Maximise Your Memory Materials developed by the Learner Development Unit at the University of Bradford Learner Development Unit www.brad.ac.uk/lss/learnerdevelopment

What you will learn: How what you eat in the run up to your exams can affect your memory. How to use mindmapping effectively

How what you eat in the run up to your exams can affect your memory.

How to use mindmapping effectively

The Plan… What do you know about your memory & what tricks have you already tried? Memory & Recall theories Eating for improved memory Mindmapping techniques

What do you know about your memory & what tricks have you already tried?

Memory & Recall theories

Eating for improved memory

Mindmapping techniques

1. What tricks have you already tried? In your group: Exchange tips or techniques which you already use or have tried in the past. Try to make sure everyone contributes at least one tip, no matter how small. Activity: Share a Tip

In your group:

Exchange tips or techniques which you already use or have tried in the past.

Try to make sure everyone contributes at least one tip, no matter how small.

2. Memory & Recall theories A Head Librarian’s dilemma Linear notes = left brain only The World Wide Web in your head Karl Gauss & symbols Mnemosyne & mnemonics – verses and catchphrases, visuality and histories Make your memory work, it’s not an ‘optional extra’ “ Imagination is the intermediary between perception and thought” (Aristotle). Loci and place-induced memory Study, order and care Quintilian the Sceptic

A Head Librarian’s dilemma

Linear notes = left brain only

The World Wide Web in your head

Karl Gauss & symbols

Mnemosyne & mnemonics – verses and catchphrases, visuality and histories

Make your memory work, it’s not an ‘optional extra’

“ Imagination is the intermediary between perception and thought” (Aristotle).

Loci and place-induced memory

Study, order and care Quintilian the Sceptic

Activity: ‘The Run Up to My Exams’ Food Plan Create a day’s food plan of 3 meals which would increase your chances of sound memory recall in the run up to your exams. 3. Eating for improved memory

Create a day’s food plan of 3 meals which would increase your chances of sound memory recall in the run up to your exams.

3. Eating for improved memory Lightly steaming/raw Nuts & seeds Oily fish x3 Go alcohol/refined sugar free To supplement or not to supplement? Antioxidants Vitamin B complex Linseed oil Lecithin granules

Lightly steaming/raw

Nuts & seeds

Oily fish x3

Go alcohol/refined sugar free

To supplement or not to supplement?

Antioxidants

Vitamin B complex

Linseed oil

Lecithin granules

4. Mindmapping techniques

Activity: Mindmapping practise Centre of a landscape-oriented page Image/picture as central idea USE THE COLOURS! Connect your main branches to the central image Make the main branches curved Try to limit ideas to one key word/short phrase per line Have some fun coming up with images/symbols

Centre of a landscape-oriented page

Image/picture as central idea

USE THE COLOURS!

Connect your main branches to the central image

Make the main branches curved

Try to limit ideas to one key word/short phrase per line

Have some fun coming up with images/symbols

What next? Learning materials and to contact us for 1-2-1 advice and support: www.brad.ac.uk/lss/learnerdevelopment Come along to another workshop: http://www.brad.ac.uk/lss/lssworkshops/

Learning materials and to contact us for 1-2-1 advice and support:

www.brad.ac.uk/lss/learnerdevelopment

Come along to another workshop: http://www.brad.ac.uk/lss/lssworkshops/