The main problems in learning
Neither at school nor at the institute do they teach us how to study the material correctly. We are preparing for exams and learning tickets. We train ourselves to solve repetitive problems in order to do better on a test, but often in the end this does not give us real knowledge. Cramming quickly disappears and does not benefit.
Conclusion: you also need to be able to learn, but for some reason this is not taught anywhere. What to do with it?
Specific techniques and exercises help to change the approach to learning, make it effective and exciting. The same techniques are applied in the example of training in the Practicum.
Teaching Techniques
Five practices from Barbara Oakley
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Two kinds of attention
Deep knowledge arises by alternating between focused and diffuse thinking.
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Recall
Recall what you have learned - this will allow you to connect disparate portions of memory.
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Interleaving
Learn several skills at the same time, they enrich each other.
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Questions
As you listen to your teacher, come up with a good question that you really care about.
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Illusion of competence
Repeat to yourself, write it down, tell a friend: it just seems to you that you own a new topic.
Video on TED
For those who like to procrastinate
The Barbara Oakley Story.
Since childhood, Barbara was not given mathematics. She considered herself a complete humanist, and far from being the smartest. In the army, she studied Russian to get a raise, so successfully that she was promoted to commander. But for promotion, you had to take math. And then Barbara came up with her own approach to the exact sciences. It turned out that if something is "badly given" to you, your knowledge gained by labor is much deeper than that of those to whom everything is clear at first sight.
Feynman method
Learn and don't forget.
More →Figures and facts
About learning and the brain
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86 billion
The number of neurons in the human brain
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2.1 billion
Number of people in need of advanced training
World Bank, 2017
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1000 terabytes
Human memory capacity
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500 trillion
The number of neural synapses responsible for learning in an adult
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420 million
Number of adults under the age of 25 without education for employment
World Bank, 2017
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17–20 years old
Peak Learnability
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1885
Opening the Forgetting Curve
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1889
Discovery of the conditioned reflex
Salman Khan
The whole world is a school
Sala Khan's passion and innovation is transforming the learning experience for millions of students around the world. All the World is a School should be read by all those involved in education so that students everywhere can gain skills and knowledge that bring success in school, career and life.
George Lucas
Learning principles
by Josh Kaufman
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Choose an attractive project.
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Focus on one skill.
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Determine your target skill level.
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Break down skill into elements.
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Prepare everything you need for class.
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Eliminate barriers to exercise.
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Set aside dedicated time for practice.
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Create fast feedback loops.
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Exercise on a schedule, in short, intense intervals.
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10
Pay attention to quantity and speed.
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