How To Be Successful Online?
Establishing Your Learning Routine and Preparing Your Learning Space
Check your email every day, multiple times a day. If you've already set yourself up with good study habits, those habits will support learning in the virtually. Here are some things to think about when you engage in online learning:
- Setup a daily routine. Stick to it. Ask your parent or another important adult to help you develop your schedule if you need assistance. Be sure your routine includes breaks, time to be active, and time to eat lunch.
- Setup a have a learning space. Anywhere in your house that you think you can be success and not distracted .
Be sure your learning space includes what you need to learn. You'll need a device. You'll need paper, pencils and/or pens. You'll need tools to help you with Desmos for math, and possibly manipulatives like counters.
If possible, your learning space should separate from your bedroom and distanced from the television, it triggers your brain that the space is for work and not play.
Study and Take Notes
Copy of Research Paper Outline Template - Kibin.pdfWhy Does Outline Notes Work?
- Helps you focus on the lesson without writing down every word the teacher says
- Helps you remember key ideas as you study from resources
- Organizes information into a helpful framework that’s easy to review later
- Keeps topics connected throughout the lesson so you connect them to the big topic in your memory
- Helps integrate (link) what you already know to new things you are learning
- Creates a study guide to review before a test.
Take Notes on Videos
Qualities of Good Video Notes
Your brain remembers engaging information better, and videos help with that. Your attention may change after just a few minutes into a lesson. Videos change settings, characters, lessons, and images to keep your attention on the lesson.
When lessons include audio attached to images, it improves your memory and helps you learn. Taking notes from a video keeps you active while you learn, which improves your memory.
Videos help you take ownership of your learning! You can stop, pause, rewind, or rewatch any section. You can learn at your own pace and make sure you understand everything by the end of the lesson.
But learning from a video isn’t helpful without good note-taking strategies!
- Place the video in the context of your learning
- Connect main points
- Generate questions
CornellTemplate.pdfTake Cornell Notes
Taking Cornell Notes works in four different ways:
👀 1. It helps you focus while learning new information (keeping you engaged in the lesson)
💭2. It makes you think about what you are learning, reading or listening to (making your brain and memory stronger)
📝3. It helps you organize the information into smaller chunks you can remember.
🔁4. It will help you review days, weeks, even months after you first heard or read it. Going back and reviewing the same information several times is the best way to remember it forever!
Why does Process of Elimination Works?
Identifying and eliminating wrong answers can help you identify the right answers!
The “Process of Elimination” (sometimes known as POE), is one of the most popular and simple strategies to improve your test scores.
It helps you find the right answer by first finding and removing all the wrong answers.
. In Process of Elimination, it’s the likelihood that you will get an answer correct by guessing. Each time you cross off an answer choice, you improve your chances.
Research has found that students who use test-taking strategies, like the Process of Elimination, perform better on standardized exams, especially in college classrooms. It is one of the most popular and useful learning strategies!
Why Testing Yourself Works?
Every time you learn something new, your brain stores this new information in your memory. BUT there’s so much information stored up there that sometimes it’s hard to remember something when you need to. That is why you need do “Retrieval Practice” or quizzing yourself to practice remembering new knowledge.
If you can create a pathway in your brain from a question to an answer, then your brain can more easily come up with this answer in the future.
Testing yourself is a strategy that helps both with learning and with studying.
Each time you remember something you learned, your brain can create new connections to this information. Then, the information becomes stored in your long-term memory. Once there, you still need to practice remembering it so you can remember it quickly on test day!
Setting a Schedule for Success!
Think about your ability to stay focused and how long you know you can reasonably devote your full attention to a task. Below is a sample daily schedule. Your schedule will look different depending upon your family dynamics and your personal learning needs.
Learning online is just as challenging. There will be certain things such as your stretch and food breaks as well as your lunch time that you'll probably want to keep the same. What might change are the times you hop online complete your course work. The more time you spend learning virtually, the more you'll know about what works best for you in terms of keeping focused and on task.
- 07:30 AM - Get up, get dressed, eat breakfast, brush teeth, etc.
- 08:15 AM - Organize learning space, turn on computer/device, log into Gmail
- 08:30 AM - Review daily Gmail announcement from teacher(s) and get necessary learning materials (books, workbooks, etc.)
- 08:45 AM - Engage in first virtual session or chat session or video tutorial or whatever the topic is for the day
- 09:30 AM - Begin assignments
- 10:00 AM - Take quick stretch and nutrition break
- 10:15 AM - Return to assignments, keep working, document learning in whatever way is required
- 11:00 AM - Check Mail and Remind for any additional announcements
- 11:15 AM - Lunch and movement (Take a walk. Dance Do a TIK TOK. Do jumping jacks. Run. Follow an online workout routine. Just move!)
- 12:00 PM - Return to assignments, keep working, document learning in whatever way is required
- 01:00 PM - Engage in second virtual session or chat session or video tutorial or whatever you know you've been asked to do
- 01:45 PM - Take a quick stretch and food break
- 02:00 PM - Return to assignments, keep working, document learning in whatever way is required
- 03:00 PM - Summarize your learning in whatever way your teacher(s) have requested, and submit your evidence online
- 03:45 PM - Pat yourself on the back for a full day of virtual learning!