15 Surprising Discoveries About Learning
What are some of the most encouraging known facts about learning? From taking a walk to learning a new language, there are countless things we can do to improve the way we learn. Below we list fifteen steps toward a better brain: 1.
Learn On Your Own: Independent Scholar Resource Plan
One of the most challenging and gratifying parts of learning alone is the opportunity to search for and select your own learning material. Students in traditional classrooms usually don’t get to decide how they are going to master course content. Instructors decide for them in the form of textbook selection, quizzes, tests, group projects, etc. As an independent learner, you can make your study time more effective by using only the learning methods that work for you. A resource plan is a document used to brainstorm the learning material you can use when you begin your studies. Before you write a step-by-step schedule, think of every resource that is available to you (such as books, websites, knowledgeable people, etc).
Beating the Forgetting Curve with Distributed Practice
“If you read the research on how much people forget after training, it’s depressing. Do a search for the ‘Forgetting Curve’. Once we know something like this, we need to change our approach and educate others.”- Connie Malamed (The eLearning Coach)The above quote is from our interview with Connie Malamed.
5 Steps to Reinvent Yourself
“You’re never too old to set another goal or dream a new dream.” ~C. S. Lewis
Learn Difficult Concepts with the ADEPT Method
After a decade of writing explanations, I’ve simplified the strategy I use to get new concepts to click. Make explanations ADEPT: Use an Analogy, Diagram, Example, Plain-English description, and then a Technical description. Here’s how to teach yourself a difficult idea, or explain one to others. Analogy: What Else Is It Like? Most new concepts are variations, extensions, or combinations of what we already know. So start there!
The Self-Taught Master: How To Become An Autodidact LonerWolf
Ray Bradbury, Frank Zappa, Stanley Kubrick, Benjamin Franklin, Malcolm X, Julian Assange … some of the greatest and most successful people in history were autodidacts. As author and autodidact Helen Beatrix Potter once noted: “thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of my originality.” In a world where formal education is the only respected form of learning, it’s no wonder that many of us opt to dish out thousands of dollars to be “taken seriously”, over the more contemplative and powerful form of self-education. In fact, many of the most passionate and talented writers, artists, film directors, philosophers and musicians were vehemently against traditional forms of education.
Learning Techniques
One of the things that we expect you to pick up by osmosis, but almost never mention explicitly, is techniques for learning itself. After you leave university, you will be expected to be able to learn by yourself for the rest of your life. And an hour spent addressing the meta-issue of learning skills pays off in reduced time to actually learn. A lot of work has been done over the past few decades about how people learn.
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A Learning Secret: Don’t Take Notes with a Laptop
“More is better.” From the number of gigs in a cellular data plan to the horsepower in a pickup truck, this mantra is ubiquitous in American culture. When it comes to college students, the belief that more is better may underlie their widely-held view that laptops in the classroom enhance their academic performance. Laptops do in fact allow students to do more, like engage in online activities and demonstrations, collaborate more easily on papers and projects, access information from the internet, and take more notes.
Chapter 2 - Principles of Magnetic Resonance Imaging
2.4 Image Contrast in Biological Imaging Unlike many other medical imaging modalities, the contrast in an MR image is strongly dependent upon the way the image is acquired. By adding r.f. or gradient pulses, and by careful choice of timings, it is possible to highlight different components in the object being imaged. In the sequence descriptions that follow it is assumed that the imaging method used is EPI, however identical or similar methods can be used with the other MR imaging techniques outlined above. The basis of contrast is the spin density throughout the object. If there are no spins present in a region it is not possible to get an NMR signal at all.
35 Psychological Tricks To Help You Learn Better
Have you ever considered letting your students listen to hardcore punk while they take their mid-term exam? Decided to do away with Power Point presentations during your lectures? Urged your students to memorize more in order to remember more? If the answer is no, you may want to rethink your notions of psychology and its place in the learning environment. Below are 35 proven psychological phenomena that affect you and your students every day: 1.
25 daily habits that are killing your productivity
Some days it seems almost impossible to be productive. There are beeps and buzzes coming from your phone and calendar notifications on your laptop for upcoming meetings. These are just a few of the distractions that small business owners and employees experience on a daily basis. To fight the distractions and stay on top of things we try different productivity hacks. Most of the time they’re ineffective. In order to be more productive during the day, try removing these 25 daily habits that are killing your productivity.
From Self-Discovery to Learning Agility in Senior Executives by Suzanne Goebel, Richard Baskerville
Suzanne Goebel Georgia State University Richard Baskerville Georgia State UniversitySeptember 20, 2013
