SoulChimes

Active Reading

Consider the following points for Active Reading and Listening * Before starting, consider what you hope to learn * Visualize through association what you are learning as you are reading or listening * Take creative notes * Don’t read the sections you don’t care abo...

Using Metaphors

Analogies and metaphors can be an effective way to help map familiar relationships with one to a new concept. Analogies not only help the learner understand the structure of new concept in terms of what he or she already knows, they can help draw attention to key features and conceptual boundaries of the new concept being learned. Analogies can also be motivating by increasing the learner’s belief that the new concept is something they can master, as the analogy makes it feel like something they have already mastered.
Use multiple analogies or metaphors to describe the same thing
This can reveal how the deeper conceptual structures persist across differing surface features and help the learner un...

Thought for the journal

Prompt #1

Think back on the articles read recently and bring to mind the single most personally striking material. Take a couple of minutes to recollect and describe in your own words the interesting points.

Personal

Knowledge

Management