MEMORY, LEARNING & CONCENTRATION

I felt so ecstatic attended to Miss Shamsinar Rahman's class on 16/6/2017 since it has been postponed since last week! All the while, students of RB2D only managed to liaise with her through Whats App Messenger.  I was really anxious to meet her in person. After the first meeting, I noticed that she is an easy-going person and beautiful. Trust me, she has flawless skin!

 The main topic of that day was about "Memory, Learning & Improving Concentration "- (Topic 4)

WHAT IS MEMORY LEARNING?

Learning and memory are closely related concepts. Learning is the acquisition of skill while memory is the expression of what you've acquired.  For your information, there are two type of student which are passive and participatory.

Passive students literally learn in four ways.

1. Lecture
2. Reading
3. Audio/Visual
4. Demonstration

For participatory there are 3 ways which are discussion group which affect 50%, practices by doing for 75% and the last one is teaching others which affect 90%! Okay, let me show you guys what is the difference between brain and memory. I guess some of you guys already know but yeah here it is;-

BRAIN	MEMORY
A physical place	Memory allows us to remember facts
	Consists of encoding, storing and retrieval
	Makes the information available for recall when we see or experience something
	Leaves a trace

LEARNING IS BEHAVIOR.

Learning is behavior which acquiring info, then memory is about storing it and learning is a process. COMPLETE! There are two types of memory. First, short term memory (STM) and the second one is Long term memory (LTM).

 

Guys, have you ever heard about massed practice and space practice? Well basically massed practice is defined as practice that occurs without rest between trials which is not good at all. Trust me you will not fully understand. This kind of practice make your memory get less information which is STM.

So, as a perfect student we must exercise the space practice. It is a learning strategy where practice is broken up into a number of short sessions and over a longer period of time. It will give us LTM. Or you can try another way such as elaboration. You can make it on your own creativity so that it will be more interesting. Examples;-

1. Associations
2. Acrostics or Acronyms 
3. Image (Mind mapping) 

In order to get a good result, we must set a goal, make a mind map, manage time properly and deal with any internal distraction.  We must remember, poor concentration can come from many aspects such as lack of interest, lack of motivation, personal problem and so on. So we must try our best to avoid it!

                                cr; google

I want to share with you guys a fun experience in Miss Shamsinar's class. We  played a few speed quizzes in her class but one that I really loved, was when we have to memorize 12 words in 20 seconds and we need to write it back. It was really chaotic since everyone wanted to get all right. Unfortunately, I only managed to get 8 out of 12. What a shame! But still okay rather than 0, isn't it?There are some words that I got right. Until today, I still can't recall what is the other 4. HAHA!

I thought it was really fun because we learnt in a fun way and comfortable environment!

10 minutes before the class ended, Miss Shamsinar asked all of us to sit together according to our assignment's group. She gave a briefing on how to do our assignment and yeah! She explained it really well. I love her so much!

GETTING READY TO LEARN

On 9th June 2017, I've attended my first class at Dewan Titiwangsa Uitm Raub, Pahang. To be honest, I was really excited to experience the class conducted by Dr Fauzi Azmi. The topic discussed was about 'Getting Ready to Learn(topic 1)'. What I've got on that day is the differences in school and univerity, the characteristics of successful students and how to use learning styles to enhance performance.

Here are some differences in school and university;-

• You spend less time in class
• More time for reading
• Fewer test
• You spend more time studying outside the class

Furthermore, in university you will be having a lot of group assignments. I personally think that each one of us have to choose the right person to work with. It will be a problem if one of them is actually a sleeping partner. I mean like, you have to do it all alone but at the end of the day, he or she will still get the name and mark. It's totally unfair though! Next, the lectures basically won't tell what's on the test. You have to struggle hardly in order to get flying colors, unless you're not a study person.

From Dr Fauzi Azmi's class also, I got to know the characteristics of successful students. Firstly, make a schedule or use a planner. From this, you can really fill up your ample time wisely. As a student, I'm pretty sure we are too busy with a lot of works. So by doing this, we can manage our time very well. Secondly, learn how to take good notes. So that it will be more interesting to read and memorize it. Thirdly, to attend every class and get to class early. Don't ever dare to skip class and please get enough sleep or else you'll be sleepy in class. Lastly make a master list of projects, assignments and exams. It will make us well prepared and everything will go smoothly.

Meanwhile, we also need to use our own learning styles to enhance performance and be on the race!