The Center for Faculty Development of Teacher Education Research has launched a serial activity called Teaching under COVID-19 – Experience Sharing by Learning Talents in order to practice the concept of “creative education”, give full play to the main role of students, understand students’ online learning methods, learning experience and learning expectations, help students better adapt to online learning methods, and provide teachers with innovative online teaching models as well as improve the quality of online teaching and realize “student-centered” online teaching. Lecture 3 is now available, i.e., Sharing Online Study Strategies and Study Apps. The speaker of this lecture is Yao Yizhu, a 2018 undergraduate student of School of Foreign Languages.
I. Outline
Study strategies
1. Ordering tasks
① Importance and urgency principle: Finish tasks one by one in order of importance and urgency: important and urgent one, urgent but not important one, not urgent yet important one, not urgent one, and not important one with the help of Four Quadrants.
② From easy one to hard one: Facing various tasks within one quadrant, you can begin your study by dealing with the easiest one so you are prone to obtain positive feedbacks, which is beneficial for us to continue to handle the following tasks.
③ Mind change: Inserting tasks of different types or different subjects when ordering the list.
2. Implementation strategy
① Dividing the big goal: Dividing the big goal into several small tasks is able to help obtain positive feedbacks so as to help in finishing the big goal.
② Making a to-do list: Ticking the task after you have finish it, or setting a rule, e.g., you can have a rest or do some entertainment activities after obtaining a tick or some ticks.
③ Keeping concentrated: Keep yourself from the noise. Once we enter the “heart flow”, we will find it not so painful to finish the tasks.
II. Study Apps:
1. Making a plan: “Reminder” and “Calendar” in your mobile phone. “Reminder” is suitable for setting daily plan, weekly plan and monthly plan, while you are able to know clearly what you need to do every day by using “Calendar”.
2. Setting focused time: “Forest” and “TomaTodo”.
3. Obtaining study resources: “Bilibili”.
4. Sorting out knowledge points: “XMind” and “Mubu”.
(From News Center, translated by Zhang Zenghua, revised by Chen Yanxu)
