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Learning to Learn: Unit 3
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Learning objectives
What is the Multiple Intelligences Theory?
What are the different ways in which I could
be smart and talented?
How do I use my memory?
What is short-term and long-term memory?
What are some techniques I can use to
become better at remembering things?
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What is ‘intelligence’?
What do you think people who are intelligent are like?
What do they do?
How do they act?
How do you know they’re smart?
It used to be that intelligence
was measured by how well
a person did in school.
But as people began to understand
more about how the mind works,
they began to realize that there
are actually many different ways
in which people are intelligent.
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The Multiple Intelligences Theory
In 1983, a professor named Howard Gardner developed the
Multiple Intelligences Theory.
Gardner realized that some people are better at
understanding certain things than others.
For example, some people
might be really good at
painting, but find playing
musical instruments difficult.
Others might be really
talented at music but not
very talented at sports.
The Multiple Intelligences Theory identifies eight
different ways in which people can be intelligent.
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The eight types of intelligence
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What is your strongest intelligence?
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What are the eight types of intelligence?
Most people have varying strengths and combinations of the
eight different intelligences.
What do you think David Beckham’s
strongest intelligence is?
Recognizing and making use of your
naturally strongest intelligences is
key to helping you become a happy
and successful learner.
Knowing where your intellectual strengths lie can also
help you to work out what job you might like to do when
you’re older!
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Intelligence types and learning styles
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Memory
Knowing about the ways in which you learn best can help
you to develop and improve your memory.
Our memory is our ability
to store, retain and recall
information that we have
learned or experienced.
Memory is essential not
only in revising for tests,
but in performing jobs and
managing our daily lives.
What are some of the things you had to use
your memory for yesterday?
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Where are memories stored?
There are two basic types of memory: short-term memory
and long-term memory.
These different types of memory are stored in different
parts of the brain.
Short-term memory
Long-term memory
is stored here, in
is stored here, in
the temporal lobe.
the frontal lobe.
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Long-term memory
Long-term memory stores information for a few days, or for
many decades.
Your long-term memory stores:
information about your friends
and family
knowledge and facts learnt at
school
important or meaningful
experiences such as the first
time you learnt to ride a bike or
a film which you really liked.
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Short-term memory
Short-term memory stores information for a short period of
time – from a few seconds to a few hours.
Your short-term memory is what you use
when you are trying to remember:
the name of a person you’ve just met
a message you need to pass on to
someone
a new phone number you’ve just
looked up
items you need to get from the shop
two prices to compare on
different websites.
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How good is your short-term memory?
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What are mnemonics?
Mnemonics (pronounced ‘Ne-mon-iks’) are handy methods
and techniques to help us memorize information.
Here are some mnemonics you might know:
‘i’ before ‘e’ except after ‘c’
This is an example of a rhyme mnemonic,
used to help us remember a spelling rule.
Every Good Boy Deserves Fun
This is an acrostic, used to help us remember
the lines of the treble clef. The first letter of
each word in the verse spells out EGBDF.
ROY G BIV
This is an acronym to help us
remember the colour spectrum.
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Looking after your memory
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Tips for improving your memory
Here are some more tips for improving your memory and
retrieval capacity, so that you can become a better learner!
Say things you need to remember out loud to
yourself. This will help them to stick in your mind.
Involve as many senses as possible in your learning.
Try to relate information to colours, smells and tastes.
Teach a concept you need to learn to someone
else. This will improve your own ability to
understand and recall the concept.
Keep a positive attitude! If you tell yourself
that you want to, and can remember something,
it is more likely that you will remember it!
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What have you learnt?
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Useful websites
Find out what your strongest intelligence is in this
Multiple Intelligences test:
http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks
3/ict/multiple_int/questions/choose_lang.cfm
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Glossary
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