Learning new skills in one month can be achieved through effective learning techniques backed by science. These include saying information out loud to improve memory recall, taking handwritten notes which enhances comprehension, and spacing out study sessions over time which makes information easier to retain. Testing yourself frequently, modifying your practice methods, exercising regularly, sleeping more, interleaving different subject learning, teaching others, and relating new knowledge to existing knowledge are other effective strategies supported by research to accelerate learning.
Minha apresentação sobre parte dos tópicos cobertos no curso *Learning how to Learn* da _Coursera_, feita para um dos Assignments.
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https://class.coursera.org/learning-003
A guide to take you through how to use the training materials for the PMSD Roadmap.
Includes a collection of all of the Top Facilitation Tips used in the training materials, which can be used to provide guidance when running the training sessions, and also as tips for the participants themselves.
Tips created by Lindsay Berresford.
Last updated 21/06/12
"Learning How to Learn" gives you powerful mental tools that will enable you learn tough-to-master subjects, more effectively.
This presentation is my humble thanks to Barbara Oakley, the trainer of this MOOC. She really opened up mind to these fantastic learning tools.
In this slide presentation, I’ll cover four common study techniques, tell you whether they are effective and explain how to get the most out of them so your study time is focused and useful.
A guide to take you through how to use the training materials for the PMSD Roadmap.
Includes a collection of all of the Top Facilitation Tips used in the training materials, which can be used to provide guidance when running the training sessions, and also as tips for the participants themselves.
Tips created by Lindsay Berresford.
Last updated 21/06/12
"Learning How to Learn" gives you powerful mental tools that will enable you learn tough-to-master subjects, more effectively.
This presentation is my humble thanks to Barbara Oakley, the trainer of this MOOC. She really opened up mind to these fantastic learning tools.
In this slide presentation, I’ll cover four common study techniques, tell you whether they are effective and explain how to get the most out of them so your study time is focused and useful.
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Good study habits are essential for academic success in high school, college, and beyond. From this lesson plan, students will learn how certain behaviors and practices can lead to better long-term memory, reasoning, attention, problem solving, and ultimately, greater academic success.
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10 Memory Improvement Techniques to Enhance Your Learning Skills.pdfNazma Ansari
In addition to visualization, mnemonic devices, exercise, sleep, and a healthy diet, several other strategies can significantly contribute to improving memory retention and cognitive function.
1. **Mentally Stimulating Activities**: Engaging in activities that challenge the brain can help improve memory and cognitive abilities. This includes puzzles, crossword puzzles, sudoku, logic games, and learning new skills or languages. These activities stimulate various areas of the brain, encouraging the formation of new neural connections and promoting cognitive flexibility.
2. **Mindfulness and Stress Reduction**: Chronic stress can negatively impact memory and cognitive function. Practicing mindfulness techniques such as meditation, deep breathing exercises, or yoga can help reduce stress levels and improve focus and memory. Mindfulness encourages present-moment awareness, allowing individuals to better concentrate on tasks and retain information more effectively.
3. **Social Interaction**: Maintaining social connections and engaging in meaningful interactions is essential for cognitive health. Socializing stimulates the brain, promotes emotional well-being, and provides opportunities for learning and memory consolidation through shared experiences and conversations. Regular social interaction can also help reduce the risk of cognitive decline and memory loss associated with aging.
4. **Regular Mental Breaks and Relaxation**: Giving the brain time to rest and recharge is crucial for optimal cognitive function. Overworking the brain without breaks can lead to mental fatigue and decreased memory performance. Taking short breaks throughout the day, practicing relaxation techniques such as progressive muscle relaxation or mindfulness meditation, or engaging in hobbies and leisure activities can help rejuvenate the mind and support better memory retention.
5. **Continuous Learning**: Lifelong learning is key to maintaining cognitive function and memory as we age. Whether it's taking classes, attending workshops, or reading books on various subjects, exposing the brain to new information and experiences helps keep it active and engaged. Learning stimulates neural plasticity, the brain's ability to adapt and reorganize itself, which is essential for memory formation and retention.
By incorporating these additional strategies into daily life along with visualization, mnemonic devices, exercise, sleep, and a healthy diet, individuals can create a comprehensive approach to enhancing memory retention and cognitive function. This holistic approach not only strengthens memory but also promotes overall brain health and well-being, enabling individuals to thrive in their personal and professional lives with a sharper mind and improved cognitive abilities.
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1. Learning new skill in one month
While it's nice to think you can hack your way to success, whenever you try
to accomplish a huge goal -- like starting and growing a business -- skills
matter. Who you know is certainly important.
But what you know, and what you can do, matters a whole lot more.
Which means the faster you learn, the more successful you can be.
So let's jump right in.Here are ten ways, backed by science, to speed up the
learning process.
2. 1. Say out loud what you want to remember.
Research shows that compared to reading or thinking silently (as if there's
another way to think), the act of speech is a "quite powerful mechanism for
improving memory for selected information."
According to scientists, "Learning and memory benefit from active
involvement. When we add an active measure or a production element to a
word, that word becomes more distinct in long-term memory, and hence more
memorable."
In short, while mentally rehearsing is good, rehearsing out loud is even better.
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2. Take notes by hand, not on a computer.
Most of us can type faster than we can write. (And a lot more neatly.)
But research shows handwriting your notes means you'll learn more. Oddly
enough, taking notes by hand enhances both comprehension and retention,
3. possibly because instead of just serving as a quasi-stenographer, you're forced
to put things in your own words in order to keep up.
Which means you'll remember what you heard a lot longer.
Maybe that's why Richard Branson has maintained a lifelong habit of keeping
a handwritten journal?
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3. Chunk your study sessions.
You're busy. So you wait until the last minute to learn what you need to
know: A presentation, a sales demo, an investor pitch...
Bad idea. Research shows "distributed practice" is a much more effective
way to learn.
Imagine you want to nail your investor pitch. Once you've drafted your pitch,
run through it once. Then take a few minutes to make corrections and
revisions.
4. Then step away for a few hours, or even for a day, before you repeat the
process.
Why does distributed practice work? The "study-phase retrieval theory" says
that each time you attempt to retrieve something from memory and the
retrieval is more successful, that memory becomes harder to forget. (If you go
over your pitch repeatedly, much of your presentation is still top of mind...
which means you don't have to retrieve it from memory.)
Another theory regards "contextual variability." When information gets
encoded into memory, some of the context is also encoded. (Which is why
listening to an old song can cause you to remember where you were, what
you were feeling, etc., when you first heard that song.) That context creates
useful cues for retrieving information.
Regardless of how it works, distributed practice definitely works. So give
yourself enough time to space out your learning sessions. You'll learn more
efficiently and more effectively.
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5. 4. Test yourself. A lot.
A number of studies show that self-testing is an extremely effective way to
speed up the learning process.
Partly that's due to the additional context created; if you test yourself and
answer incorrectly, not only are you more likely to remember the right
answer after you look it up... you'll also remember that you didn't remember.
(Getting something wrong is a great way to remember it the next time,
especially if you tend to be hard on yourself.)
So don't just rehearse your presentation. Test yourself on what comes after
your intro. Test yourself by listing the five main points you want to make. Try
to recite key statistics, or sales estimates, or cash flow projections....
Not only will you gain confidence in how much you do know, you'll more
quickly learn the things you don't know.
Yet.
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6. 5. Change the way you practice.
Repeating anything over and over again in the hopes you will master that task
will not only keep you from improving as quickly as you could, in some
cases it may actually decrease your skill.
According to recent research from Johns Hopkins, if you practice a slightly
modified version of a task you want to master, "you actually learn more and
faster than if you just keep practicing the exact same thing multiple times in a
row." The most likely cause is reconsolidation, a process where existing
memories are recalled and modified with new knowledge.
Say you want to master a new presentation. Do this:
1. Rehearse the basic skill. Run through your presentation a couple of times
under the same conditions you'll eventually face when you do it live.
Naturally, the second time through will be better than the first; that's how
practice works. But then, instead of going through it a third time ...
7. 2. Wait. Give yourself at least six hours so your memory can consolidate.
(Which probably means waiting until tomorrow before you practice again,
which is just fine.)
3. Practice again, but this time...
● Go a little faster. Speak a little -- just a little -- faster than you
normally do. Run through your slides slightly faster. Increasing
your speed means you'll make more mistakes, but that's OK -- in
the process, you'll modify old knowledge with new knowledge --
and lay the groundwork for improvement. Or ...
● Go a little slower. The same thing will happen. (Plus, you can
experiment with new techniques -- including the use of silence for
effect -- that aren't apparent when you present at your normal
speed.) Or ...
● Break your presentation into smaller chunks. Almost every
task includes a series of discrete steps. That's definitely true for
presentations. Pick one section of your presentation. Deconstruct
it. Master it. Then put the whole presentation back together. Or ...
8. ● Change the conditions. Use a different projector. Or a different
remote. Or a lavaliere instead of a headset mic. Switch up the
conditions slightly; not only will that help you modify an existing
memory, it will also make you better prepared for the unexpected.
4. And keep modifying the conditions.
You can extend the process to almost anything. While it's clearly effective for
learning motor skills, the process can also be applied to learning almost
anything.
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6. Exercise regularly.
This study shows that regular exercise can improve memory recall. Another
study from McMaster University found that periods of high-intensity exercise
are good for fitness and memory: Exercise resulted in significant
improvements in high-interference memory. (Interference occurs when
9. information that is similar gets in the way of the information you're trying to
recall.)
A commonly used example for high-interference memory is remembering
faces, a skill that is especially useful for people hoping to make connections.
Exercise also resulted in an increase in a chemical called BDNF
(brain-derived neurotrophic factor), a protein that supports the function,
growth, and survival of brain cells.
So: Not only will you feel better if you exercise, you'll also improve your
memory.
Win-win.
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7. Get more sleep.
Sleep is when most of the memory consolidation process occurs. That's why
even a short nap can improve your memory recall.
10. In one study participants memorized illustrated cards to test their memory
strength. After memorizing a set of cards they took a 40-minute break and
one group napped while the other group stayed awake. After the break both
groups were tested on their memory of the cards. The sleep group performed
significantly better, retaining on average 85 percent of the patterns compared
to 60 percent for those who had remained awake.
Researchers have also found that sleep deprivation can affect your ability to
commit new information to memory and consolidate any short-term
memories you have made.
Bottom line? Sleep more, learn more.
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8. Learn several subjects in succession.
Instead of blocking (focusing on one subject, one task, or one skill during a
learning session) learn or practice several subjects or skills in succession.
11. The process is called interleaving: Studying related concepts or skills in
parallel. And it turns out interleaving is a much more effective way to train
your brain (and your motor skills.)
Why? One theory is that interleaving improves your brain's ability to
differentiate between concepts or skills. When you block practice one skill,
you can drill down until muscle memory takes over and the skill becomes
more or less automatic. When you interleave several skills, any one skill can't
become mindless -- and that's a good thing. Instead you're constantly forced
to adapt and adjust. You're constantly forced to see, feel, and discriminate
between different movements or different concepts.
And that helps you really learn what you're trying to learn, because you it
helps you gain understanding at a deeper level.
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9. Teach someone else.
12. It may be occasionally true that those who can't, teach... but research shows
it's definitely true that those who teach speed up their learning and retain
more.
Even just thinking that you'll need to teach someone can make you learn
more effectively. According to the researchers, "When teachers prepare to
teach, they tend to seek out key points and organize information into a
coherent structure. Our results suggest that students also turn to these types of
effective learning strategies when they expect to teach."
The act of teaching also helps improve knowledge. Ask anyone who has
trained someone else whether they also benefited from the experience.
They definitely did.
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10. Build on things you do know.
Relating something new to something you're familiar with is called
associative learning. Not the Pavlov's dog form of associative learning, but
13. the kind where you learn the relationship between seemingly unrelated
things.
In simple terms, whenever you say, "Oh, I get it... this is basically like that,"
you're using associative learning.
Need to learn something new? Try to associate it, at least in part, with
something you already know. Then you only have to learn the differences or
nuances. And you'll be able to apply greater context -- which will help with
memory storage and retrieval -- to the new information you learn.
All of which means you'll need to learn a lot less.
Which science says will result in you being able to learn a lot more quickly.
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Credit to : inc.com
https://www.inc.com/jeff-haden/these-10-scientific-ways-to-learn-anything-faster-could-change-everyt
hing-you-know-about-dramatically-improving-your-memory.html