Congratulations! You successfully finished reading a difficult section of text. Look back and admire all of your thinking. Can’t you feel your mind growing smarter and pulsing with pride? It’s time to reward yourself. Go ahead and send a text message to your mind. Chances are, the author already sent you the perfect text message through the text features and is patiently waiting for your reply.
Your mind is not like an email with unlimited space, it’s more like a text message. In 1985, Friedhelm Hittebrand, a communications researcher and creator of text messaging, discovered the average conversation transaction between two people needed about 160 characters when typed out on his typewriter. “Just look at your average e-mail today, he noted. Many can be summed up in the subject line, and the rest often contains just a line or two of text asking for a favor or updating about a particular project.” *
When sending a text message, is it easier to send a two word message or a whole paragraph? Two words of course! Reducing the author’s message helps your mind think faster by condensing the amount of information into two words and/or two sentences. Remember, it isn’t necessary to memorize everything the author wrote.
Mature readers alert their metacognition to search for repeated ideas and then assign a name for each group of ideas. Cognitive researchers call this type of mental process classifying. Classifying occurs when you pull together the main ideas and themes by choosing words/phrases that have similar meanings. Once the ideas are grouped, you can create a two word summary that classifies what the list of ideas has in common. These two word titles condense the text into more manageable chunks of information.
Step One: Reduce the information your mind needs to remember by condensing repeated ideas into two words and two ideas.
Step Two: Reuse the text features; titles, headings, captions, and bold words to help you generalize key ideas and reinforce information the author advertised at important.
Step Three: Recycle the phrases you highlighted or the thoughts you wrote down while talking to the text. Your metacognition alerted you that these words triggered your mind to react so keep using them to help you study.
The more you reduce, reuse, and recycle academic concepts, the faster and easier your mind will be able to learn new information. Satisfy your need for speed by sending two word text messages. Remember, when you have fun, the studying gets done.
Quote taken from a LA Times article entitled: Why Text Messages are only 160 Characters Link for article: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2009/05/invented-text-messaging.html
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