Using social and personal preferences to make learning/studying more interesting

Do you ever feel dumb around other people? Are you embarrassed when you don’t know the answer to a question? Do you perhaps panic when lecturers give back test/ exam scripts?

Within this week most of us received our semester test back, which were not looking good at all. As we walked from and to classes, I could hear students justifying themselves by saying “the chapters were too much to study/learn, one can’t know everything or the test was difficult anyway”. I asked myself that how we could have students that get 70-80% whilst others get 30-40 and 50% but we all wrote the same test. Majority of us are guilty, when semester tests/ exams approach us, we tend to learn/study under pressure because we are forced to remember everything form the classes we slept through, refer/read books we never even bought and somehow convince our bodies that sleep isn’t that important at the time.

How can we make learning, reading and studying more fun?

1.      Rap music: using concepts, processes and terms as lyrics of the song we would rap about.
2.      Dance: we could use theory, concepts, processes, and terms as styles, steps and counts as we       would in a dance routine.
3.     Acting:  using the content material of this knowledge area.
4.     Poems:
5.     Singing out the work.

These methods that would appeal to our social and personal preferences would be more interesting. Once the interest has been evoked it wouldn’t be so monstrous for us to open our books.

We could study less, even have a little fun and still do well on our tests and exams through our social and personal preferences.