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
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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
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4 year-olds were asked if they would like to redo a
difficult jigsaw that they had been unable to solve.
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Fixed mindset group – said “No”
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Growth mindset group – said “Yes, please”.
They kept choosing difficult ones until the figured
them out.
Source - Carol Dweck, Mindset (2006)
Effort?
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growth mindset puts in
effort…because they consider that it pays
off
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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?
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The ability to pick out the key points from a book, article, lecture or
presentation is essential for effective study
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Without effective note taking skills you will not be able to see the
wood for the trees
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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?
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Focus your attention
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Help you to research for an
essay or piece of coursework
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Help you to understand the
original text better
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Help you to see the ‘big
picture’ or how the parts of
your work fit together
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Give you a sense of having
achieved something
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Help you to memorise things
you need to learn
THE FIRST STAGE
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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
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Be careful not to highlight too much. The point of good note-taking is
to be selective and to focus on essentials
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E.g. Be careful not to highlight too much. The point of good note-taking is to
be selective and to focus on essentials
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Highlighting focuses your attention on the text, makes you thinks about key
concepts and issues
NOTE TAKING
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Use your highlighting to
make well set out notes
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Number and/or bullet point
your notes
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Present them neatly and
clearly
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Add your own comments or
observations where
appropriate
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Notes should be a simplified
version of the original
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Quote directly where needed
otherwise use your own
words
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Present your notes in a way
which suits you
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Use subheadings
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Highlight key concepts in
your notes
TYPES OF NOTES
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Conventional notes with
sub-headings and key
points written out
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Spider diagrams
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Mind-maps which show the
connections between ideas
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Visual representation of
ideas
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Use large A3 sheets to
show the big picture for a
topic or file cards,
depending on which suits
you
REVISION NOTES
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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
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Condensing your notes in this way is part of learning them
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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
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2
3
What Am I?
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A daily newspaper contains more than
the average 17th century man or woman
would have encountered in a lifetime.
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In the last 30 years mankind has
produced more than in the previous
5,000.
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2010 we have 1,200 exabytes of this in
digital form…
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…an exabyte is 1,000,000,000,000,000,000
= 1 billion gigabytes = 1 million terabytes.
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You could drown in this…armbands will
not help!
INFORMATION
Information Overload!
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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