HOW TO

BECOME A
BETTER
LEARNER
By: Mark Brillante
Lorenzo Labrador
Claire Chavez
Hanna Ramirez
Rochelle Saldaga
Trixie Rosaroso
Objectives:

1. Explain the relationship of brain and learning.

2. Differentiate between self-regulated learning

and metacognition.

3. Identify the rules of good and bad study habits.

 HOW THE BRAIN WORKS?

The brain works like a big computer. It processes information

that it receives from the senses and body, and sends
messages back to the body. But the brain can do much more
than a machine can. We think and experience emotions with
our brain, and it is the root of human intelligence. Your brain
has a fantastic ability to make changes and recognize itself
throughout your lifetime. It creates connections that allow you
to develop new skills and respond well to different
environments.
 NEURONS SYNAPSES
• Neurons are made up of three main • The connections between the
parts: the CELL BODY, the AXON neurons in your body are known as
which send signals to other nerve SYNAPSES. These are important
cells, and the branch like because when you learn about
DENDRITES, which receive something and work hard to
messages from the neurons. Your understand and comprehend it,
brain has somewhere between 86 your brain forms new synapses
and 100 billion neurons. Each one connections. SYNAPSES are tiny
of those neurons can form gaps between neighboring neurons.
connections called synapses. Electrical signals are fired across
the synapses from one neuron to
another.
 TAKE CARE OF YOUR NEURONS!
(sanaol gin hihirutan)

Your body is a great at healing itself. If you cut your finger, your
body will repair the broken blood vessels and seals the cut or
sometimes it will leave a scar. But if you DAMAGE AN AREA
OF YOUR BRAIN, YOU WONT REGROW OLD NEURONS. BUT!
YOUR BRAIN CAN MAKE NEW NEURONS IN SOME PARTS,
SUCH AS IN YOUR “HIPPOCAMPUS”. This is know as
NEUROGENESIS.
 You’ve got even more synapses than your neurons,
anywhere from 100 trillion to 1,000 trillion. All these
connections enable parts of your brain to communicate
with other parts of your body, allowing you to learn and
remember.

Learning is happening all the time. It might be when

you’re listening to our report, when you’re playing with
the drums, building a model, or even having a
conversation on the phone with a friend.
 When your neurons are not firing and maintaining their
connections, these connections can start to shrink away. This
type of shrinking is known as DISUSE ATROPHY. But the good
news is that you have it in you to maintain those connections
and even from new ones.

Disuse atrophy occurs when neural connections weaken due

to lack of stimulation, but the brain has the remarkable ability
to adapt and reorganize itself through neuroplasticity. By
actively engaging in mental and physical activities, you can
strengthen existing connections, form new ones, and maintain
or even improve cognitive abilities.
 The hippocampus is a part of your brain that's
responsible for your memory and learning. This small
structure helps you remember, both short- and long-
term, and gain awareness from your environment.
Around 75% or three-quarters of your neural
connections are in your brain’s cerebrum. The larger the
hippocampus, the better people tend to be at
remembering things. As you get older, it is the first part
of the brain that gets smaller. But it can also grow and
form connections even in into adulthood.
NUEROPLASTICITY
 Neuroplasticity is the brain’s extraordinary ability to rewire
itself, creating new neural pathways and strengthening
existing connections throughout your life. This remarkable
process allows the brain to adapt to new experiences, recover
from injury, and even compensate for lost functions.
Essentially, your brain is not fixed it’s incredibly flexible and
capable of continuous growth, learning, and adaptation. With
every new skill you acquire, every challenge you face, and
every effort you put into mental or physical activity,
neuroplasticity is at work, helping you become more resilient,
adaptable, and capable.
METACOGNITION
METACOGNITION is your awareness and
knowledge about how you think and
process information. This involves
conscious control over your thoughts.
This means being aware of “how you
think and learn” and being conscious of
yourself “as a thinker and a learner.”
 The most important aspect of metacognition is
recognizing your strengths and weaknesses and
then figuring out how to improve your strengths
and develop your weaknesses. Being aware of
your aptitude will help you become more active in
monitoring your “learning strategies and
assessing your preparedness for tasks and
performances.”
 Metacognitive Metacognitive Metacognitive
Knowledge Regulation Strategies

This includes strategic

This refers to how you
knowledge about
effectively use the This refers to how you
cognitive tasks,
different learning design and formulate
comprehending
strategies to control your strategies to monitor
directions, evaluating the
thinking and problem- your progress on specific
challenges of tasks, and
solving. It includes tasks and make sure
arriving at intelligent
planning, monitoring, and you’re on track to
choices on what learning
evaluating your achieve your objectives.
and thinking strategies
performance.
to use.
 Self regulated learning is an active process of plannin
g , monitoring, and reflecting on every learning process
(Zimmerman and Nilson 2013). This involves acquiring,
retaining, and retrieving knowledge on your own. A
three stage model by Kai Morita, Koji Tanaka and
Mitsuru Ikeda (2020) of self regulated learning includes
planning, monitoring, and evaluating. According to
Morita, Tanaka and Ikeda (2020), a self regulated
learner consciously answers a checklist of regulatory
questions while learning or solving problems.
 Monitoring Evaluating
Planning Questions
Questions Questions

Do i make progress?
What kind of activity is
Did i achieve my
this?
Am i doing this correctly? objective?
What is my objective,
What makes this task Was my strategy
and how will i achieve it?
difficult? effective?
What is the best strategy
What gives me the How will i learn from this
to use to accomplish this
motivation to keep going learning experience?
activity?
on?