Get thinking You have a school bag that is 45cm long, 18cm wide and 30cm high. If you put them in carefully one at a time, how many standard paperback books can you place in the empty bag? Only one after that it is not empty Why is it that a man living in Cambridge can never be buried in Oxford? He is not dead Name 4 things you cannot eat for breakfast? Lunch, tea, dinner and supper Even if you have never been to France you should be able to say what is in the centre of Paris? The letter R Two fathers and two sons went fishing. Each caught a fish but they landed only 3. How come? They were Grandfather, Father and Son Keep going!!! Here is a list of 4 words with something in common: Atom / Timid / Lesson / Handy / Could Willow join the list? Yes all the words contain a boys name To everyone’s amazement a swan was seen on the Mekong river. Where had it come from? An egg What do the following animals have in common: Bombay Duck, Guinea Pig, Silk Worm, and Firefly? None of them are what they appear. Bombay duck is a fish, Guinea Pig isn’t a pig. Silk worm is a caterpillar, Firefly is a beetle What is so fragile that you break it just by naming it? Silence Persistence and Effort There will have times during the lateral thinking puzzles where some of you will have given up and not had a go Some of you may have come up with alternative answers Success in the 6th form requires you to have a go and make the effort When you are faced with a challenge have a go Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard RESEARCH 1 4 Year-olds 4 year-olds were asked if they would like to redo a difficult jigsaw that they had been unable to solve. Fixed mindset group – said “No” Growth mindset group – said “Yes, please”. They kept choosing difficult ones until the figured them out. Source - Carol Dweck, Mindset (2006) Effort? A growth mindset puts in effort…because they consider that it pays off A fixed mindset avoids effort…prefers effortless success….because it ‘proves’ the fixed talent is there. MINDSETS AFFECT OUR MINDSET AFFECTS… effort Which of the following will effort have most impact? Revision Homework Independent study Attendance Punctuality Concentration in class Organisation Internal & external examinations Social skills Relationships Sport Leadership Study Skills Note Taking- Making the effort WHY IS NOTE TAKING IMPORTANT? The ability to pick out the key points from a book, article, lecture or presentation is essential for effective study Without effective note taking skills you will not be able to see the wood for the trees This skill will be particularly important at university where you will have to study on a more independent basis WHAT WILL GOOD NOTES ENABLE YOU TO DO? Focus your attention Help you to research for an essay or piece of coursework Help you to understand the original text better Help you to see the ‘big picture’ or how the parts of your work fit together Give you a sense of having achieved something Help you to memorise things you need to learn THE FIRST STAGE Where you can, highlight or underline key ideas in a text. A book may not be yours or you may not want to deface books of your own Be careful not to highlight too much. The point of good note-taking is to be selective and to focus on essentials E.g. Be careful not to highlight too much. The point of good note-taking is to be selective and to focus on essentials Highlighting focuses your attention on the text, makes you thinks about key concepts and issues NOTE TAKING Use your highlighting to make well set out notes Number and/or bullet point your notes Present them neatly and clearly Add your own comments or observations where appropriate Notes should be a simplified version of the original Quote directly where needed otherwise use your own words Present your notes in a way which suits you Use subheadings Highlight key concepts in your notes TYPES OF NOTES Conventional notes with sub-headings and key points written out Spider diagrams Mind-maps which show the connections between ideas Visual representation of ideas Use large A3 sheets to show the big picture for a topic or file cards, depending on which suits you REVISION NOTES When it comes to revision you cannot make a set of brief revision notes based on your full notes which focus on essential topics and sub-topics and the most important concepts you need to know Condensing your notes in this way is part of learning them This help you create orderliness at a higher level of your thinking Student Activity Identify THREE strategies that you might try out in future to take better notes 1 2 3 What Am I? A daily newspaper contains more than the average 17th century man or woman would have encountered in a lifetime. In the last 30 years mankind has produced more than in the previous 5,000. 2010 we have 1,200 exabytes of this in digital form… …an exabyte is 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 = 1 billion gigabytes = 1 million terabytes. You could drown in this…armbands will not help! INFORMATION Information Overload! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ia5FxoeFJWI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXFEBbPIEOI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LabqeJEOQyI Notes from Reading Annotate Highlight main points Make notes of own Add extra information Colour-coding Pictures and Diagrams Mind-maps Draw diagrams Flow charts Re-writing in own words Bullet points Summaries