Study Skills
The videos we were provided for this week's video assignment largely dealt with study skills. Our first video is about what we could do to better retain information. The second video is about active reading techniques to learn information. The third and final video promotes insight into subtext.
The tips provided in the first video is often heard of. Of course, not many of us enjoy being told we must constantly test yourself. This is especially the case when you feel like you're constantly struggling. Even so, the video tells us that the key to effective information retention is effort. That the more difficult and more effort we put into solving something, the better we remember it. The videos we were provided for this week's video assignment largely dealt with study skills. Our first video is about what we could do to better retain information. The second video is about active reading techniques to learn information. The third and final video promotes insight into subtext.
The tips provided in the first video is often heard of. Of course, not many of us enjoy being told we must constantly test yourself. This is especially the case when you feel like you're constantly struggling. Even so, the video tells us that the key to effective information retention is effort. That the more difficult and more effort we put into solving something, the better we remember it.
The second video provides more information on how to gather the necessary information from a text without wasting time. The video suggests skimming a text to understand where you should put your focus on when reading. How reading backwards can give you quick insight as to whether it is necessary to be reading the text in the first place.
The last video of a Ted talk speech talked about how important it is to be able to understand subtext and the motivations behind a message. While this can be applied, as shown by the video, in our understanding of advertisements, it can be crucial to apply media literacy in news and political sources. When consuming political media, media literacy can change a significant amount as to how you view subjects as biases and propaganda can often slip into discussions. As well, many advertisements don't sell to you the product but the implications of a lifestyle.
While these videos were informative and helpful, not much has changed as to how I will approach reading in the future.
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