Brain Friendly Revision

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Brain Friendly Revision

• Memory

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After 24 hours

• Without review
• 70 is lost

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Memory

• Immediate
• seconds ..passes to
• Short term or working memory 7 items . For
  30 seconds
• Long term memory
• visual, auditory, motor

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Multi-sensory Learning

• 5 senses learning channels
• Smell, touch, taste, sound and vision
• By taking information through all out senses, we
  can all make learning and remembering easier

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Make your learning stick

• Repeat within 24 hours
• Repeat again for 10 minutes at the end of
  the week
• Repeat again for 10 minutes two weeks later
• Repeat again for 10 minutes one month later
• Be successful!

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• Why do we forget?

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Check your memory

• Illustrate the effectiveness of simple memory
  techniques

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Key to successful revision

• Imagination
• - visualisation
• - positive and pleasant images
• Association
• - exaggeration and humour
• - linking new to old
• Narrative
• - sequence and order

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Using the body to remember

• How many can you remember?

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Our brains love colour!

• Posters
• Post-it notes
• Mind maps
• Highlighting
• Cartoons
• pictures