Professor Chew Flaws

There are four points in Dr. Chews’ “Beliefs that make you stupid”. Some of these beliefs are; that you can learn fast, that if you memorize everything you will learn it, just because you don’t do well in something you think you will never succeed, and lastly when you think you are good at multitasking. Many times I try to memorize the facts to learn the material and I also like to multitask. There has been a few times where I have brought my study material to work so I could look at it in my spare time. Most of the time I don’t get time to look over anything at work because I never get spare time to stop and look at them because people are always coming in and I have to go take care of them.

After reading the article I want to change my study habits some. My goal is to implement the strategy previously mentioned. I think self-testing myself as I read will allow for much more long term absorption of material. In addition, to increasing the skills in how I read I want to learn to create study questions for myself. When study guides are not provided it’s easy to feel overwhelmed with the idea of exams. However, we can train ourselves to recognize important information and create our own study questions to be able to answer before exam day. Self-testing and self-created study questions are going to my new approach at studying.

The three study weaknesses that I have are turning off my cell phone during studying, highlighting entire paragraphs when taking notes, and a photographic memory. While studying for an assignment or quiz in high school, I struggled with having my cell phone on and near me. At any vibration, I would have to stop studying and pick up the phone to make sure I was not missing an important text, email, or phone call. Because of this distraction it caused me to reread sentences over and over, which leads to my second weakness as adult highlighting entire paragraphs instead of identifying the key points. This negative habit began while in a college English course.

In the first video “Beliefs That Make You Fail… Or Succeed” Dr. Steven Chew started off by stating you, the student, cannot become an A student overnight with little to no effort. He made a great point by saying “…students base their study behavior on their beliefs of how they best learn”, I agree with this statement because this could be the reason as to why everyone learns in many different ways. He went over three key facts which fall under “Beliefs That Make You Stupid”, which the first was you should always plan ahead of time because your assignments or reading will most likely take longer than you expected them to, therefore be realistic about your timing. The second key fact would be don’t isolate your learning, this meaning to be open minded because teachers look for conception and if you try to constantly remember the things you’re not really understanding what you’re going over. Thirdly, you aren’t born and automatically good at that subject. You must actually work towards achieving a high success in that subject matter. When it comes to being distracted you’re just losing more

I have a few weaknesses when it comes to school. One of my weaknesses is nervousness. I tend to get nervous when it’s time to take a test. Another weakness is thinking I will not succeed. I am always afraid that I will fail, and not move forward. I seem to always second guess myself when it comes to writing a paper or speaking in front a room full of people. I am working on each of my weaknesses.

However, I knew there must have been ways I could fix this. I had already took small steps when my teacher announced a self-improvement project, and this is when I knew I had to start. I decided that, if nothing, I would record my problems more accurately, and to go about this endeavor could not make things worse. Though not everything I did was helpful, this project has undoubtedly helped me.

While students feel they are great at multitasking, studies show that they actually perform academically at a lower level than those who do not multitask. A study was conducted by a respected research lab in Stanford University. Clifford Nass, a professor of communications at Stanford University, introduces us to a study conducted on carefully-selected high chronic students who multitask (Digital Nation). The experiment was structured for students to identify numbers as odd or even, letters as vowels or consonants. Professor Nass wanted to test how quickly these students can switch tasks without losing focus. The results showed that people who multitask are slower than those who do not multitask. While slower does not mean horrible, it should raise a sign that if they had focused on their work only they would get better scores in their respective studies. Sherry Turkle, in an interview, displayed the differences between two common multitasking activities: taking a break from your studies to stretch and surfing the web. Turkle says: “When you get up and stretch and take a walk around the block, you can stay with your problem. You can clear your mind; you can move your body. You can stay

Everyone is unique in many different ways; one of them is learning. Sheila Tobias in Academic Writing shows the reader how the way a person learns is vital information for the instructor to know. The instructor does not have to accommodate to each student, but take into consideration the different learning styles that exist. “But their instructors so not take the time to show them how” (Tobias 28). Professors do not take time to show students how to succeed in their class. They expect the student to have similar learning preferences as the instructor. The student has to learn how, or fail. There are numerous ways a person learns and is hard from him or her to adapt when there is no one there to guide them. Tobias says, “Providing feedback

One weakness that I need to improve is my ability to integrate between my professional and personal life. I have the tendency to allow my work life take over my personal life because it's difficult for me to say "no." In my current job, I would agree to work late night events which would later affect my ability to complete homework and received a decent restful sleep. I plan to improve this area by working on my time management and prioritizing tasks in my professional and personal life. I need to evaluate what event os task is important to help me move forward with my life. Another weakness that I possess is being easily startled by my surroundings. When I'm deeply focused on a task, I tend to be easily startled by the people that come up to me because I'm not constantly aware of my surroundings. I plan to improve this weakness by constantly being on the alert of my surroundings and taking kickboxing classes to work on the perception of my environment. Another weakness is my time management skills because I tend to wait to turn in my assignment on time. I noticed that I tend to work better under pressure, therefore, I constantly stress myself out to complete assignments or study for tests. I have a ridiculous ideology that if I wait the last possible minute, I would have the motivation to focus on the assignment in order to complete it. I plan to strengthen my time management skill by creating calendars with important dates and make realistic timelines for when I want the assignments completed. I also would attempt to eliminate any distractions during homework in order to finish at a reasonable

During a lecture I often times will catch myself doodling on my paper when I should be taking notes. I often will remember the “real” things that happen. VARK helps recognize what will help different people with their different learning styles. VARK offers the SWOT – Study without tears as an example. They suggest converting your “notes” into a learnable package by reducing them. VARK suggests that your lecture notes maybe poor because the topics were

Professor chew has some really valid points. I have done some of the points Professor Chew pointed out. I might be guilty of more than half of the points Professor true pointed out. For example my study habits have been wrong and I studied several times for a long period of time and didn't remember anything in time of the test. I have also been overconfident in a test I didn't know and expected a better grade than I the one I actually got. And several times I've been too lazy to do work so I fool myself and believing I know the material when I really don't know it. I have also been in classrooms where the teaching style the teacher has is in my learning style. I have also underestimated the time it will take to do an assignment and I do the assignment in a rush. I have also studied right before an exam giving myself no time to review. I also believe that I am good or bad in the subject and do nothing to change that. I've

In our world, humans make mistakes that sometimes can be fixed. We can learn from mistakes that we made during school or somewhere else. My experience with this is, learning from mistakes will give you power and extra knowledge on where you went wrong. If I have failed to do a certain step, I will revise the material and do it again. When I had a social studies test in grade eight, I believed that I did not have to study and look over the notes I had from class. Instead I decided to go to class and write it. Lter that same day I checked my mark on that test and it gave me a shock throughout my body. From that moment I knew I had to make a change to my studying habits. In grade 11, I had no problem with any of my studies, but when it came to grade 12, I started to slack off. Not having the grades I wanted for math or English to get into a

Personal learning styles are highly complex and unique to specific individuals. It is often difficult to pinpoint an exact learning style. Though there are different categories, we often fine tune them to our own abilities. By examining our traits and tendencies we create a clearer understanding of how we process and learn information. With careful review, I have developed a specific analysis of my learning characteristics, including an evaluation of skill levels. Based on what I have recently learned and know from experience, I have also devised a structured plan for improvement of time management and study skills.

I believe that understanding metamemory is important for a college student to study efficiently. I would like to enlighten Ease-of Learning Judgment as self-monitoring and Allocation of Self-Paced Study Time During Learning as self-control because these are useful to make a study plan.

My greatest weakness is writing essays. Especially revising my essays I had to teach myself to think critically. My other weakness was grammar, and fragments. I have noticed the majority of my sentences were fragments. I had to teach myself to slow down. Time management was the key to slow down. It takes a little longer to write an essay with brainstorming and outline. The results were better results for each paragraph and sub lines of each paragraph would consist of such as sources. I have learned to transition sentences, and allowing all my sentences in my