Renaissance Learning And Unlocking Your Potential

Question 0

Imposter syndrome

Answer 0

The state of believing that one is far more incompetent than they are, or not the genius everyone thinks they are. A common state among fairly gifted individuals

Question 1

Creating Lively Visual Metaphors or Analogies

Answer 1

A tool that can be used to make learning stickier by engaging more aspects of memory or connecting chunks eg. Electricity is like flowing water and voltage is like the pressure of the water. Can be useful to overcome einstellung or learning blockages by recontextualizing the problem.

Question 2

Myelin sheathe

Answer 2

The fatty insulation that helps signals move more quickly along a neuron. Don’t finish developing until people are in their 20s in some cases. Maybe explain why teenagers act impulsively
Learning helps build these sheaths

Question 3

Right hemisphere

Answer 3

Big picture-thinking; helps connect chunks and facilitate a-ha moments; contextual thinking. Acts as a devils advocate and questions the status quo

Question 4

Left brain

Answer 4

Focused on developing concepts and resists change. Likes to keep things static.provides an analytical approach but can lead to rigidity, dogmatism.

Question 5

How to optimize learning to maximize left-brain and right-brain thinking

Answer 5

Study intensely in focused mode, using left brain, take a break for the diffused mode to activate and then check answers manually using right-brain contextual thinking

Question 6

Richard Felder’s pre-test checklist

Answer 6

1. Did you make a serious effort to understand the text?
2. Did you work with classmates on homework problems or at least check answers with others?
3. Did you outline every homework solution before working with others?
4. Did you participate actively in homework group discussion?
5. Did you consult with the instructor when having trouble?
6. Did you understand ALL of your homework problem solutions?
7. Did you ask in class for homework problem explanations when you were unsure of the answer?
8. If there was a study guide, did you carefully review it and answer all questions to understanding?
9. Did you attempt to speed trial answers to questions to demonstrate rapid understanding
10. Did you go over the study guide problems with others and quiz each other?
11. If there was a review session did you attend and ask questions?
12. Did you get a reasonable night’s sleep?

Question 7

Hard-start-jump to easy technique

Answer 7

A test-taking strategy

1. Look over the whole test to get an idea of it’s entirety
2. Start with the hardest question, but pull away in the first couple of minutes if you have trouble, this will start your diffuse mode of thinking
3. Go to an easy problem
4. Return to a difficult problem and repeat step 2, then repeat

Question 8

Day before a test

Answer 8

Lightly review all concepts, perhaps using queue cards, to refresh and consolidate