1. Memory Strategies for Academic Success
ACDV B70E
Memory Strategies for Academic Success

2. What do you remember?

3. Tuesday Thursday Week 1 Week 2 Week 3
Introduction to Memory
Tour of SS Building
Repetition
&
Traditional Memory Aids
Week 2
Imagery
Associations
Mnemonics
Acronyms
Week 3
Music
Movement
Final Project Presentations

5. Imagery & Associations
Day 3

6. Imagery
Also known as “visualization.”
Forming visual images.

7. Styles of Learning

8. What’s Your Learning Style??
Get out your phones or just write on paper.
Go to Kahoot.it
Play

9. How to use visualizations
Use your imagination to create vivid mental images of the ideas.

10. Berg

11. Kuchen

12. Strand

13. Associations
Links or connections between two or more “things”

14. Why Use Associations?
The more links you can create to a memory, the strong the connection can be, the easier it is for the brain to retrieve it

15. Example Name-to-face idea - name - face - job - family
- what their name reminds you of

16. Ways to Create Associations
- use words
- previous memories
- images
- songs
- locations
- diagrams
- videos

17. Ways to Study

18. Summary and Reflection
What type of learner are you?
Do you think visualization and association will work for you?

19. Homework
Online –
Choose one thing you want to commit to long- term memory and list 7 different associations.
Watch 2 Videos on memory

20. Memory Strategies for Academic Success
ACDV B70E
Memory Strategies for Academic Success

21. Improving your Memory Be flexible Overlearn Schedule
Rephrase and Explain
Eliminate accidental and unrelated associations
Eliminate previous mistakes
Prioritize
Get emotionally involved
Utilize mechanical memory aids

22. Mnemonics
Day 42

23. Mnemonic
a device such as a pattern of letters, ideas, or associations that assists in remembering something.

24. Types of Mnemonics Songs & Rhymes Names & Acrostics / Acronyms Models
Associations (word or visual)
Chunking & Organizing
Method of Loci

25. Acrostic
a poem, word puzzle, or other composition in which certain letters in each line form a word or words.

26. Acronym
an abbreviation used as a word formed from the initial letters in a phrase or a word

27. NEWS - Never Eat Soggy Waffles

28. Every Good Boy Does Fine

29. Roy G. Biv
Colors of the spectrum

30. Pvt. Tim Hall
Essential Amino Acids

31. Foil

32. Word Association
Connecting parts of a word to an idea to remember the meaning o spelling

33. Principal or Principle
Principal - The most important person, head or chief of the school is a “pal”
Principle – rule, law

34. Latitude and Longitude
Longitude is “long”. It passes north pole and south pole. It's vertical lines.
Latitude is horizontal lines. Think of it as the horizontal lines in “ladder”.

35. Homework
Create or find an acronym or acrostic for an important concept in one of your classes.