Trying to memorize a lot of information is not only stressful, it’s impossible. But what do you do when you are faced with a chapter that has 80 pages of new vocabulary and concepts. I have three words for you: reduce, reuse, and recycle. You are never going to learn the content material if you are bored while you study. It’s time to invite all your neurons and dendrites to a brain party. Mature readers know the mind pays attention to new stimulus, or input. There is a part of your brain called the midbrain that controls motivation. The midbrain is a wild and crazy risk-taker. If you look at the same old notes over and over again, your midbrain will say, “Yeah, yeah, been there, done that. I’m bored. Let’s go check out something new on the Internet!” This means you will have to do something different, something new, and something novel with the content you are studying. That something needs to be motivating, interesting, and something you want to practice every day. RELAXing after you read is all about taking your social life activities and infusing them with academic studying.
By this point you are becoming automatic with FLIRT and DRIVE, but what do you do with all these post-it notes? RELAX offers several ways to organize and condense your thoughts, notes, and new text information onto one sheet of paper. This makes studying fast, easy, and convenient.
Sure, you now know how to stay focused while you read. You take breaks when you need to, you talk to the text with margin notes and you make connections. However these steps only help to get the important information into your brain. They do not organize and transfer the new information into long-term memory. Simply by interpreting the author’s message in creative ways, you are putting a strong hold on the new information you just added to your schema. If you do not take this final step to help your mind RELAX, your brain will discard, or get rid of the new information. As a result, the hour you spent reading the chapter has now been a waste.
BREAKING IT DOWN
To relax, means, “to rest, unwind, and release from mental strain.” As a reader, you are taking a rest from interacting with the text so your mind is able to connect the dots of individual details into a wider, clearer, and unique new perspective. When you open the doors of your mind for review, rehearsal, and reflection, you are able to share what you learned with others. Since there are five different steps your mind must go through when RELAXing with the text I created an acronym to help you remember them. An acronym, means each letter in RELAX represents a cognitive step:
R: Reduce the Author’s Message
E: Extend Your Learning
L: Link Old and New Information
A: Answer the Question
X: Xperiment with Study Strategies
Remember, you don’t want to cram for a test and be smart for one day. You want to RELAX and be smart for a lifetime!
would put this into the two words:
ReplyDeleteWhy relax
I will need to remember:
1. Relax-to rest, unwind, and release from mental stress.
2. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
♥ Latifah Pittman ♥
I would put this into two words:
ReplyDeleteMidbrain and Creativity.
And I would remember this by
1. Do something new, different, and novel.
2. Condense thoughts into one page.
Andrew Thompon Section 1
R.E.L.A.X
ReplyDelete1.reduce reuse recycle
2.fast studying
Two words:
ReplyDeleteMemory and impossible.
I will remember:
1.reduce, reuse, and recycle
2.Relax
Mike Forstoffer
Two words:
ReplyDeleteMidbrain and Relax.
1.Reduce and Recycle.
2.Relax.
Must Relax
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Flirt/Drive
Relax
Pete Floyd
Just Relax
ReplyDeleteI will remember
1.)To reduce what i have read so i have a better chance of remembering the text better.
2.)
Try to do new things to keep my brain intrested so i wont get bored and be able to read.
Tyler Adcock-sec. 1
calm down
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1) take things slow and dont try to just read super fast
2)experiment with different studying styles
so the above thing from josh is from me (katie bricker section 1) was because my friend used my laptop to sign into google and i guess it stayed there.
ReplyDeleteTwo words to sum this up:
ReplyDeleteRelax Reading
I will remeber:
1)To reduce, reuse, and recycle
2)Pay attention to the stimulus or input
David Crisfield
I will remember
ReplyDeleteRELAX New
1. Take breaks
2. Don't cramp new information
Relax
ReplyDeleteI will remember
1.reduce, reuse, recycle
2.rest, unwind, and release from mental strain
Het Gandhi
Relax
ReplyDeleteI will remember:
1. Take breaks
2. Relax
Stay Relaxed
ReplyDeleteI will remember:
1) reduce the text so I can remember what I read easier.
2) try and use new studing techniques.
Reduce and quick
ReplyDelete1. after reading
2. fast
Logan Gurreri
Changing Ways
ReplyDelete1) Do something different to understand the authors message.
2) Just relax with reading.
Jake Carr
Relax and read
ReplyDelete1.Breakdown the text in smaller pieces so that it will be easier to grasp and receive the text.
2.Get into a quiet zone and read, focus only on the text.
Relax and read
ReplyDeleteTwo things i need to remember are:
1. Relaxing is studying
2. reduce, reuse, and recycle
Relax and release
ReplyDeleteI will remember:
-reduce, reuse, recycle.
-Interpret author's message creatively.
Adam Vetere section 2
would put this into the two words:
ReplyDeleteI will need to remember:
1. Relax
2. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Memory, Relax
ReplyDelete1. Relax with reading
2. Take breaks
-Ryan Althoff
three R's
ReplyDelete1. relax
2. experiment w styles for reading
ryan d
Read then Relax
ReplyDelete1. Read text
2. Reduce & summarize info.
Just Relax
ReplyDeleteI will remember:
1.) Take breaks
2.)experiment with styles of readings.
Abbie Forry
section2
Read & Relax
ReplyDeleteI will remember:
1. organize and condense my thoughts
2. interpret author's message with creative meaning
Read and relax
ReplyDelete1. take breaks
2. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Read and Relax:
ReplyDelete1. Take breaks
2. Be in a quite zone
2 words to summarize the author's message
ReplyDelete-relax
-break down
I will remember
-unwind
-release from mental strain
Relax and breaks
ReplyDelete1. Take short breaks often
2. Dont overload. little by little
Nourdean b
ReplyDeletei will remember....
ReplyDeleteReduce Reuse Recycle
breakdown the text
Dustin R. Wagnon