Learning how to learn
https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn/home/info
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O96fE1E-rf8
http://bigthink.com/neurobonkers/assessing-the-evidence-for-the-one-thing-you-never-get-taught-in-school-how-to-learn
3. . We focus on “What” and ignore “How”.
. Difficulties learning something new.
. Everyone has a favorite style of learning.
. Our brains aren’t similar.
. Brains are very complex.
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4. . Depending on what we are learning,
we need to find a suitable way to do that.
. More senses used will make learning process
more effective .
. Reading, Writing, Saying, Listening.
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5. Learning How to Learn
What my brain likes
- Patterns, shapes and images.
- Colors.
- First information, Last information.
- Mind mapping.
6. 1- Elaborative Interrogation
- Put “Why” questions for yourself during learning.
- Efficient way but requires prior knowledge for the
subject.
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7. 2- Self Explanation
- How to understand and solve a problem.
- Putting reasons for choices made.
- Good for mathematical problems.
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4- Distributed Practice
- Attributed to interval of time to learn
something.
- To remember something for long time, study
it on a divided long time period.
- Test yourself between intervals of time.
10. 5- Practice Testing
- Necessary evil for learning.
- Best tool for evaluation.
- Set for yourself specific duration and result
for tests.
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11. 6- Summarisation
- Beneficial for written exams but less useful
for tests that doesn’t require students to
generate information.
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12. 7- Highlighting and Underlining
- Most favored techniques for almost
everyone learning.
- Found to be ineffective if it’s a stand alone
technique.
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13. 8- The keyword mnemonic
- Used to memorize information by linking
words to meanings based on what a word
means or how it sounds.
- Can be useful in short term.
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14. . Before learning something new, try to find out
which technique is suitable.
. Combining more than one technique will help
you for better understanding.
. Sometimes understanding isn’t enough and
you have to engage in practicing and repeating
to be more skilled.
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15. .Too much focus when learning something for
the first time put too much pressure on the brain.
so relax and focus again.
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17. Slow thinking isn’t very bad, it will make you pay
full attention to every detail.
. Learning also can be boosted through
- Exercising
- Put goals for yourself
- Organize your time
- Recalling
- Don’t rely on understanding
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