Here the teacher is not supposed to talk about a particular concept for a quite long time. But to make it clear to the students he/she can just go on saying mnemonics or their associated meaning in words. Here he/she goes on saying only words instead of sentences, and once they come to a basic understanding of the meaning of a particular concept then the teacher will explain it in sentences. For example, in teaching language courses this technique can be used as an effective medium by the teacher to develop word power.Goals:
- Dictionary must be used widely
- Word power increases
- Faculty also gets to know many words pertaining to a particular concept.
- One essential goal of teaching with such memory tools enables students to create and use their own tools, or “mnemonics, “to improve recall. [MW1]
- In mnemonic instruction, students relate new information to what they have already earned through visual and verbal cues. [MW2]
- A primary goal of mnemonic instruction is to have students adopt mnemonic strategies and use the mind independently to facilitate the transition from teacher-created to student-created mnemonics. [MW3]
Method:
- One effective mnemonic is a verbal elaborative strategy that successfully links known information to unknown information, usually through an acoustic proxy.
- The keyword strategy, begin by prioritizing and choosing the most important vocabulary, terms, and concepts students should remember. Choose acoustically similar keywords familiar to all students
- To facilitate the transition from teacher-created to student-created mnemonics.
Benefits
- Incorporate mnemonic strategies as much as possible in your teaching.
- Apply attributions (i.e.”If you use the strategies, you will remember the information.”)
- Induce the creation of the strategies.
- Help students create strategies and use class brainstorming.
- Identify important information or associations.
- Create keywords or other relevant verbal elaborations.
- Relate the keyword to the associated information.
- Execute the steps to retrieve the information.
- Have individual students create strategies.
- Monitor and evaluate the independent creation of mnemonic strategies.
Mnemonics Words have been used in the following Subjects:
S.No | Name of the faculty | Subject | Year& semester | A.Y |
1 | Dr.M.Laxmaiah | Data Structure through C++ | II–I | 2018-19 |
2 | Mr.E.Suresh Babu | Software Engineering | II–II | 2018-19 |
3 | Ms.Mrutyunjaya Yalwar | Mobile Computing | IV-I | 2018-19 |
4 | Dr.M.Ravinder | Operating System | II–II | 2018-19 |
5 | Ms.D.Renuka | Compiler Design | III–II | 2018-19 |
6 | Dr.C.N.Ravi | Computer Organization and Architecture | II-I | 2019-20 |
7 | Mrs.K.Mamtha | Compiler Design | III-I | 2019-20 |
8 | Mr.Ch.Ravishekar | Big Data Analytics | IV-I | 2019-20 |
9 | Mr.E.Suresh Babu | Information Retrieval System | III-I | 2020-21 |
10 | Dr.Sheo Kumar | Machine Learning | III-II | 2020-21 |
11 | Dr.M.Kumara Swamy | Python Programming | IV-II | 2020-21 |
Specific Outcome to Mnemonics Words, as follows:
- The effectiveness is observed in verbal elaboration from known information to unknown information [O-MW1]
- It has improved memory of key information on short-term memory to recall [O-MW2]
- In instructional materials need not keep the wealth of additional materials to keep for the teaching. [O-MW3]
Artificial Intelligence(Mne)
Compiler Design(Mne)
Computer Graphics(Mne)
Computer Organization & Architecture (mnemonics)
Data Analysis & Algorithms(Mne)
Data Analysis(Mne)
Data Structure through C++
Data Structure
Database Management System
Discrete Mathematics(Mne)
Formal Languages & Automata Theory(Mne)
Information Retrieval System(Mne)
Machine Learning(Mne)
Mnemonics Word- write up
Mobile Application Development
Operating System
Web Technology