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Introduction to learning styles
Större mångfald
- How do you dock in new situations of learning?
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Introduction to learning styles
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LEARNING STYLES
TEACHING STYLES
- Am I unintelligent if I do not understand?
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Introduction to learning styles
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• What is the meaning of learning styles?
• The way you prefer to adapt the information and
  how to learn new difficult things
• Learning styles are also biological and personal
  quailities capable of development, which make
  people to understand the same instructions in
  different ways

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Introduction to learning styles
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• What is the meaning of learning styles?
• The way we prefer to do when we
• have to concentrate to adapt new and difficult
  information
• have to adapt the information
• want to change it into knowledge
• want to stock the knowledge
• want to use the knowledge again

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Introduction to learning styles
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• Why learning styles?
• To know there are different ways of learning
• Different people learn in different ways
  (Learning style)
• Teaching can be in different ways (Teaching
  style)
• To think in new ways self-insight!
• To know how you learn the best way
• To develop an understanding and confirmation on
  how you learn the best way
• To understand that people learn in different ways

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Introduction to learning styles
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• Does it suit everyone?
• We believe it is positive for everyone to think
  about their own learning style and analyse their
  own enviroment and how the person dock to
  different tutors, literature and situtions of
  learning
• Maybe you should just pick the good parts
• Sometimes you must change
  your preferences of your
  learning styles

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Learning styles
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• How can I use it?
• When I study (before, during, after)
• How I study
• Where I study
• With someone I study with

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Introduction to learning styles
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• Different learning styles to take into
  consideration
• Enviromental elements
• Emotional elements
• Social elements
• Physiological elements
• Other elements

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Be your own boss!
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About self-tuition and selfdiscipline
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Be your own boss!
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Do you suffer from procrastination?
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Be your own boss!
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Do you suffer from procrastination?
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Enjoy the freedom but dont let it seduce you..
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Working life

• Fixed hours of work and days off
• Manager who leads and allocates tasks

Study at university

• Few lectures and more self-tuition
• Flexible hours of work!

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Be your own boss!
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In the calendar
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Be your own boss!
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Importance of being clearly do a schudule
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- Write in the schedule, fixed and regular
activities (lessons, lectures, groupwork)
- But also make time for self-tuition!
- Rewards and days off
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The importance of clarity
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- Against yourself!
- Against your surroundings !
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How will you become more disciplined?
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How will you become more disciplined?
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The importance of clarity
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More than 90 of the goals established can not
be processed by the brain in the corrected way ,
because they are not enough specified och
detailed in terms of time quantity and
quality Björn Ringom
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Tip-offs for planning
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• Coordinate your week with others
• Do not overload your schedule prioritize and
• write down the most important activities
• Put the most boring activities early in the day?
• Plan your activities according to your diurnal
  
• rhythm
• Take a day off!

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Benefits
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• You will not waste any time or energy on
• thinking what to do.
• You will mimimize the risk of forgetting
• something.

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Habits will be performed automatically
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Marauders in your studies!?
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- What interrupts you the most in self-tuition?
- What can you do about it?
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To identify support to reach your goal
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Organisations/associations
Models
Places
People
Things
Educations/courses
Personal resources
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How to read literature
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How to read literature
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• Ask three questions
• Quick overview
• In-depth overview
• Planning your studies
• Intense reading
• Repetition

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How to read literature
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• Ask three questions
• How important is the material?
• Which knowledge do you have?
• Why must I read this book what is my goal?

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How to read literature
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• 2. Quick overview
• Book cover - foreword
• Table of contents
• Foreword
• Introduction
• Browse 4 sec/page- Get to know pictures,
  tables and headlines

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How to read literature
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• 3. In-depth overview
• Summeries
• First/last part of chapter
• Headlines (and look for answers)
• Pictures, tables and diagram texts
• Information boxes
• Highlighted text
• Exercises, questions

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How to read literture
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This is what you have done
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How to read literature
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• 4. Planning your studies
• Read the goals of the course
• What previous knowledge do you have?
• Make plans in the calendar
• Post-it notes with written dates inside the book

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How to read literature
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• 5. Intense reading
• Underline and highlight in different colours
• Make notes in the margin example 1, 2, 3
• Mark with red if you do not understand move on
• The book is your tool!
• Make notes on a separate paper
• Retell
• Old exams

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How to read literature
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6. Repetition
Repetition
Repetition
Repetition
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How to read literature
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Overview
Repetition
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Summary of the three principles
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Can anyone learn any foreign language?
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Summary
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Success in your studies will be determined by
1. Your attitude2. Your interest3. Your
motivation4. Your study discipline
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Summary
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Roger Sperry
Everyone can acquire the knowledge they wishes
We use normally less than 1 of our brain
capacity
There are no non-gifted people, just people with
different experiences
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Furthermore
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- You become what you eat!
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Enviromental elements
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Emotional elements
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Social elements
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Physiological elements
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Other elements
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Summary of the three principles
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Make plans - What to read- Enviroment-
Schedule -
What about your learningstyle?
Before
Make a general view
Be not afraid if you do not understand you will
understand!
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Summary of the three principles
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Before
During
Listen
Write down
Ask
Associate
Give a concrete form to
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Summary of the three principles
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Before
During
After
Re-create - All that goes in must come out!
Activate memories- repetition
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Summary of the three principles
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Before
During
After
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