Study skills
My thoughts on the three videos i have watched.
My name is Robert Finegan, and I am giving my thoughts on the three videos that I have watched for week 3. The first video was about how to study by a YouTube channel named Mike and Matty. The video is by mike, who explains that he is a doctor in California and has a few easy ways to study using some of the methods that he uses still today. Mike breaks these methods down into three ways such as quizzing yourself, spacing and mixing.
He gives out perfect examples of the three strategies. For quizzing, he says it's testing yourself and making sure to practice every day. For instance, to become a good musician, you would need to practice playing an instrument same thing applies to sports. He says the best way to study is to have a routine going for yourself, not to learn for 5 hours or more but to break the hours down throughout the week. Mixing means mixing up your studies by not studying one at a time by mixing it up with different subjects. For me, I wouldn't say I like learning. I didn't really like reading big textbooks or carrying them around in my bag. I wanted to take notes in small notebooks, not big hardback notebooks, which I'm glad that technology has caught up with note-taking, seeing as it made it easy to do, seeing as I carry an iPad to write down all my notes using GoodNotes 5 and it is on the go. I have enjoyed the video. I will try this method mainly because I like what I'm doing and like to see how I get on. I am going to keep track of this YouTube channel seeing as I wanted the methods he does. He also has made an app called Remnote which is a note taking app but has flash cards for quizzes, to learn and to stay organised which I like doing and its something that i am interested in.
The second video was all about five active reading strategies: a YouTube channel named Thomas Frank. In the video, he explains pseudo skimming, which is skimming past paragraphs to look for the section containing the critical information needed. Reading backwards can help by looking at the later chapters and getting a feel on what they want you to learn, coming up with questions using a subheading, looking out for formatting text like bold text, and highlighting while taking notes.
I found this video to be beneficial mainly because of the pseudo skimming method. I never knew about that, and I’m glad that I know it now, mainly because I will be using this method for studying from now on. I have used the other methods before, like highlighting notes, paying close attention to bold text and finally looking at later chapters or reading backwards as Frank Thomas had mentioned. As for the subtext question, I did not know about that either, and I will use that too.
The final video is about a critical thinker named Andrea Quijada, who is on a ted talk describing deconstructing media. She talks about her early life on how she did not own a television, and her parents gave her a lesson about advertisements. For instance, she saw an ad about a man giving a woman a large diamond ring, basically telling you that this couple will live a good life. Her father turned to her and said,“I don’t like your mother because I did not give her a diamond ring,” implying a joke. That taught Andrea media could be decoded.
For this, I did not find this video helpful at all. Mainly ill be honest, I have no idea what she was on about or how it would have helped me at all. All I got from that was that she grew up with her parents that knew all about deconstructing media and taught her at a young age how to deconstruct advertisements or posters etc. It is all I got from that.
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