-term memory is acronyms
when we actively do something with
that information
Chapter 8

It is not making
something out of
nothing
It is when we put
together past
experiences to
uniquely express
ourselves or to solve
unsolved probems

Inductive
reasoning- the
search for truth Creativity

Change your
Two types of Your perspective-
reasoning Attitude allow yourself
Critical Affects Your to “think
Deductive Thinking Creativity outside the
reasoning-testing box”
and proving that (sometimes
truth literally).

Meta-Cognition

Thinking about
our own thinking
Chapter 9
 Words that tell you
to what degree
something occurs
● 2 negatives cancel each (e.g.-at no time, no
other out one) Absolute
1. Read the statement modifiers-words/phrases
2. Count and underline all that set up an all or
negatives nothing situation (e.g.-all,
3. Always eliminate higest True or False every)
number of negatives Multiple Choice
4. Read the statement again Question
and decide if it’s true or
false
In-between
Testing modifiers-words/phrases
Modifiers that are less limiting-leave
room for exception
Complete ownership of Test Preparation (e.g.-few, many, often,
the material
sometimes, likely, usually)

1. You haven’t taken Relationship

Test Anxiety clues-words/phrases that
ownership of the
material show you if a sentence has
2. You don’t 2 relating clauses
understand the (e.g.-increases and
purpose and nature decreases, produce, so, so
of the testing that, because)
instrument
Chapter 10
● Topic- “What is this
● Highlight key passages,
about?”
using one color for the main
● Reading outline- skim
points and different colors
the material and make
for various types of details.
outline questions
● Marginal notes-summarize
● Answer the questions
sections and paraphrase
by using the details
● Write your reactions of the
Break It Note Taking material
Down and Reading

Approach learning
opportunities with Words in themselves have
Question
interest. If you
Everything
Active no meaning, but the
don’t have any The Meaning meaning is based on a
question, come up
Reading of Words consensus of how the word
with some. is being used at the time

How Written
Form a Ideas are
In order to fully Partnership Organized Inferential reading-
participate in your when you need to pull
reading, carry a together supporting
conversation with ideas to infer the main
the author aloud idea.
 Get a feel in
order to form a
partnership
with the author

Skim Before
Reading Don’t be too
You need to be able
focused on the
to derive meaning
details or else
from the author’s
you risk missing
words in a textbook
Understand the point
Active
What You See the Forest
Reading
Read

Consider the context of

the sentence to help you Context While fast reading may
to better understand. Shapes Speed Reading be advantageous, the
Otherwise, you run the Meaning advantages of reading
risk of “missing the well are far greater.
point” of the material
 The SQ3R, SQ4R
and SQ5R Systems
were not great
systems, so a new
one was developed.

Reading with a
System

Physical Sciences-
“hard sciences” Survey,
Enter the Next
Social Sciences- “soft Reading Across Question,
Active Generation
sciences” the Disciplines Read, Reflect,
Reading Reading System:
Humanities- human Record.
SQVR
culture Recite, Review
Chapter 11
 Consider your
audience and aim Make an effecti
to impress them. ve argument by
Cite your sources presenting it in
and prepare a a way that
bibliography. follows valid
Research Writing to reasoning
Paper Persuade

Envision your topic and

write until you can’t
anymore, and then Freewriting Writing to
categorize your thoughts
Writing Entertain Include irony,
into main ideas and sarcasm, or
supporting details various forms of
wordplay or
self-deprecation
Avoiding
Writing for
Ambiguity in
Discovery
Writing

Set up an external dialogue

between two or more Constantly monitor
characters your choice of words
Chapter 12
 You need to
know what kind
of audience you
are speaking to

Audience
In order to feel
Most of the time, the confident in your
same as a written presentation, you
How Should I
paper with an Material learn all that there
Organize It? Public
introduction, etc. is to know about
with maybe a Q & A Speaking the subject matter.
session at the end.

Purpose
Nothing in learning Methods Whether you are using
shows more strongly PowerPoint,videos
that you know the presentations, or using
material than if you props, be prepared and
can teach it to practice a lot beforehand to
others avoid potentially
embarrassing situations.
● Be in the
moment
● own it Tips for Enjoy your
● keep their Effective
Public Have Fun presentation, and
attention Presentations Speaking your audience will
● get them enjoy it too.
involved
● manage your
time