Adopting Lifelong Learning Chapter Seven

Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. 7 | 2 Adopting Lifelong Learning

Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. 7 | 3 Discovering Your Preferred Learning Style, Journal 23 Focus Questions –How does the human brain learn? –How can you use this knowledge to become a highly effective learner?

Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. 7 | 4 A Fish Story Most of us tend to look at things without really seeing what is there. In everyday life this lack of observation may not be noticed, but in science it would be considered a serious failing.

Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. 7 | 5 Right vs. Left? The concept of right brain and left brain thinking developed from the research in the late 1960s of an American psychobiologist Roger W Sperry. He discovered that the human brain has two very different ways of thinking.

Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. 7 | 6 Differences Between Left and Right Hemisphere Left side - left side of the brain is the seat of language and processes in a logical and sequential order. Right side - is more visual and processes intuitively, holistically, and randomly.

Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. 7 | 7 How the Human Brain Learns When potential learning stimulus occurs, some neurons, send out spikes of electricity activity that cause nearby neurons that fire together. To excel as a learner, create as many neural connections in your brain as possible.

Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. 7 | 8 Three Keys to Deep and Lasting Learning 1.Prior Learning – successful learning experience enhances present learning, by increasing motivation and research reveals that when you can connect what you are learning now to previously stored information, you learn faster. 2.Quality of Processing – how you study affects the strength of my neural networks and the quality of your learning. 3.Quantity of Processing – effects the quality of your learning by how often you engage in varied deep processing

Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. 7 | 9 Discovering Your Preferred Learning Style, Journal 24 Focus Questions –What is your preferred way of learning? –What can you do when your instructor doesn’t teach the way you prefer to learn?

Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. 7 | 10 Four Preferred Ways of Learning A) B) C) D) Thinking Learners Doing Learners Feeling Learners Innovating Learners

Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. 7 | 11 Learning to Make Course Corrections, Journal 25 Focus Questions –How can you recognize when you are off course? –More important, how can you get back on course?

Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. 7 | 12 Develop Self-Respect, Journal 26 Focus Questions –What is your present level of self-respect? –How can you raise your self-respect, and therefore your self-esteem, even higher?

Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. 7 | 13 Develop Self-Respect Self-Respect is the core belief that: I AM AN ADMIRABLE PERSON Self-confidence is the result of what I do, then self-respect is the result of how I do it.

Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. 7 | 14 Building up Self-Respect Live with Integrity- moral soundness, we create integrity when we chose words and deeds that are one with our values. Keep Commitments

Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. 7 | 15 How to Keep Commitments Make your agreements consciously. Use Creator language. Create a plan and carry it out. If a problem arises, renegotiate. Make your agreements important. 5.