LARN 010 C3D2

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LARN 010 C3D2 Start the reading the following in class: Background Information: Have you ever found yourself rereading a passage of science textbook over and over again and realized that you still don't know what you are reading? Reading experts tell us that is because informational literature has no setting, characters, plot, setting, to imagine or connect with. Instead they say informational literature must be read actively and with purpose in order to not get bogged down and snowed by all the terminology. To read actively they suggest: [Survey or Preview:] To focus one's reading,  it is helpful to survey or preview what you will read to formulate a question to be answered by reading the previewed section. [Question:] You then write down the question, put your pen down and then force yourself to [Read:] read through the section with the single purpose of discovering the answer to that single question that you wrote down. [Record:] Then respond and record one's own understanding to...
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LARN 009 C3D1

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LARN 009 C3D1 Start the following in class: 1. Read the article on How the Brain Works and take Cornell notes on it.  On a page of your Learning Log you can draw perpendicular line segments to set up the Cornell note taking structure and then a. proceed to record a learning objective in a top section across the page; b. main ideas. new words, and/or questions in the column on the left side of your page, c. related points, notes, full sentence explanations, problem analysis and solutions, and answers to questions on the right side of your page opposite the main ideas, word, and/or questions you have recorded. d. Reflect on what you have written and the summarize the article with reference to the original learning objective in the section at the bottom of the page.  The connected prose summary should describe what is necessary and sufficient to meet the goal of the learning objective. 2.  Pick a few videos to broaden your understanding of how to...
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