Not just Memorizing but Learning
 “Learning is too important to be left behind in the
classroom”(Terry Sejnovsky- video how to become a better learner).
 Many things happen in our life that make us realize
that we need to learn and what we want to learn
and learning to learn perhaps forever .
 Nowadays avoid procrastrinating, build chunks
and deliberate practice are tools that may help us to
LEARN and not to memorize only .
Not just Memorizing but Learning
 By
 German Benitez
 E mail : gedabenitez05@gmail.com
Not just Memorizing but Learning
 Procrastinating
 Chunking
 Deliberate practice
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 Procrastination is very
common ,the people
everyday postpone
something in spite of
being aware that doing
that, will be very
expensive in a lot of
ways.
Procrastinating
procrastination
 Procrastination negatively affects individual
performance specially when became chronic.
 It is clasiffied as a self –regulation failure, as weak
will power.
 It is very frequent in the academic comunity and
among the general population.
Reducing Procrastination by Scaffolding the Formation of Implementation Intentions
Kamphorst, B.A. (2012) Faculty of Humanities Theses.(Master thesis)
URL http://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/218601
New and Hard challenge?
Later¡¡ ……….
Perhaps (as
always)
 Finally (as always)
Procrastinating
Having a “goal
intention” is not
enough.
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 To overcome the “intention
behavior gap”
(procrastination….
postponing everything to the next
time), having a “goal intention” is
not enough.
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How to
overcome
procrasti
nation???
"A journey of a thousand
miles begins with the
first step "
Confucius
New habits
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How to overcome procrastination???
 Implementation intentions
 To overcome the Procrastination (intention-behavior
gap), it helps to furnish goal intentions with concrete
and specific plans.
IMPLEMENTATION INTENTIONS
 ¡¿How is it?¡¡
 The most effective implementation intentions consist of a cue
in the environment coupled with an intended action
IMPLEMENTATION INTENTIONS
 FOR EXAMPLE
 ¡¿WHAT IS MY OWN PROCRASTINATION?
 WATCHING TV NEWS JUST WHEN I HAVE TO
PRACTICE THAT DANCE THAT I THINK I COULD
NEVER LEARN¡¡
 SO?
IMPLEMENTATION INTENTIONS
 AS SOON AS CABLE NEWS START
TRANSMISSION
 I WILL START TO PRACTICE THAT IMPOSSIBLE
FIRST DANCE STEP AS A ROUTINE TO LEARN A
DANCE WHICH IS NOT FROM MY COUNTRY
 INSTEAD OF JUST WATCHING TV
IMPLEMENTATION INTENTIONS
 DIDN´T WORK?
 OK
 NEXT TIME AS SOON AS TV NEWS START TURN-
OFF TV AND BEGIN TO PRACTICE YOUR
LESSON.
 THEN TURN-ON AND WATCH TV A FEW
MINUTES.ONLY A FEW.
 THEN REPEAT WHAT YOU THINK YOU
LEARNED¡
IMPLEMENTATION INTENTIONS
 WORKED?
 CONGRATULATIONS YOU DESERVE A REWARD
 DIDN´T WORK?
 GO TO SLEEP AND TRY AGAIN IN THE
MORNING
Little by little
• The most effective implementation intentions consist of a cue in
the environment coupled with an intended action.
• Sometimes it doesn´t work et all from the beginning
however helps .
• Always…
• Little by little until the first step.
FIRST STEP
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FIRST STEP
BEGIN THE BEGGINING
EUREKA¡
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START THE HOMEWORK OR
WHATEVER YOU HAVE TO
NEW AND HARD
CHALLENGE?
AFTER FIRST STEP
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FOCUS TEN MINUTES
OR TWENTY FIVE
T A K E A L I T T L E B R E A K A N D S T A R T A G A I N
YOU DID IT?
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"A journey of a thousand miles begins
with the first step “ Confucius
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 Animals can learn and
remember.
 They can not planning
or have a language
Everybody can learn
Chunk
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 You cannot eat a big
chocolate at once.
 Try to eat chunk by
chunk .
 Taste it
 Smell it
 Feel it
 Enjoy it
Chunk
Chunk
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 Learning new and difficult topics
maybe as tasting one unknown
Chocolate
First not all the chocolate are
sweet or brown ,nonetheless
when you try with a little chunk
you can appreciate something you
wouldn´t have appreciated
otherwise.
TAI CHI
Tai chi learning process is a very good
tool to learn whatever you need to learn
 CLASSIC TAI CHI YANG STYLE IS CONFORMED BY 85
MOVEMENTS
 CROSS HANDS ARE “CHAPTERS” OF THIS KIND OF TAI
CHI
 “CROSS HAND” IS COMPOSSED BY A NUMBER OF
MOVEMENTS
 WHEN YOU ARE LEARNING TAI CHI THE MASTER GIVES
YOU INSTRUCTIONS TO PRACTICE AND LEARNING
 ONE MOVEMENT EVERY WEEK
 Tai chi is a martial art and prpares you for a real fight
where each movement is important
 On your daily practice if you doný have time enough to
achieve the whole routine, repeat one “cross hand”the
best as you can and so will be easier acquiring Mastery
 Tai chi learning process is a very good tool to learn
generally speaking¡
Chunk
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media/287497/view
CHUNK
 Tai chi learning
process is a very good
tool to learn whatever
you need to learn
 The movements are
meaningful named
 Describing an action or
an animal movement or a
quality of that movement
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Chunk
Tai chi
 Master told me a couple of
ancient Chinese secrets:
 Practice the 85 movements
every day. If you
can´t….Practice every day
¡¡
 If yow perfectly Know the
first “cross hand”
automatically you will
improve your total 85
movements performance.
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Chunk
 Once you have started to overcome procrastination
 Chunks meaningful are the blocks to build whatever
you are learning
 The major secret :
• EVERY DAY
Tai chi learning process is a
very good tool to learn whatever
you need to learn
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 Finally I asked my
master
 ¿what movement of the
first cross hand shall I
practice?
 He answered
 First “THE
HARDEST”
Deliberate practice
 Improves your
performance and avoid
a learning delusion
Deliberate practice
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High performance
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 Learning is possible
 Always
 In spanish we said
 “loro viejo no aprende
a hablar”(old parrot
doesn´t learn to speak)
 W e are not Parrots¡¡
Mastery
Learning Always
 LO MO SE CO
Every day in spanish I use this word to work
 LOcalizacion
 MOdalidades
 SEnsaciones y
 COncomitancias.
De los síntomas de mis pacientes
 Overcome procrastrinating
 Chunk
 Practicing the hardest
 Finally everyday or little by little will make us
better learners
 THANKS

Not memorizing but learning