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Chapter 11
Using Visual Notetaking Systems
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Metacognition
Metacognition is the process of understanding:
• how you learn
• what you need to learn
• which strategies or techniques would be the most effective and best matched to the learning task and your learning process.
Through the use of metacognition, you can tailor or personalize your approach to learning by selecting the combinations that work best for you in particular learning situations.
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Visual Notetaking Systems
Visual notetaking systems are powerful and work effectively because they are based on memory principles that boost your ability to learn new information.
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Kinds of Visual Notes:
Visual Mappings
Hierarchies
Comparison Charts
Other forms of visual notes:
• Pie charts, tables, bar graphs, line graphs, and flow charts
• Diagrams, time lines, and informational charts
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The Power of Visual NotetakingVisual notes are also powerful because they
• incorporate the use of colors, pictures, symbols, and graphics.
• provide you with visual cues and associations to trigger memory.
• provide structure to organize and rearrange information logically.
• show relationships and levels of information.
• provide a way to personalize information in creative, interesting ways.
• promote effective recitation.
• lead to elaborative rehearsal.
• increase concentration.
• Involve multisensory approaches to learning.
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Visual Mappings
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Hierarchies
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Levels of Information
Level 1 = Topic or subject
Level 2 = Main ideas
Level 3 = Key words and details
Level 4 = Minor details
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Essential Strategies for Studying Visual Mappings and Hierarchies
• Imprint into your memory a visual picture of your mapping or hierarchy.
• Visualize the topic and the main headings (the skeleton).
• Recite the topic and the main headings.
• Recite the details.
• Use a reflect activity.
• Use ongoing review.
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Comparison Charts
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Essential Strategies to Study Comparison Charts
• Imprint into your memory a visual picture of the skeleton of your chart.
• Visualize the skeleton of your comparison chart.
• Recite and check your accuracy.
• Use reflect activities.
• Use ongoing review.
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Creating Your Own Graphic Materials
As you read and study from your textbooks, be alert for opportunities to convert printed information into forms of visual graphics.
Four common visual graphics include:
• Pie charts
• Line graphs
• Time lines
• Diagrams
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Active Readers and Active Learners
Strategies for active readers and active learners:
• Read the titles and the captions of all graphic materials.
• Examine the details carefully.
• Draw conclusions or summarize the significance of the information.
• Copy the graphic materials into your notes when the material is not too complex.
• Color-code the parts of the visual notes.
• Expand the textbook graphic materials by adding reminders, details, or explanations.
• Write a short summary under the visual graphic.