1. How We Really Learn
AP Literature
Mr. Vogel

2. Motivation Theory states that only you can motivate yourself.
Personal Value: The situation must be beneficial to you.
Future Goals: The situation must tie into your goals and plans.
Appropriate Situation: You must know what is expected of you in any situation.
How Likely is Success: You must see the possibility of being successful.
Motivation Theory

3. Perception and Emotional Blackmail
Perception: Everyone’s perception is his/her reality.
Emotional Blackmail: Blaming others for the emotions/feelings you experience.
“You made me sad!”
No F.E.A.R.: False Education Appearing Real
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: You will do what you think you can do.
Perception and Emotional Blackmail

4. We Know We’ve Learned When. . .
The Blank Tape: The human brain is like a tape recorder set on “record.” Everything we experience is potentially stored.
Network of Schemata: Schema are chunks of information. A schemata is a network of chunks/information.
We tend to remember the most recent/important, the most traumatic, and the most repeated areas of study/practice.
We Know We’ve Learned When. . .

5. Schemata Building We build schemata by having new experiences. Reading
Traveling
Meeting people
Obtaining information (news)
Eating
Learning a Language
Anything new will build schemata
Schemata Building

6. Information Processing Theory

7. Difficulties in Activation
No connections
Material only read/studied once
Lack of motivation (No personal value etc.)
Difficulties in Activation

8. Activation with Greater Ease
Have a meaningful connection
Practice
Have a linked motivation to learning experience
Activation with Greater Ease

9. Blooms Taxonomy: Levels of Learning
Knowledge
Comprehension
Application
Analysis
Synthesis
Evaluation
Blooms Taxonomy: Levels of Learning

10. Grammar: Knowledge and Application of rules allow us to write and speak appropriately.
Writing and Speech: We use language to Synthesize (create) our own ideas.
Literature: We Evaluate or make judgments about characters we read about. We make connections.
Areas Of English

11. English class is all about reading and writing
English class is all about reading and writing. It goes beyond reading and writing to include the activities we are most involved in: speaking and listening.
English Class

12. How Do I Study? Metacognition: Thinking about your thinking.
Having a plan for your learning and not just acting without thinking.
Reflect on every aspect of what needs to be accomplished.
Plan steps to accomplish it.
How Do I Study?

13. Want to Give Less than 100%? If we only gave 99%. . .
Power would go off 15 minutes every day.
An airline would lose luggage for two people every flight.
A magazine would have nine misspelled words on every page.
A major hospital would give new parents the wrong baby 28 times a year.
Want to Give Less than 100%?

14. Less than 100%? How about 99.9 percent effort?
You would have one hour of unsafe drinking water every month.
There would be two unsafe landings every day at major airports.
The U.S. Postal Service would lose 16,000 pieces of mail every day.
22,000 checks would be deducted from the wrong accounts every day.
20,000 incorrect drug prescriptions would be issued every year.
500 incorrect surgical operations would be performed every week.
Less than 100%?