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. Pam Schiller and Clarissa A. 2. Recent research at Griffith University has found that personality is more important than intelligence when it comes to success in education. Dr Poropat says educational institutions need to focus less upon intelligence and instead pay more attention to each student’s personality. “With respect to learning, personality is more useful than intelligence for guiding both students and teachers,” Dr Poropat said. Dr Poropat said the best news for students is that it’s possible to develop the most important personality traits linked with academic success. Personality does change, and some educators have trained aspects of students Conscientiousness and Openness, leading to greater learning capacity. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13.
How to Teach Yourself Anything in Less Than Three Months Self-education can be wonderful and frustrating at the same time. If you go about it correctly, you can teach yourself anything in just a few months. Poorly applied, however, self-education can be a stressful nightmare. I’d like to share my tips to achieve the former and avoid the latter. My self-education has been fairly extensive. Self-education is good for just about any branch of knowledge or skills you want to acquire. Learn a new language. Learning something in only three months takes a bit more than casual trial-and-error. Know the end. This website is supported, in part, by affiliate arrangements (usually Amazon). Debate is fine, flaming is not.
Blake Boles: 12 Ways to Educate Yourself Without College It's popular to criticize college today. No matter which way you look, somebody is writing about a student loan horror story, declining academic standards, disruptive technological change, or the narrow work options available to graduates. Criticizing is easy, of course. Offering solutions is hard. The reality is that college fills many valuable roles today. But in an era of skyrocketing tuition fees combined with widespread economic austerity, millions of students will find themselves unable or unwilling to finance the college package deal. Luckily, higher education doesn't have to be delivered by a college institution. Self-directed learning is one solution to the college debate, and certainly not the only one. Here are 12 ways to begin pursuing your own self-directed higher education, right now, without college: Kickstart something. These are just a few ways to start giving yourself a well-rounded higher education without college.
zenhabits 5 Ways to Give Yourself an Education That Kicks the Crap Out of the One You Got in School 5 Ways to Give Yourself an Education That Kicks the Crap Out of the One You Got in School One of the biggest reasons that people are denied the privilege of education is because they can’t afford it. However, today we live in a world where knowledge and information are at our finger tips like never before. Technology has leveled the playing field so that anybody with an interest and an internet connection can receive a world class education. Bloggers, podcasters, search engines and digital content creators of all types of have made it possible for us to learn virtually anything we want to even if we don’t have the money. If you want to learn anything chances are there is somebody creating content about the subject and sharing it with the world at no cost. Self Motivation is Not Optional Taking this kind of approach to educating yourself requires an extremely high degree of self motivation. 1. 2. Want to learn how to get in shape? 3. 4. 5. Education as we know it is changing rapidly.
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. After our inspiring and thought-provoking interview with Connie Malamed, we were left wondering about the interesting human nature that is revealed with the ‘forgetting curve’, and its impact on learning design. We set out on a journey to explore and learn more about this phenomenon.Below are the questions we had in mind when we embarked on our journey: What is the ‘forgetting curve’? One of the most intriguing features of the human mind is that it is volatile in nature (just like the Random Access Memory (RAM) in a computer). These findings have great significance for learning professionals while developing learning interventions. Excerpts from Experts Infographics Presentations Articles
3 Ways to Teach Yourself Anything You Want to Learn If you look closely at people who are succeeding in this new digital world of work, you’ll notice they have something in common: they’re fast learners and willing to adapt. Even more importantly, they go out of their way to learn what they don’t know, to gain the skills and knowledge they need. Floating images of computers = my preferred method of learning. Because in the post-recession workplace, your company probably isn’t going to send you to a conference so you can learn that new skill that will make you an even more valuable employee. (And if your employer DOES send you to that conference, we all want to know who you work for.) Your boss probably doesn’t have time to hold your hand as you figure out how to use a new tool that will make your team more efficient. If you want to grow as a person and a worker, if you want to gain skills that will help you take that next step in your career, you’ll probably have to learn those skills on your own. 1. The best part? 2. 3.
Art Journalist » 365 One Word Art Journal Prompts Sometimes all you need to get going in your art journal is one word to inspire you. I like using one word journal prompts, as they can be tied into just about any theme or journal rather easily. And with one word, there’s a lot of freedom to do just about anything – you can interpret that one word any way you’d like! To help you get started, here is a list of 365 one word journal prompts to jump start your creativity. 1. I hope you enjoy this list of 365 one word journal prompt ideas and of course don’t forget to share this with others as well as check out our other Art Journal Prompts. Advertisement The following two tabs change content below. Hey there!
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. I recommend the work on accelerated learning by Colin Rose and Brian Tracy. You can learn anything if you have a goal that requires it. There are a number of stages to learning, each of which involves a number of aspects. The right state of mind There are six aspects to being in the right state of mind to learn. Here are the six aspects: Find a personal reason to want to learn this material. A variety of ways of input Here is a list of ways you can use variety in getting new material: Play to your strengths in terms of how you process information. Memorising Showing you know
The Sad, Beautiful Fact That We're All Going To Miss Almost Everything : Monkey See iStockphoto.com The vast majority of the world's books, music, films, television and art, you will never see. It's just numbers. Consider books alone. Let's say you read two a week, and sometimes you take on a long one that takes you a whole week. That's quite a brisk pace for the average person. Let's do you another favor: Let's further assume you limit yourself to books from the last, say, 250 years. Of course, by the time you're 80, there will be 65 more years of new books, so by then, you're dealing with 315 years of books, which allows you to read about 20 books from each year. You can hit the highlights, and you can specialize enough to become knowledgeable in some things, but most of what's out there, you'll have to ignore. Oh, and heaven help your kid, who will either have to throw out maybe 30 years of what you deemed most critical or be even more selective than you had to be. It's undoubtedly true; there are things that fade. Culling is the choosing you do for yourself.
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. In our decades of life, we’ve encountered thousands of objects and experiences. Here’s an example: Imaginary numbers. Argh. Negative numbers were distrusted until the 1700s: How could you have less than nothing? Instead of just going East/West, we can go North/South too – or even spin around in a circle. Analogies are fuzzy, not 100% accurate, and yet astoundingly useful. Diagram: Engage That Half Of Your Brain We often think diagrams are a crutch if you aren’t macho enough to directly interpret the symbols. So, here’s a visualization: Example: Let Me Experience The Idea Nope. so Prof.
How to be Successful in life, How to teach yourself Anything I Don’t know how to Do it One of the most important skills you should posses if you want to succeed in life is the ability to teach yourself anything. Life in the 21st century is far different than it used to be in the early times. Nowadays if you don’t posses some skills you can easily get swept by others who know more than you or who can do more than you could do. You may lose a job interview because you a miss a certain skill, you may lose an important piece of information because you don’t understand the language its written in, you may be left behind because you don’t know how to use computers or you may fail to succeed just because you miss the required social or professional skill. The False beliefs about self learning Over the time many of us have built very strong false beliefs about our ability to self learn, these beliefs are as follows: These false beliefs will keep you away from learning hundreds of things that you could have learned on your own without much effort.
Stop Setting Goals. Start Planning Your Life. – GovLoop - Knowledge Network for Government I recently finished a book called "Becoming a Coaching Leader" by Daniel Harkavy. What I liked about it was that it walks you through a series of exercises that help you think about your life and your career a bit more intentionally. Most books of this ilk just talk about leadership traits or a goal setting process, but few help you align your time and energy so that you can actually optimize your time and energy for what's most important to you in a way that sticks. One of the exercises that I wanted to recommend for your consideration was the creation of a Life Plan. Here's what Harkavy has to say about life planning vs the more traditional goal setting process: Many people substitute goal setting for life planning, but I think it's a bad trade-off. So how does life planning work? 1. Who do you want to be remembered by? 2. SpouseChildrenOther Family MembersFinanceSelf DevelopmentFriendsCommunity / Charitable ActivityFaithHealth 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. What were the results?