Comments on: Make study more effective, the easy way

By: styruu

styruu — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 11:09:51 +0000

This seems to support more of an inside-out approach to educating rather than the traditional outside-in approach. This makes sense. It is more efficient. On the other hand, there might be instances when an individual could benefit from meta organizational skills, learning how to learn. Not a focus on content, but on process.

By: London Penland

London Penland — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 19:12:43 +0000

This will probably never be seen but here I go… I am currently a second semester senior in college about to go off to medical school. I personally have always had a love of learning, something that has been severely damaged over the years due to school. I also have been teaching SI classes since my sophomore year. (which for those of you who are up to date on advances in college education, SI stands for Supplemental Instruction, and these sessions are usually taught by students who have performed extremely well in the respective class and taught with techniques based upon the research in this article). I have taught 8 semesters of SI (including the current semester) and was so successful, that I became the first ever SI leader at my college to teach SI over the summer, and actually taught two classes thereby making it a full time job (40+ hrs/wk) all summer long. On a scale of very traditional teaching to very nontraditional teaching (based on this type of research), I have dealt with professors at both extremes and everything in between and from my experience there is something that needs to be SERIOUSLY addressed before colleges move away from their traditional teaching. For one, this “new method” is based on the assumption that students want to learn. Unfortunately, myself and many students like me, who maybe originally desired knowledge have been so beaten down by our institutions that all we care about know is our GPA because we believe that it equals money down the road and that we will never reach our aspirations unless we do perfect in our classes. I have a 3.9+ (out of 4.0) GPA, tons of credentials on my resume, and a type A personality but I still stressed day in and day out if I would make it into medical school. Students don’t want to learn the material, they want the material feed to them so they can ace the test. I think professors have blown this off too much and this issue needs a solution.

By: Jacob Davis

Jacob Davis — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 03:17:13 +0000

I have been having troubles with social studies but thanks to you I got a A+. Thank you very much sir you have helped me very much and I will look for this.

Signed:Jacob Richard Davis
Age 11 city:Warroad Minnesota

Thanks

By: ASIFALI

ASIFALI — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 06:27:08 +0000

It is not amazing that every one’s level of deep processing and memorization is different. but where there intentional processing and having more importance there are more chances that every ones’ level of processing and memorization may become relativily equal.

By: Annonymous

Annonymous — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 14:54:30 +0000

Perhaps I wasn’t reading carefully enough or what-not. But I have realised that this article doesn’t actually teach me HOW to study more effectively. It only showed me the statistics of different ways of learning. I want to know HOW

By: Chris Horne

Chris Horne — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 02:04:32 +0000

So glad this is brought up with such clarity. It’s obvious the effort to shift teaching methods to complement learning modes will require lots of energy. I recently interviewed Win Wenger and learned that 300 upstate NY students successfully “learn” 4 years of academic material in one year. They are using techniques pioneered by Win (look-up Project Renaissance), which essentially increase intelligence by including more of what students already know and by using student-based feedback, an essential process for meaningful learning. BTW, Mind Hacks is a supreme connection!

By: petit cerveau

petit cerveau — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 20:02:37 +0000

I completely agree! I’m studying to become a teacher and also majoring in psychology. What’s interesting is that the classes I do the best in are the ones where the professor randomly calls on students to answer questions. As scary is that is sometimes, it allows students to be active and challenges them to think. I actually learned about this study in my Cognitive Psychology class, and to no surprise, the professor of that class always asks us what the material we just learns means to us. Needless to say, i’ve retained almost everything we’ve learned so far (which is very helpful as finals are next week)! Great article!

By: adrian

adrian — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 01:29:06 +0000

well your brain is using the rule of 7′s to remember that 7 digit number when you repeat it in your head over and over. this won’t work with a list of items longer than 7-9 or so

By: David

David — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 21:09:51 +0000

Hello. I like this article. I would like just to say that I can compare two different ways of learning and also maybe teaching. I normaly study in Czech Republic but now I study in Finland. In Czech we usualy get materials and we can just highlight what we consider as important in the materials. Here in Finland we get only some basic structure in Powerpoint (which is used during lessons) and questions for exams. Then we have to look up all the answers on our own. Of course it takes longer time but I think I remember more and sometimes I escape somewhere into related topic in the area of question and I enjoy the question finally.

By: Make study more effective, the easy way « Mind Hacks « headbirths

Make study more effective, the easy way « Mind Hacks « headbirths — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 07:41:17 +0000

[...] ≈ Leave a Comment This means you need to think about what you are trying to remember means, both in relationship to other material you are trying to learn, and to yourself. Other research in memory has shown the importance of schema – memory patterns and structures – for recall. As teachers, we try and organise our course material for the convenience of students, to best help them understand it. Make study more effective, the easy way « Mind Hacks. [...]