Video Clips
One of the best ways of grasping basic concepts is by watching videos. Animations and graphics enable us to place an accurate picture of whats happening in our heads for the purposes of Associative Learning.
Sitting down and trying to read of 12 pages worth of information with some accompanying diagrams can be frustrating and painstaking, as well as very time consuming - and yet, after all that effort, you might remember only tid-bits. The power of associative learning is that it's passive and it incorporates more of your senses which stimulates more of your brain, thus enabling you to remember better because your brain has more references for memory. Simply put - its like this:
- When you read and refer to diagrams, you are simply looking at static images (whether picture or text) and you try to repeat words to yourself. However, when you look at a video, you view moving images, you hear sounds and you also read points and repeat them to yourself - so you engage more brain activity through increased stimulation. This means that when you remember whatever you do from a video, then hearing sounds and colours/graphics can both trigger your memory - for the former situation, there are very few triggers.
I hope these videos are helpful!!
Please remember that watching videos should only be supplementary to studying from a textbook and/or your notes taken in class. Do not rely on these videos alone. Their sole purpose is to stimulate your mind and senses and to give you a basic idea of what the content is all about. I advise that a video on a particular topic, say the Electron Transport Chain, be viewed the night before it is to be taught in class. Nothing replaces hard work and long hours of reading and making summary notes.
I reinforce my point that these videos are to be used as supplemental tools.
Sitting down and trying to read of 12 pages worth of information with some accompanying diagrams can be frustrating and painstaking, as well as very time consuming - and yet, after all that effort, you might remember only tid-bits. The power of associative learning is that it's passive and it incorporates more of your senses which stimulates more of your brain, thus enabling you to remember better because your brain has more references for memory. Simply put - its like this:
- When you read and refer to diagrams, you are simply looking at static images (whether picture or text) and you try to repeat words to yourself. However, when you look at a video, you view moving images, you hear sounds and you also read points and repeat them to yourself - so you engage more brain activity through increased stimulation. This means that when you remember whatever you do from a video, then hearing sounds and colours/graphics can both trigger your memory - for the former situation, there are very few triggers.
I hope these videos are helpful!!
Please remember that watching videos should only be supplementary to studying from a textbook and/or your notes taken in class. Do not rely on these videos alone. Their sole purpose is to stimulate your mind and senses and to give you a basic idea of what the content is all about. I advise that a video on a particular topic, say the Electron Transport Chain, be viewed the night before it is to be taught in class. Nothing replaces hard work and long hours of reading and making summary notes.
I reinforce my point that these videos are to be used as supplemental tools.