gms | German Medical Science

Learning objectives: At the end of the workshop:

• Participants will appreciate and use mnemotechniques for life long teaching and learning (e.g. SEE-LINK-GO! by Nelson Dellis [1])
• Participants will understand why memorizing and education needs to be story based. This is my modification. Every story includes the following basic requirements:
  • Choose a unique PLACE for your memory journey to reduce confusion
  • The EXCITER (see / visualize / pay attention to the new exciting subject/object/competence)
  • LINK to previous knowledge, choose a metaphor / analogy / modify your known classification systems
  • Determine and respect competence level
  • Getting wild with all of your senses (Nelson Dellis: Sensory Overload, Grotesque Absurdity, Movable Attributes)
• participants will have used and explored digital tools for exercising mnemotechniques collaboratively
  • https://docs.google.com/ or http://www.argunet.org/ for anonymous discussions
  • https://prezi.com/ for visualizing a metaphor or tell a whole story
  • https://www.autodraw.com/ to draw with the help of artifical intelligence

Agenda:

• Introduction
• Impuls: The evidence and cognitive neurobiology of how and why mnemotechniques work
• Exercise: memorizing with the loci method
• Impuls: Why do we need modifications for (medical) Education:
  • Arguments for place, exciter and association with a competence
  • Learning styles might be myths – why should we exclude any sense?
• Exercises with digital tools:
  • Discussion of possibilities and risks of mnemotechniques
  • Development of a metaphor and a story for medical learning objectives
  • We draw sketches that we need for our story

Target Audience: Anyone interested in life long learning or seeking a modified brain instruction manual. Standard workshop language will be German. It could be English on demand.

Suggested Preparation: Preparation is generally not necessary. It can be very helpful, though. My current favorite instruction manual comes from Nelson Dellis. Check out his website at https://www.nelsondellis.com/ and decide for yourself. You may just watch a couple of videos or read his new book “Remember it” [1]. Anything will be of help for you, especially if you weren't introduced to mnemo-techniques in your previous life.

Furthermore, it will save us time if you would have previously explored the mentioned websites and registered were necessary.