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The “Count the Vowels” Activity
Counting Vowels in 30 Seconds: How accurate are you?
This is an activity that shows students how they can improve their learning. The entire task takes about 4-5 minutes. In the first of three tasks, students are given 30 Sec to count as many of the vowels as they can in the list of words below.
Dollar Bill
Dice
Tricycle
Four Leaf Clover
Hand
Six-Pack
Seven-Up
Octopus
Cat Lives
Bowling Pins
Football Team
Dozen Eggs
Unlucky Friday
Valentine’s Day
Quarter Hour
They are then asked to write down as many WORDS as they can remember. They can usually remember only 3 - 4.
Next students are told to look at the list of words and asked to memorize them. They can usually remember about half of them after trying to memorize the words.
Finally, students are told that the words are listed in a certain way, with a guiding concept to the arrangements. They readily understand the words are listed according to number. After spending 30 seconds to memorize the words this time, students generally tend to remember 12 or more.
The point of the exercise is that students are not any smarter when they got 12 correct(80%; grade of B) instead of 3 (20%, grade of F), they simply knew the task they would have to perform and the conceptual structure of the material.
Students then see how, just as in this exercise, they can significantly increase their performance on a learning task if they:
1. Are very clear about what they will be required to do
2. Have a strategy for linking and relating to the information
Students leave the session in which they do this exercise and learn metacognitive strategies feeling empowered to do better. And many of them email us that they ARE doing better.
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