An overview of the process of learning and forgetting, and the role of spaced repetition systems (and the software designed to facilitate it) in improving learning
Z Score,T Score, Percential Rank and Box Plot Graph
Learning and Retaining Information - Spaced Repetition Systems
1. DESCRIBING A METHOD FOR MANAGING
LARGE PIECES OF INFORMATION THAT
YOU NEED TO RETAIN
Learning and Retaining
Information
Friday, October 22, 2021
2. What do we want to discuss?
1. The natural history of learning in the
college of medicine
2. Why we want to change that
3. Two keys for better learning
4. The spacing effect
5. Systems for applying the spacing effect
6. Using Anki as an SRS
7. Formulating knowledge
8. The intention for learning
9. Questions and answers
3. 1. The natural history of learning in the college
of medicine
Holding tomes of knowledge (temporarily)
4. 1. The natural history of learning in the college
of medicine
Medical knowledge from start to graduation
6. Where are we now?
1. The natural history of learning in the college of
medicine
2. Why we want to change that
3. Two keys for better learning
4. The spacing effect
5. Systems for applying the spacing effect
6. Using Anki as an SRS
7. Formulating knowledge
8. The intention for learning
9. Questions and answers
7. 2. Why we want to change that
Build foundations
8. 2. Why we want to change that
Integrate things together
9. 2. Why we want to change that
More efficient retention of
knowledge till graduation
10. Where are we now?
1. The natural history of learning in the college of
medicine
2. Why we want to change that
3. Two keys for better learning
4. The spacing effect
5. Systems for applying the spacing effect
6. Using Anki as an SRS
7. Formulating knowledge
8. The intention for learning
9. Questions and answers
17. Where are we now?
1. The natural history of learning in the college of
medicine
2. Why we want to change that
3. Two keys for better learning
4. The spacing effect
5. Systems for applying the spacing effect
6. Using Anki as an SRS
7. Formulating knowledge
8. The intention for learning
9. Questions and answers
18. 4. The spacing effect
There is a memory
curve. You only need
to repeat at the right
intervals to efficiently
retain information.
Hermann Ebbinghaus
21. But how am I going to
calculate the intervals?!
22. Where are we now?
1. The natural history of learning in the college of
medicine
2. Why we want to change that
3. Two keys for better learning
4. The spacing effect
5. Systems for applying the spacing effect
6. Using Anki as an SRS
7. Formulating knowledge
8. The intention for learning
9. Questions and answers
23. 5. Systems for applying the spacing effect
Leitner system
24. 5. Systems for applying the spacing effect
SRSs – Spaced Repetition Systems
25. Where are we now?
1. The natural history of learning in the college of
medicine
2. Why we want to change that
3. Two keys for better learning
4. The spacing effect
5. Systems for applying the spacing effect
6. Using Anki as an SRS
7. Formulating knowledge
8. The intention for learning
9. Questions and answers
28. Where are we now?
1. The natural history of learning in the college of
medicine
2. Why we want to change that
3. Two keys for better learning
4. The spacing effect
5. Systems for applying the spacing effect
6. Using Anki as an SRS
7. Formulating knowledge
8. The intention for learning
9. Questions and answers
29. 7. Formulating knowledge
Do not learn if you do not understand
Soon you may pollute your learning process with a great deal
of useless material that treacherously makes you believe "it will
be useful some day".
Learn before you memorize
Before you proceed with memorizing individual facts and
rules, you need to build an overall picture of the learned
knowledge.
Build upon the basics
The simpler the overall picture the better. Do not neglect the
basics.
31. 7. Formulating knowledge
Minimum information principle
We want a minimum amount of
information to be retrieved from
memory in a single repetition! We
want the answer to be as short as
imaginably possible!
32. 7. Formulating knowledge
Minimum information principle – Example
Bad question formulation
Describe Burkitt lymphoma.
Good question formulation
Which virus is associated with Burkitt lymphoma?
What is the translocation?
What are its types (i.e. variants)?
What is the characteristic histological picture?
etc…
33. Where are we now?
1. The natural history of learning in the college of
medicine
2. Why we want to change that
3. Two keys for better learning
4. The spacing effect
5. Systems for applying the spacing effect
6. Using Anki as an SRS
7. Formulating knowledge
8. The intention for learning
9. Questions and answers
36. “For He loves it that if you do
something, you perfect it.”
37. Where are we now?
1. The natural history of learning in the college of
medicine
2. Why we want to change that
3. Two keys for better learning
4. The spacing effect
5. Systems for applying the spacing effect
6. Using Anki as an SRS
7. Formulating knowledge
8. The intention for learning
9. Questions and answers
38. 9. Questions and answers
What if I ignore a day of studying my cards?
What if I ignore studying for a week or more?
How can I save and backup my cards?
Other questions?
39. Some resources
20 rules of formulating knowledge in learning (very
important; also explore other articles on the website)
http://www.supermemo.com/articles/20rules.htm
Anki Documentation (information on how to use Anki)
http://ankisrs.net/docs/
Anki All the Way (a review of why Anki is a good SRS; the
website is itself a compilation of reviews of SRSs)
http://foolsworkshop.com/reviews/anki-all-the-way
Search Google for terms like “spaced repetition” and
follow the links
40. Thank you for listening.
And all praise is due to Allah .
