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5 Techniques of Every Successful Student
key takeaways:
★ background:
main theme: build the bigger picture first
he talks about trends he notices between his students that are successful vs unsuccessful
threshold concepts: refers to core concepts in a subject where understanding these concepts is key to transforming the way students understand a whole subject.
a threshold concept can be described as transformative (a significant shift in understanding), probably irreversible (difficult to unlearn), integrative (reveals the association between various topics), sometimes bounded (specific to a particular discipline), and potentially troublesome (difficult to grasp, counter-intuitive)
in simple terms: provides a barrier to allow someone to see and understand a topic in a way they were never able to before
example of experiencing a threshold concept is stumbling over a block in the dark and you're suddenly lost and confused, you don't know where you are- disorientated. like when you're listening to the teacher and suddenly, you don't know what they're talking about anymore. when you're reading a book and you don't know what you just read. you lost your way and you don't know how you lost your way.
what we want is to have lightbulb moments more frequently. have more control to increase the speed of our learning. we want to be able ot overcome these threshold concepts as quickly as possible to become a learner who just gets things a lot faster
in order to do that: we fundamentally need to understand: there are a few fundamentals to learning that affects the student.
★ learning
learning is recursive. learning something once and relearning it over and over again. not that we didn't understand it the first time but it's better and easier to understand when you've known the basics/the foundation of. the bigger picture.
and excursive. a learning journey that has allowances for diversions. you can progress through the material and you don't always have to go in a linear line, you can go back and forth, have multiple different ways of learning something. take diversions and side routes to get to the same place of understanding the concept.
what are some techniques that allows us to engage in active learning in a sustainable, consistent way that anyone can start applying?
it's not the techniques itself but the trends they follow aka crafting the bigger picture.
★ attributes of a good learner
1. priming
pre-study. instead of looking a piece of text and learning it, top from bottom straight away. scan it to get a general understanding.
mentally create a framework on how to think about it instead of what to know. read the heading, images, diagrams, questions.
create a mind map on how the big pictures connect to one another.
don't worry about the details.
big picture = easier lightbulb moments = faster threshold concept = faster learning.
2. how to stay active and attentive while in the class:
for those who start to feel drowsy, sleepy, unable to pay attention. think about needing to be aware if someone is about to throw a ball at you. with information, you have to be ready to catch that information that you are consuming.
ask questions, aloud or inside your mind. lots of questions. questions every minute. if you ask a HOW and WHY question, it causes us to relate that question at a higher mastery of knowledge. not only do you want/need to understand a single concept but the relationship that, that has with other multiple related concepts to see how does it fit together.
3. revision within 12 hours of the initial learning event.
the longer you wait, the higher risk that you're going to forget. you reap higher benefits if you were to review the same day rather than 2 days ahead .
reviewing the same day also maximizes SDMC (sleep dependent memory consolidation) aka "studying while you're asleep" your neural pathways that were active during your learning session repeat while you're asleep. think of it as rewinding a tape. this action in the brain causes neural pathways to strengthen with this repetition.
the way you review is important. make sure it highlights, again, the big picture. chunking aka taking the pieces of information from your learning session and priming to connect it all together. like a puzzle. creating a mind map is a good way to do this.
don't try to use too many words. if you don't use words in your notes, this activates parts of the brain that normally would not be activated if you were to use words. make words and sentences a last resort.
make it reasonably minimal. learning comes naturally and authentically. you don't need to write so many notes (ironic bc i'm... taking... notes....). humans are naturally good at learning. adapting. writing too many notes actually reduces cognitive load. aka the confusion we get. confusion is actually good for us. not too much but not too little either.
4. delayed note taking.
instead of taking notes right away, hold it off. keep the information in our heads a bit, think about it, let that confusion come in and let the brain do it's thing. asking those how and why questions
skip the paraphrasing and have simplified notes. in our head, not on paper. it helps the brain to rely on itself rather than on paper. when we get rid of that fear of having to write constantly in order to learn we unlock a huge opportunity for effective learning
5. pre-exam revision.
examine the topics that are most challenging to you. the things you feel the weakest on. make it challenging in a meaningful way. recall it instead of recognizing it.
learn in a way that is different each time. this is the best way to test your knowledge and connection to the subject. if you learn something in the same way every time, you saturate that technique to it's ability. and therefore, you won't have any room to improve/effectively learn.
for example, instead of rereading your notes, try to rewrite them or draw diagrams from your current knowledge aka recall.
another example of a technique is the feyman technique.
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