We have had a great time in Lobau . It was very warm and sunny day.  We arrived there by car (thanks to Patrick) .
The day, work, session, whatever we could name it was divided into 3 main parts.

1) Intro + We were given some intro to what we should do  and how and why. then we went to discuss the topic in our KCT just walking and talking (I and patrick, Johnny was as usual absent)
2)World Cafe: Intro+ We went outside to the nature . The main idea was to find a place you like , to  calm down(ALONE!), to shut all the extra information from the town and get the right things come out regarding our observation stuff
3) collective “braining”  – we sit with Patrick and  though what could be a right direction to continue regarding our project

We had two main ideas

1) mafia leadership camp

2) Guidline for something like “how to identify and  influence on hierarchy via it’s leaders

3)Something was about organizational structure and it’s culture …

we were given some time to think about our prototype

©Academic Skills Center, Dartmouth College 2001

I. ORIGINAL LEARNING must take place. You have to learn the material before you can review it.

II. EARLY REVIEW is most efficient, most productive.

A. Before you attempt to learn new material in class or through reading:

• Glance over previous chapters or notes.

• Run through your mind what you know already.

Since memorization of new material is most effective when it is associated with the material already known, this process brings all available mental “hooks” to the surface.

B. Immediately after learning:

• Rework your notes, adding material that comes to mind. (Don’t recopy; this is wasteful.)

• Order and organize what was learned. (Star, use arrows, additional comments, etc.)

• Integrate new material with what you already know.

Forgetting is most rapid right after learning. Review helps combat this. Relearning is easier if it is done quickly. Don’t wait until it’s all gone.

III. Space initial early reviews to support original learning. Several brief periods spread over 5 or 10 days is usually enough to ensure good recall for intermediate review.

IV. Intermediate review is important when work is spread out over several months or longer. For example, when the final is 4 months away, follow this schedule:

• original learning

• immediate review of limited material same day (5-10 minutes)

• intermediate review of material covered so far, after 2 months

• final review, before exam

Intermediate and final reviews should stress understanding and organization of material.

V. Final review is a REVIEW, not “cramming” of unlearned material. No new learning takes place except to draw together the final main currents of thought.

• Be brief. Review entire semester’s work in 2-4 hours. (Set a limit and stick to it.)

• Outline and organize from memory. Don’t bother copying.

• Recite (in writing or out loud to a friend or self)

VI. USE SPACED REVIEW rather than MASSED PRACTICE. 60 minutes used in 3 groups of 20 minutes each is more effective than 60 minutes used all at the same time.

• break up learning period for any one subject

• avoid fatigue

• review and strengthen previous learning

• increased motivation, better concentration

Here I was just digging around how to make my study more effective.

The main think is that I need a new way of organizing my life and study process so I loose less time, remember more and can do better.

I am writing this post just to recome after and read again what i found

Cornell Notes

Cornell Notes is a system of making and using notes that promotes active learning. Before the lecture (or reading) you set up your notebook pages with a vertical line dividing the page roughly 1/4 (left) and 3/4 (right). The wider right side is used to make notes, draw graphs and record the important information from the lecture or reading. It is a good idea to leave a line or two between each major note or piece of information. The left column is used to write questions and keywords that relate to the information recorded on the right. Each major point on the right ought to have a question or keyword on the left.

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Just yesterday we had a discussion with Prof. Peschl .

Presentation was…

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Just had today meeting with our KCT. Johnny was ill , so I had to meet only  with Patrick Hippmann. From the very start very bright and interesting person. If you are reading this Patrick, just  wana say “cheers!” We have discussed a little bit, about this and that,here and there, and came to the idea that we should narrow the theme of “hierarchies and climbing up” to the mafios hierarchies. The idea is that we would have here pretty much material to make observations. We would have a lot of documentary films, books, pictures to research on.The main should be “entry barriers”  and relations between a new-comer and group/group-leader(s).I think would be very interesting on an example of mafia groups to make an observation how the group accepts or rejects the newcomer, and how newcomer can/should identify  and position himselve inside the groups. The idea to narrow on Mafia and to observe on films was Patrick’s , I just added that we should use not a usual holiwood films, but would be better to use  documentary things, which are quite real.

Anyway let’s see what will come out .

Just inspired with a dialogue with Jane yesterday I decided to finish this article today.

So how you think girls choose sexual partners for them?

Actually If you will think over, it’s obvious that  men offer and  girls decide. They decide “to take or not to take” the offer. In very very very seldom cases boys choose or boys decide. So the natural mechanism of our society is that “girls decide”.

If you have already mentioned , our society consists from many pyramidal organizations and society itself is a pyramid. The base of the pyramid is common people. They are the working power and they supply the main customer and tax base for the government. On the top of the pyramid are 2-3 dinosaurs . There is a lot of place on the bottom of the pyramid , but on the top there is in much cases just one person.So lets asume that a  common girl “in vacuum”

What you think if a girl has a choice between 2 men which are

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KCT-Knowledge Creation Team

We made some clustering stuff today on the seminar of

PhD-M: Philosophy of Science

Foundations and Practicing Collaborative Knowledge Construction and Design Thinking in Science and Technology

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Here are the slide of that day

We should at first divide in 2-3 groups of 5-6 persons, and each one should tell about the “question that matters for him/her” .

First of all Sasha made me sad with his “ladies first” concept.  Strange, have you ever thought how much are we boys descrimitated by the girls? Have you ever questioned why “ladies first”? They prove hardly that they are smarter than us, they can bear much more than us boys, then why when it comes to let’s say standing in the line , or some other staff, I should give a turn to a girl, becuase “she is a girl” ?

Somebody thinks that girls are better than boys, becuase they are girls?  B…,s..t!

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