Task: Optimizing Working Memory - Finding your mnemonic strategy

1. Choose something you need to remember: In one of your courses , choose something that is challenging for you to remember and that you really need to know. Typically these are foundational networks, concepts, terms, steps, sequences that you just have to know and be able to recall in order to use them in any way

2. Review the Mnemonic strategies in the strategy library

3. Pick one you think will work for you

4. Create a mnemonic

5. Share and discuss as a class

6. Test it out this week and then add it to your SRL Advice Column

Challenge for me: remember 9 steps in cost and benefit analysis in ECON 416

1.Specify the portfolio of alternative projects

2.Define the referent group

3.Catalogue potential impacts and select measurement indicators

4.Predict quantitative impacts over the life of the project

5.Monetize all impacts

6.Discount all costs and benefits and calculate the net present value (NPV)

7.Identify the distribution of costs and benefits

8.Perform sensitivity testing

9. Make a recommendation