Unit 3 Personal Communication & Learning Styles

1. Unit 3  Personal Communication & Learning Styles Academic Strategies CS 119 Petra Jones Hill

2. Agenda for Seminar 3 • Reminders • Housekeeping • Seminar Rules • Learning Styles • Study Styles • LASSI • Case Study - Jayden

3. Reminders • (Petra, Professor, Prof)  Whatever makes you most comfortable • AIM-Petra4Kaplan office hours Sunday 6-8PM EST • Email-PJones Hill@kaplan.edu Contact me for all curriculum and class related issues. 

4. Reminder--Help Desk phone number 1-888-747-4710 Remember that your instructor is not equipped to help you with technological issues.

5. Housekeeping • Are you getting the hang of this? • You used Microsoft Word to get document from Doc Sharing • You found all of the Reading • You made sure to upload the document and checked that it was • There (saw the paper icon) • The right document uploaded (Open it and check!) • Named correctly (Used appropriate naming conventions)

6. Reminder- When will I get my Grade??? • Assignments (course projects) will be graded within one week of the due date. • Discussion grades will be updated each week by Sunday of the week following the Unit’s completion. • Personal questions about grades should be discussed privately and will not be discussed in Seminar or the classroom. Contact me directly through email, phone, or AIM

7. Questions?

8. Reminder Seminar Rules • Seminar time is limited and goes by quickly  • Please adhere to the following policies to be sure that we can cover everything for the week!

9. How the Seminar is Conducted… • First, when you respond to a comment someone made, preface it with their first name. For example, if their screen name is Mary Smith, say: Mary - What you say is correct. My perspective is ____” • Second, when you want to address the entire class, preface it with “To All”. For example, “To All - I would like to know ____” • Note - Everyone should use upper and lower case in responding. Please do not use all caps. • Third, when you want to address a question I asked or ask me a question, preface it with “Bori” or “Prof” For example: “Bori - I would ____”

10. How the Seminar is Conducted… • Fourth, Please refrain from off-topic conversation :-) • Fifth, although I may ask a specific question to a specific student you are all welcome to respond to it. • The seminar is a learning experience where you learn from each other. I act as the facilitator. Not everyone has the same view, so don’t take a fellow classmates post as a value judgment on yourself. • Sixth, Student responses should never be one or two words. Most responses like this do not help others to understand what you are saying. • Get into the habit of adding value to each and every response you make.

11. Special Seminar Rules continued Please do not Announce that you are late or Announce that you are leaving the seminar early or Discuss other issues which cannot be dealt with during seminar.

12. Special Seminar rules continued • As a review, conduct yourself as you would in a traditional class setting. • Let’s save the last five minutes of the seminar for questions because chances are that any questions you come with will be covered during the seminar.

13. Seminar Flexability Tonight’s agenda is pretty flexible and I welcome questions along the way. Please do not hesitate to ask questions. I do ask that if you have a question, you “raise your hand”. That helps me to “see” you a little better—I want to make sure all your questions are answered. However, if I ask you (the class a question), you do not need to raise your hand. Once we get to the Case study, you do not need to raise your hand; Just jump right in!

14. Great job last week! I Enjoyed All the Conversations.

15. COMMUNICATION STYLES Identify the Personalcommunication Styles?

16. Personal Communication Styles Passive Aggressive Passive-Aggressive Assertive

17. Discuss your individual personal communication style. How will assertive communication help you at Kaplan (discussion boards, emails, etc.) and in your future career? Personal Communication Styles

18. Learning Styles 

19. Improved efforts by knowing your style We will cover … • What is your personal learning style? • Which study strategies fits you best? • What are your personal strengths ? • What are your personal weaknesses?

20. Why should you know your learning style? Your ability to achieve your personal, professional, and academic goals… • is directly related to knowing how to use your own personal learning style to your advantage

21. Do you know yours? Non-traditional students + Traditional students

22. Learning Styles • Sensitive and Intuitive • Visual and Verbal • Sequential and Global

23. ACTIVE AND REFLECTIVE LEARNERS ACTIVE REFLECTIVE Prefer to think about it quietly first Independent work • Retain and understand information best by doing something active with it--discussing or applying it or explaining it to others • Group work Everybody is active sometimes and reflective sometimes. Your preference for one category or the other may be strong, moderate, or mild. A balance of the two is desirable. If you always act before reflecting you can jump into things prematurely and get into trouble, while if you spend too much time reflecting you may never get anything done. http://www4.ncsu.edu/unity/lockers/users/f/felder/public/ILSdir/styles.htm

24. SENSING AND INTUITIVE LEARNERS SENSING INTUITIVE Prefer discovering possibilities and relationships Innovation and dislike repetition Able to grasp new concepts and are often more comfortable than sensors with abstractions and mathematical formulations • Learning facts • Solve problems by well-established methods and dislike complications and surprises • patient with details and good at memorizing facts and doing hands-on (laboratory) work

25. VISUAL AND VERBAL LEARNERS VISUAL VERBAL Learn best through words--written and spoken explanations • Learn best from what they see- --pictures, diagrams, flow charts, time lines, films, and demonstration Everyone learns more when information is presented both visually and verbally.

27. How can you find your learning style? Take the Learning And Study Styles Inventory LASSI Allow about 30 minutes

28. Very Important Message Unit 3 LASSI Score Reports: Please make sure to SAVE your LASSI scores

29. What is it? It’s an Assessment • 10-scale • 80-item Assesses student awareness about anduse of- • learning and study strategies related to • - Three components of strategic learning • skill, • Will • self-regulation

30. LASSI The focus is on both covert and overt thoughts, behaviors, attitudes and beliefs that relate to successful learning and that can be altered through educational interventions. What do you think this means?

31. Terminology • Covert—means disguised or concealed • Overt—means it is easy to spot

32. Educational interventions • What might this refer to? You Tube

33. Success can be Learned or Enhanced Through educational interventions such as learning and study skills courses

34. LASSI • Provides standardized scores for ten different scales • percentile score equivalents • national norms • Does not give a total score since this is a diagnostic measure.

35. Diagnostic serving to identify or characterize • It provides students with a diagnosis of their strengths and weaknesses, compared to other college students, in the areas covered by the 10 scales

36. Prescriptive giving directions or injunctions* It provides feedback about areas where students may be weak and need to improve their knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and skills. *meaning giving directives

37. The 10 Scales • Information processing • Selecting Main Ideas • Study Aids • Self-Testing • Test Strategies • Attitude • Motivation • Time Management • Anxiety • Concentration

38. How can this help at work? • Solving problems • Acting responsibly • Time management • Communicating clearly • Acting motivated • Getting along with others • Thinking about 'the big picture.‘ • Other ideas?

39. Case Study

40. Jayden

41. Case Study Jayden liked school, but always got in trouble from getting up and moving around in his high school class. He would tap his pencil on the desk when he was reading, and when doing his assignments at home he liked to walk around. He didn't like to follow instructions on assignments, but preferred to just get started and do the work. This caused some problems for him because he sometimes missed important parts of the assignments. Jayden is now taking classes online. He wants to get his degree and earn more money.

42. Case Study Let’s Discuss Let me ask you a few questions and let’s see what we can offer Jayden

43. Question 1 Why is knowing your preferred learning style important to your success in school?

44. Question 2 What suggestions would you give to Jayden so that he is successful in his online classes?

45. Here is what I think…

46. First… Acknowledge that he CAN learn. Jayden just learns differently than others. He also learns against the traditional ways of learning. That is OK. He just may learn different than the traditional way of learning. Therefore, he is going to have to find alternatives to be sure that he is connected. The benefit of online classes is that it does allow you flexibility. You are not forced to be in a CLASS all day or even for any specific period of time. Jayden can come in and out of the discussions all week long. This will work well for his attention span.

47. Second… Communicate his style to his advisor. Oftentimes, they have great resources for students; and they can identify learning options.

48. Third… Discover the opportunities that are in learning through an online method. For example: Flexibility in getting the work accomplished. Not everything has to be done in one day.

49. Question Can you think of anything else that online offers to a student like Jayden?

50. Response… It offers the chance to have ongoing daily communication with instructors for clarification; It offers a chance to do self exploration into topics deeper through the use of the internet; and so much more.