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- 1. How your lifein college can be easier learn Learning to
- 2. Read, underline, make summaries,prepare mind maps If you read your textbook at least 7 times, you’ll be fine. Read again and again Is it the answer? .
- 3. Read, underline, makesummaries prepare mind maps I you read your textbook at least 7 times, you’ll be fine. Read again and again Is it the answer? NO!
- 4. Overlearning • When weread the same notes again and again, they become familiar
- 5. Illusion of competence •As the material becomes familiar, we gain fluency • There is a feeling we already know the material • In fact, we don’t
- 6. Use focused modeduring lectures Review your notes later that day Practice and test Go for a walk or otherwise use the diffused mode There is a better way
- 7. Focused mode • Allowsthe mind to recognize familiar patterns • Problems related to these patterns are easily solved • Works in a sequencial way – step by step reasoning
- 8. Allow no distractions Keepyour mobile turned off. Do not sit next to your best friend Try to follow the lecture. Take notes of the key points Try to connect what’s being said to other things you already know At the end of the lecture, write a brief summary of the main points covered Focused mode
- 9. Revision allows theinformation to find a place in the large store of the long term memory Start chunk formation Review your notes later that day
- 10. Chunk formation • Usefocused attention • Understand the problem • Practice New chunks will be placed in your hanger (long term memory)
- 11. Chunk formation Simple understanding how aproblem is solved does not necessarily create a chunk that can be used later
- 12. Close the bookand try to solve the problem by yourself The chunk (creation of neural patterns) will only be created by doing it yourself Top down learning Understanding the big picture
- 13. Practice As the saying goes,Repetition is the mother of skill
- 14. Deliberate Practice Focus onthe most difficult part Spaced repetition Review frequently Bottom up learning How the chunk fits in the big picture .
- 15. We can alsolook at chunks as if they were a puzzle. In the beginning, it is difficult to place the pieces.
- 16. We can alsolook at chunks as if they were a puzzle. We then get some pieces together – they can be seen as a chunk. The more chunks we have, the easiest it gets to place the next piece
- 17. We can alsolook at chunks as if they were a puzzle. Even if we did not know how the puzzle would look like, we start to see the big picture after having done some chunks.
- 18. If you thinkit is difficult to find the will to do the Practice…
- 19. Use a Pomodoro •Find a place where you can be concentrated • Shut out all interruptions • Work for 25 minutes
- 20. Use flashcards Test yourself •Do it consistently for short periods of time • Recall will allow the information to be stored in the long term memory • Use manual or computarized flash cards • In any case, make your own – you are the only person to know what you need to learn!
- 21. Do it everyday (ok, you can take Sunday off) Eventually all the new concepts will be safely kept in the long term memory. New concepts will be easier to grasp, because you have now more chunks, more hangers to help connect the new material.
- 22. Revisions • Recall andthink about the material in different places than the one where you first learned it • It increases the neural connections
- 23. Go for awalk or otherwise use the diffused mode There is a better way
- 24. Diffused mode • Nowit is time for your brain to work on the material at his own pace • You can take a nap, go for a walk, go clean your room , and your brain will be working on the material
- 25. What we talkedabout Do you recall all the topics? Focused mode Chunks . OverlearningDeliberate Practice Spaced repetition Diffused mode Pomodoro Test yourself Illusion of competence .
- 26. Happy learning! . Don’t forgetyour diffused time!
- 27. Credits • Content isbased on the materials covered in the course “Learning how to learn”, Dr. Barbara Oakley and Dr. Terrence Sejnowski • PowerPoint presentation template:Presenter Media • Cliparts – Presenter Media and Office.com • Photographs – my own