Last week Crew Young blended the use of graphic organisers with academic study of other techniques used to help retention and recall of key facts and concepts. We started by pooling our ideas, using the “silent conversation” protocol, whereby in 2 groups we annotated ways and means of fixing knowledge in our long term memory, piggy-backed each other’s ideas before then swapping our notes with the other group so as to silently consider and build upon theirs.
Tried and tested techniques such as graphic organisers, flashcards, mnemonics, spider charts, colour coding were discussed and later we practised creating spider diagrams of things we enjoy doing to see how we might apply this in hums and steam sessions.
Last Friday we began our DofE Silver skills challenge with a full re-boot of the online St. John’s Ambulance First Aid Course, and my favourite photo of compassion so far from Louie shown towards Adam…..
