ADAPTATION; Adaptation is a process that we as human being or more likely a student will never retire from. We go through something new everyday and we need to adapt to it in order to be and show the best of ourselves. The process of adaptation is vast starting from the reconstruction of our new environment , new studying method, new friends, and time management.
The differences between High school and College Source: Google Images
Learning Style and Characteristics
Types of learning styles Source: Hopehealth.com
Activity 1: Identifying my learning style
Results from : educationplanner.org Source: screenshot; educationplanner.org. Learning style Quiz
Referring to the quiz that we are required to answer given by DR.Shafii [link Identifying your learning style], I have been given the score shows as below.
Auditory [50%]
Visual [30%]
Tactile [20%]
From the scores resulting above, I have identified my learning style as an AUDITORY learner. I can understand important things and informations by hearing them with the help of my ears throughout the learning process.
According to the quiz page, here are thing that I can practise to improve my learning ability as an Auditory Individual:-
“One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals”
-Micheal Korda
GOAL: A goal is an idea of the future or desired result that a person or a group of people envisions, plans and commits to achieve. People endeavor to reach goals within a finite time by setting deadlines.
As a student, having goals is salient in order to keep us motivate and keep us to achieve the target that we want to achieve. Apart from that, according to Edwin A. Locke, the more specific and ambitious ones goal, it will lead to more performance improvements than easy and general goals. However, goal settings can affects the outcomes by
Choice – Goals may narrow someone`s attention and direct their efforts toward goal relevant activities .
Effort- Goals may someone more effort full .
Persistence – Goals may make someone more willing to work through set back.
Activity 2: Managing Your Goal
Dr. Shafiq have asked us to set up our goal, obstacle, and our way to achieve it .
As a student, time management is so important to ensure that our time is spent in a quality way. A good time management could be beneficial for us in terms of reducing stress, shorter the time when doing the task and more time for us to spend with our family and friends.
In order to manipulate time managements , we need to master things shown below
Create a time audit
Set a time limit to each task
Use a to-do-list but do not abandon tasks
Plan ahead
Learn to delegate or outsource
Eliminate half work
Priority the most urgent task
Have a schedule to manage your time
Get organized and single task
Stop being perfect
So that is the few things that we need to master in order for us to manage our time carefully and making sure that we spend all time more quality.
Procrastination
Procrastination ; is the avoidance of doing a task that needs to be accomplish by a certain deadline.
“My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.”
Charles Dicken
There are several reasons why people always procrastinating
Excessive perfectionism
Laziness
Try to avoid getting fail or fall at something
Plenty of time procrastination
Activity 3 : Personal Schedule
We are required to do our weekly schadule as shown below:-
Activity 4 : Managing so Much Work
By using the schedule shown below, we must identify the urgency of each activity;
Regarding this topic, we have been exposed to memory learning and the effect of improving concentration by our lecturer, Dr Agustono Wibowo. He explained to us how we can easily remember things and the important of it. However in order for us to dig deep inside this topic, we first need to know and understand about MEMORY.
MEMORY; Memory is our ability to encode, store, retain and subsequently recall information and past experiences in the human brain. … Memory is the sum total of what we remember, and gives us the capability to learn and adapt from previous experiences as well as to build relationships.
The total points indicate your brain ability roughly, the higher the total points, the better it is.
Memory and learning
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Following up from the lecture process, we have been exposed to the definition of memory, how informations are restored in our memory, and I turned up to something new regarding the needs of using various kind of learning strategy, retaining, encoding and storage, not to forget, the retrieval.
By referencing the pyramid above, we know that there a a vast effective of memory retention.
The storage [ Retaining Information ]
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According to the diagram above, memory can be divided into 2:
Short-term Memory (abbr STM)
Long-term Memory (abbr LTM)
1) Short-term memory is a very limited information stored in our brain . By rephrasing and repeat, we are able to change this type of memory to a Long-term Memory. If we fail to do this, it is not impossible for us to completely forget about it.
2) Long-term memory is an unlimited and never ending storage located in our nerve. This kind of memory may be disappear or forgotten if it was not used for a prolonged time.
Activity 7 : Close your eyes
We were given by a glimpse of numbers located in a slideshow -[approximately 5 seconds] and are ordered to write down the numbers that we remember.
I managed to jot down 6 of it.
Memorystrategies
How can we forget? And how can it occur?
As a student, paying attention and giving full focus is soo important in order for us to absorb as many informations as we could and store it inside our memory . The main reason for it to occur is because we are losing focus on lectures time and do not pay full attention during the lecturing duration. Apart from that, by not understanding certain parts of informations, it also may lead to forgetting situations.
How can we improve our memory ?
practice to focus and give 100% commitments
organize the informations
Repeating and keep rephrasing
Strategy to improveConcentration
Take a rest
Make a plan
Developed a control and balance diet
Exercise frequently
Take breaks and mix up the environment
Remember to give your brain a quick break at least every hour at the most every 30 minutes
Practice doing one thing at a time and do it to completion
Try keywords techniques
Causes of poor concentration
Stress
Lack of interest, motivation, attention
Lack of sleep
In excruciating environments
Diet
Activity 8 : Concentration chart
Our lecturer has asked us to build our concentration chart
Integrity ; Integrity is the practice of being honest and showing a consistent and uncompromising adherence to strong moral and ethical principles and values.
Source : Google [Wikipedia]
Having integrity could obstruct one from doing unmannerly action. One of it is called plagiarism.
Plagiarism
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Plagiarism ; plagiarism is an act to plagiarize in order to give the impression that you have written or thought something that you have ‘borrowed’ from someone else.
The act of plagiarism is illegal, unethical and can lead to failure in courses if caught and discovered.
How to avoid plagiarism
There are ways to avoid plagiarism, some of it will make sure that we will never simply taking source without crediting the author or owner.
Paraphrase. Make sure that you do not copy verbatim more than words in a row together.
Cite. Citation or citing is one of the effective ways to avoid plagiarism. You may follow the document formatting guidelines (APA, MLS, CHICAGO) used by institutional research requests.
Quoting. Citing a quote can be different then citing paraphrased material.
Referencing. One of the most important ways to avoid plagiarism Is including a reference page of work cited.
Calculating Grade Point Average (GPA)
Every final semester examination will be graded using Grade Point Average (GPA) and Cumulative Grade Point Average at the end of semesters course.
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A Grade Point Average (GPA) is calculated in each semester scaled from 0 to 4.0 shown as below
Source : Google ImagesThe formula to calculate GPA
In order to calculate and find our gpa weighted by credit hours, you can do steps shows below.
Multiply each numeric Grade value by the numbers of credit the course allocated
Add this values of number together
Divide by the total number of credit you have registered
Example
Failure and Dismissal
Failure status
Activity 11 : Calculating Gpa
Extract 1 : Diagram below shows Amelia Ameer`s examination results. Calculate the gpa for Amelia Ameer on her first semester
Organic Chemistry = 4 (credit) x 3 (Grade B) = 12.00
Intro Physics I = 4 (credit) x 2 (Grade C) = 8.00
Writing in Biology = 3 (credit) x 2 (Grade C) = 6.00
Public Speaking = 3 (credit) x 3.67 (Grade A- ) = 11.01
Total ; 50.33 [total points]
18 [ total credit]
GPA [ 2ND SEMESTER ] = 2.80 |Based on formula (diagram) above |
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Extract 5 : What would happen if Amelia Ameer had earned a D in Cell Biology instead of a B+?
Cell biology = 4 [ credit] x 1.00 (Grade D) =4.00
Organic Chemistry = 4 (credit) x 3 (Grade B) = 12.00
Intro Physics I = 4 (credit) x 2 (Grade C) = 8.00
Writing in Biology = 3 (credit) x 2 (Grade C) = 6.00
Public Speaking = 3 (credit) x 3.67 (Grade A- ) = 11.01
Total ; 41.01 [total points]
18 [total credit]
GPA [SEMESTER 2 (IF CELL BIOLOGY IS D)] =2.28 |based on the formula (diagram) above|
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Extract 6 : What is the difference in GPA [2nd semester]?
2.80 [if CD is scored B+] – 2.28 [if CD is scored D] = 0.52
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Extract 7 : What is the differenct in CGPA?
The difference in CGPA can be calculated bu substracting Amelia CGPA in semester 1 and semester 2 shown as below
2.77 [ CGPA of Semester 1] – 2.75 [ CGPA of Semester 2] = 0.02
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Extract 8 : What does Amelia Ameer need to do in order for hear to achieve a GPA score of 3.00 in the Semester 2 if hear CGPA falls below 2.50 in Semester 1 ?
Amelia must at least score a Grade B and Higher in Introduction to Physics, and writing in Biology.
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