I’m no telepathic genius, but I’ll bet that if I visited your desk to check out your study aids you’d have pencils, pens, paper ... and maybe index cards, if we’re lucky. If that’s
true, your desk needs a serious makeover. The index cards have some potential, I’ll admit, but good studying (as we must have learned previously) requires engaging your brain. A
drawer full of boredom will hardly do that. If I studied all night and still failed the test is your mantra,this article is for you.
Many of my students would come to me after I handed back their test grades, chanting
this very same mantra while looking like someone had just stolen their breath. If I probed to find out what “studied all night” meant, most would admit it had something to do with
opening the book and staring at the pages for hours, hoping the information would miraculously carve its way into their brains. Of course, you already know why this “study” technique didn’t work: Input but no Output.
Think about what catches your attention every day— bright billboards, fast-paced commercials, and just about anything on a television screen. Some pedagogists ponder why so many Americans under twenty-one can recite five beer slogans but not the first five presidents of the United States. My response is this: when was the last time you saw John Adams and James Monroe running
along a beach with bikini-clad pilgrims? I mean, that’s the sort of image you’d remember, right? Marketing executives are no fools. They know the tricks that get people memorizing worthless jingles for plastic cheese and colored fruit-less juice. So, what do they know that we don’t?
The marketing folks know this: some combination of color, movement, sound, and mnemonics will make
virtually anything memorable. Let’s apply that to the topic at hand and see what we can do about giving your desk drawer a face-lift. Oh, and since you already know your primary learning
strength, I’ve added for Auditory, for Visual, and for Kinesthetic beside the study tricks to give you a starting place depending on your primary learning strength. I’ll also include a series of icons to guide you to quick study tricks when you’re short on time , tricks
that are great for groups , tricks that work best when you’re on your own , tricks that require extra materials , and tricks best paired with chocolate . Maybe not that last one, since isn’t everything better with chocolate? Of course, don’t take my icons as gospel truth. Just because you may be a doesn’t mean you won’t like Tinted Tabs (which I marked a ). Nearly all learners use at least a little bit of each strength, so the learning strength notes are simply a suggested starting point as you begin testing out tricks. And, just because you’re home alone doesn’t mean you shouldn’t give Twisted Twister a whirl.
Even though it’s listed with a group icon, it may be the best thing you’ve ever done to prep for your vocab test, and if so, go for it. This should go without saying, but just in case it
isn’t obvious, feel free to customize the tricks to stimulate your own strengths and interests. For example, I said Paper Flaps fit all three strengths because if you’re an Auditory
learner you can speak aloud whatever is on the cards, if you’re a Visual learner you can simply stare at them and cover the flaps to test what you’ve seen, and if you’re a Kinesthetic learner you can flap and flip while you practice. The point? Make these tricks work for you. On a final note,
if your school has begun to incorporate e-textbooks (lucky you!) you have a unique toolbox available to you as you study in addition to what is listed here, and much of this will be tweakable and applicable to your system.
The next time you’re near a market, grab some colored pencils, pens, or markers. If you think color is only important for Visual learners or kindergartners, you are mistaken. Unless you see the world in monochrome and prefer it that way, a little bit of color is just what the doctor ordered to
spice up your study life and help improve your learning efficiency.
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